return MaxDeltaBetween(Husband, Wife);
So, for the zillionth time I ask myself, what should be the maximum tolerable age difference between a man and a woman who form a couple? Now, it's obious that the question is not an easy one.
Many times I tried to find the answer, but either I failed, or I found an answer which I didn't like.
1 year? 2 years? Mmmm.. that's ok at any instance of time.
3 to 5 years? Well, that might be ok, provided that both are at least 18 years of age, and preferably 20, so that they know what they're doing.
A friend of mine says "dude, if it's 5 years, assume it's 0".
Statistically, everyone I asked seems to hang around delta=10.
So, 10 years of age difference are not a big deal, as soon as both are adults; because it is obvious that when he's 20 and she's 10 - it's not a real couple :-)
One of the results of my previous attempts to solve this puzzle was the following conclusion: The older you are, the less significant delta is. Translation: If he's 25 and she's 20, delta=5 is ok; if he's 30 and she's 25, then consider there's no delta at all... but if he's 20 and she's 15, we got a code-yellow situation here.
So, what have I found except "time decreases the significance of delta"?
And then come the other questions:
- Who 's older than who?
- Is MaxDeltaBetween the same for 'both ways'?
- Are there other factors that should be included in the formula? (you bet: money, education, pycho, philo, etc)
Where do I start?
vlad — 2005-10-19 20:18
What i can say above this subject? Sometimes when
u are happy with a certain person u say:
"It doesn't matter the age of my dear!"In such cases your partner can be like a daughter or son
4 u or even a parent.And 4 u other opinion doesn't
matter.But elder u become u see that MaxDeltaBetween partners is also a problem.I think
if really love exist between partners then this is
really a subject to discuss,but when in their relation persist another ineterests such as:money,politik function then many of us don't look at it's partner's age.
From my point of view i think the should be taken into consideration by boths.When both parners are
adults and they get the minimum in their life and they know exactly what are their plans 4 future their difference can be a big one(let's say DeltaMax),but when 2 youngers want to marry if their age differnce is 2 big then it's a realy problem,cause after a year or 2 of living together
when they'll become really adults morally(not just physically)in many cases they divorce cause of different reasons:their finally outlookings don't have any tangent points or their interests doesn't don't concide.
And if a person is adult formed it'll surely know
what's the optimal age difference between it and the opposite one.
From my point of view the admisible age differnece
can be:6-7 years(when man is elder than woman and his age<=22<=30)and 2 years(when woman is elder)and her 23<=age<=26).
Other opinions???