![]() "God Almighty, I look as if I'm at El Alamein," said my 63-year-old husband, who's 15 years my senior. ![]() I bring him home some handsome knee-skimmers or board shorts, perhaps drawstring, perhaps cargo style, and he immediately looks cornered and starts talking about Boy Scouts. Such things influence your life.Ĭlothes, though, are the biggest difference. For pudding as a child I had the choice of Angel Delight or yoghurt. My husband David was issued with a ration book as a child. You are children of different times and cultures. ![]() Still, being married to an older man is different, even without the memory of a mad previous wife in the attic hanging over you. Luckily, 19th century dress rules mean she won't have the embarrassment of that male fashion foible known only to age-gap wives - the rule that says the older the man, the shorter the shorts.Įven as Rochester ages and those breeches, now tightly strained across thigh and saddle, get a bit baggy, at least things will be covered up. Now that we're all waiting, breathless, for Jane Eyre to say 'Reader, I married him' (I'm not spoiling any surprises here, I hope), how do you think she'll cope with being married to a man twice her age? Jane's about 18 Rochester is pushing 40.
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