This is a very outdated notion that I hope is disappearing in most areas. I believe it comes from the days of a male dominated society when we so brilliantly ignored the skills and talents of half of our population. People equate age with experience and experience with the knowledge to lead. An older person, in earlier times, was expected to know more than a younger person. It would not be proper to put a man in a position where his wife might know more and be the more logical person to lead. This would somehow take away the man’s identity. If he wasn’t the king of his castle then who was he? If his wife even had the appearance of being the more experienced and more knowledgeable one then he was not the man he should be. As the old saying goes, he wasn’t wearing the pants in the family.

Of course there is always interest if the age difference is large, but this is not just based on the woman being older. You will still get smirks when people here of these cases. The terms gigolo and trophy wife will be batted around but, in truth, I think people may be a little jealous of the older person in question.

It actually makes more sense for the woman to be older. In general a woman will live longer than a man and having the woman being the older in the marriage would even that playing field a bit.

Most men have long since gotten over the need to be and appear as the dominate member of a relationship. Once our gender came to its senses we realized that having an equal partner is far better than pretending our partner isn’t capable.

As long as both people are adults, it isn't anyone's business how they make their relationship work. Relative ages, sexual choice, and other personal choices need to be respected. We have so many other serious problems. We don’t have the time or the justification to be worrying about the decisions made by to consenting adults.