‘It left me with a terrible message’: Readers on how age-gap relationships have shaped them

Many pushed back on the idea that adult children should have any say at all in their parents relationships. A happy union between two consenting adults, they argued, is nobody else’s business but theirs – whatever the age gap. Here’s what you had to say:A terrible message about a woman’s valueMy father left my mum for someone 30 years his junior. It left me with a terrible message about how men decide a woman’s value and that they have a shelf life. When two people meet, and if there is a perceived age gap, then let them carry on with their own lives.