Are Age Gap Relationships Better For Women?
As usual when an age-gap relationship ends, the demise of the Amanda Holden-Les Dennis marriage (17 years between them) was met with a loud chorus of 'I-told-you-so'.
It doesn't seem to matter how wise we all are to the fact that age-gap relationships are unlikely to last; there will always be plenty of couples with a generation or more between them who want to give it a go.
Perhaps most interesting at the end of the Amanda-Les partnership was how differently they reacted.
She was seen out and about with girlfriends, partying, shopping, looking radiant. He disappeared to spend time with friends, presumably to lick his wounds in private.
All this seems to indicate that age-gap relationships have very different effects on men and women.
Do the sexes expect - and get - different benefits from being...