What everyone else has said. I met my sweet Princess when she'd recently turned 22 and I was already 31, making us nine years apart. Nobody really batted an eyelid.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'