Dating a guy four years younger

Pop star Shakira is involved with a man 10 years her junior.

Actor Hugh Jackman has been married to Deborra-Lee Furness for 17 years. A recent article in magazine looked at a handful of real-life May-December romances, focusing mainly on those between older women and younger men.

The 20-something gays are more bold, more aggressive and much more self-aware than previous generations.

Just keep in mind that there is almost a 20 year age difference, so while he's rockin' to Taylor Swift, you're humming The Commodores.

But that fear has forced her to come up with her own solution to the issue. ’ Your answer could be, ‘I’m going to get a facelift.’ My answer is, ‘I’m going to be such a beautiful person inside that it’s going to shine through to the outside,'” she told the magazine.

Though men have been enjoying May-December romances forever, women haven’t been afforded the same freedom necessarily.

Culturally, the older woman/younger man dynamic is perceived as an oddity, or a fluke.

To date someone younger is to consciously reject a lot of this.

For this reason, being a woman with a younger partner is often viewed in a negative light. We can fight this totally gross line of thinking by agreeing to view younger people that we have chemistry as real possible partners — and by not constantly "joking" about any woman we know who happens to have a younger partner.