@BigBlue..I have asked myself the same question many times. I too was involved in a relationship with someone much younger than myself, and honestly it was never an issue aside from providing some awkward moments for sales associates referring to me as my girlfriend’s father..the age difference was never an issue, at least so i thought. She recently ended the relationship of three years simply by texting her feelings had changed…I know since we both work at the same business it will be extremely difficult for me to see her, the first time we ran into each other she didn’t say hello, even though we were the only two in the hallway. To have shared every thought, every hope and dream of the future with someone and then have them pass you in the hall without even a hello is more than difficult-I know I will have to leave. But to sort of answer your question and the eternal question is it better to have love and lost than to never have loved at all, right now I would have to say I would rather never have loved as I loved her-while I wouldn’t know what life really could be, I also wouldn’t know how painful it can be, how it feels to lose everything and have your heart ripped from your chest. it’s really kind of funny, many of my past relationships have said I had a heart of stone, but it was really just armour built up over the years of seeing the true horrors of the world, what mankind is capable of doing to each other, of how man can behave, and on a personal level, how love can fail. So when I allowed that armour to be torn away and exposed my heart, I felt things I had never felt before…I allowed my heart to imagine a life with this woman, a future together….and now, after opening my heart, my heart is now empty, I have nothing left to give. I don’t want another relationship, even if she were to somehow change her mind.