The Age of Marriage
The Age of Marriage
In the previous issue, we spoke about the age of marriage, and how it must be the age of maturity and bearing responsibility. Today we continue our discussion about:
The Age of Marriage – 2 –
The man should be older than the woman.
There is no doubt that the first marriage that occurred in history was so: Adam was older than Eve, at least because he was created first. Thus the Lord established a principle…
Likewise, the woman loves to find in the man: manhood, protection, counsel, and a personality that surpasses hers and can be a head. She also sees in him fatherhood.
And this cannot be available unless the man is older in age and stronger in personality, so that he can be the head of a family. If the man is younger than the woman, she will consider him as an older son to her, caring for him in a spirit of motherhood, and she will continue to miss the strong personality which she used to see in her father, and which she thought the husband would compensate for.
If the spouses are close in age, a kind of stubbornness may exist between them, and the wife may lose obedience, and the man may feel that he does not find respect for his opinion, because his wife does not consider him more mature than herself.
For this reason, the marriage of classmates from university students often fails. It may happen that the wife is the stronger personality, and she continues to consider her husband merely a colleague, nothing more…
The only exception is that the husband be of an ideal type whose personality, strength, mind, and management surpass his age by stages.
Some suggest that the difference be about 7 years or slightly more. For example, the wife may be 23 and the husband 30, or she around 25 and he 33.
Our father Abraham was 10 years older than Sarah (Gen. 17:17).
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