What's Weird About Your Family?

[Pat Mustard]

I am eight years older than my husband.  It's weird...

I'm nine years older than my wife, works for us (35 years in December)
One weird thing, we had to wait for her divorce to get finalised before we could marry...  didn't realise until years later that they spelled her name wrong on the original paperwork and she was never legally married in the first place!

The husband being older is quite common. Tradition in large parts of rural Ireland was that a farmer's eldest son wouldn't marry until he inherited the farm. As a result you'd quite regularly see married couples where the groom was up to twenty years older than his bride.