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age difference
Coverage of age difference in the Nexus archive.
- My partner is 17 years older than me. I've started doing 'grief math' when I think about our future.
The author, in a 17-year age-gap relationship, reflects on 'grief math' as she contemplates her partner's mortality after her mother died at 69. They moved to Italy together, but she struggles with anxiety about caregiving and being alone in the future.