Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
214,537
edits
May-December Romance: Difference between revisions
m
no edit summary
mNo edit summary |
|||
Line 22:
Generally, the man is the "December" (elder) and the woman is the "May" (younger), though it can happen the other way around. This can sometimes be a [[Double Standard]] in Hollywood, as while older actors get paired up with younger actresses, it doesn't happen so often in reverse. May lead to cases of [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]] if the years haven't been kind to him. This is the romantic version of the [[Intergenerational Friendship]]. A "lite" version, in which only a few years separate the couple, may be called a May/September romance.
Keep in mind that for a true
Quite obviously [[Truth in Television]], or else we probably wouldn't have a well-known phrase for it. In older periods, before romance became a major part of marriage and courtship, it was even more common. Men would try to become economically established before marrying, while women would (due both to fertility being higher at a young age, and motherhood being the primary female occupation) get married much younger. Ten to fifteen years' difference would have been considered normal.
| |||