There is a 12 year gap between us. I am now 34 and he is 46. We have been dating since I was 27 and he was almost 39. I have never been in a long-term relationship and I guess I have old values – I believe you should love someone before you have sex or not (married or not, doesn’t matter). My husband was the first man I ever met that I have loved. I have had a very dramatic childhood that kept me away from men for a number of years until my husband – my friend at that time – told me to go to therapy. It changed my life….