I am dating a wonderful man who just happens to be 44 years old. His birthday and mine is just 3 days apart, so this year he'll turn 45 just 3 days after I turn 26. Oh yeah... and our ages are 19 years apart. Now, as you can tell, I will be the first to agree that age is just a number, but you notice some major differences. He is from a different time than I am.
You can still see the remenants of a strong family bond that used to be taken for granted years ago in the way his family functions. You can see the standards for how a man should treat a woman and how a husband should treat a wife in his actions towards me and other ladies he comes in contact with. He stands up for what he believes in and he knows when to say "yes sir" and show respect to someone else's opinion. He has a very strong work ethic and that is still another remenant of years gone by.
Too often these days, people look for the easy way out, they give in, follow the crowd, True gentlemen are hard to find and honest respect is a commodity. In a world where family units are falling apart, sex-drugs-rocknroll-money-alcohol-partying, and the easy route is what sells and runs the world, finding a man like this is rare. It is also a sense of culture shock.
Alot of times we listen to similar music, like similar movies, and like alot of the same stuff but once in a while its fun to take him on a flash back to when I was in highschool or even middle school. Play him a song that just makes him scratch his head and wonder. Its even more fun to do it in the summer while we drive down the street with the windows open and his friends are able to witness his "hillbilly pickup" roll down the road with "Baby Got Back" blaring out of the open windows and an hysterical female rolling with laughter in the passenger seat at the confused middle-aged man in
the driver's seat. Talk about a generation gap in love! :))
