I’m 26 and my man is 54 – we met on YouTube and married after three months – people say it won’t work but we’re in love
A COUPLE with a 28-year age gap, who married just three months after meeting on YouTube, have defended their relationship.
Recruiter Sarah Henderson, 26, and pet expert Darin, 54, began chatting at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in October 2020 after he saw a comment she’d left on a video, and quickly struck up a friendship.
While neither of them had been looking for a relationship at the time, their friendship soon blossomed into something more, with the pair meeting in person for the first time in November 2020.
By January 2021, they were engaged, after Sarah popped the question, and they married on 20 January 2021.
Now, they are happily living together in Missouri, and have so far proved their critics wrong.
“Some people immediately say it will never work – that Darin will get old and I will have to take care of him or he will die and leave me alone, but those things can happen in any relationship,” Sarah said.
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“How many people have married someone of the same age, only to lose that person to cancer or a car accident?
“We say you can’t go into a relationship worrying about what could go wrong, but should enjoy every moment and appreciate the time you have together.
“When I’m with him, I don’t see or feel the age difference. I just see someone with the same values as me and the same purpose.
“I’m glad to be with someone who wants the same things as me and dreams as big as me. The future is bright with Darin.”
The couple are now hoping to use their YouTube channel to break the stigma surrounding age gap relationships.
“We would love to be on TV and have applied for shows such as the Amazing Race, in an effort to present age gap relationships in a positive way,” she said.
“We also want to host a show featuring other age gap couples and success stories to normalise relationships like ours.”
As for the advice she’d give to anyone else in a relationship with someone significantly older or younger than them, Sarah said: “Don’t give in to haters or negativity.
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“Don’t fall for the argument that your love and your relationship is somehow ‘wrong’ or ‘weird’, and remember to live every day proving the haters wrong.
“True love doesn’t see age, any more than it sees race, religion, gender or political differences. Love is love.”
