Many people doubt our relationship will work because of the age difference, but we do great together. Let's read along with W. B. Wolfe in his A Woman's Best Years.
Life is very short, and the precious minutes seep through the hourglass with unseemly haste.
All the more reason why you should put aside the bogeys and taboos that you accepted uncritically in your youth, and seek that which you need to fulfil your life. Seek it bravely. Do not defer living any longer. I can only outline some of the more dramatic ones to show you what can be done. I need not recall the thrilling life stories of such women as Florence Nightingale, Marie Curie, Helen Keller, Margaret Sanger, Jane Addams, Henrietta Szold, Edith Wharton, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Myra Hess, Eleanora Duse, Ernestine Schumann-Heink and countless others whose lives and works have added so generously to the sum total of human happiness.