jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 4 months agoChristina Sandera, Clint Eastwood's longtime partner, dies at 61www.usatoday.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1151arrow-down113
arrow-up1138arrow-down1external-linkChristina Sandera, Clint Eastwood's longtime partner, dies at 61www.usatoday.comjeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squaremagic_smoke@links.hackliberty.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up32arrow-down2·edit-24 months agoAge gaps work different when you’re older, especially at or past your middle age. 15-20 years difference at 50 isn’t necessarily normal but its not unhealthy. Both people have been adults for the majority of their lifetime. On the other hand if someone in their mid 20’s dated a decade younger, they’d end up in prison for statutory rape. Its not the number of years, its the difference of where they are in life.
minus-squareZaktor@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down4·4 months ago10 years ago, when Sandera was 51, Eastwood was 84. This doesn’t seem like a long term relationship so much as an investment which unfortunately never paid off for her. They certainly weren’t planning to grow old together.
Age gaps work different when you’re older, especially at or past your middle age.
15-20 years difference at 50 isn’t necessarily normal but its not unhealthy. Both people have been adults for the majority of their lifetime.
On the other hand if someone in their mid 20’s dated a decade younger, they’d end up in prison for statutory rape.
Its not the number of years, its the difference of where they are in life.
10 years ago, when Sandera was 51, Eastwood was 84. This doesn’t seem like a long term relationship so much as an investment which unfortunately never paid off for her. They certainly weren’t planning to grow old together.