[krageon]

Criticism from whom? If it's your friends, get better friends. Other than that, it might be family - which is easily explained as jealousy (any success at all tends to get that response). Am I missing some hypothetical case where someone criticises you about the age of your partner and their opinion somehow matters?

[hutzlibu]

I did not ask for life advice, I was stating the fact, that nowdays age disparity seems to be frowned upon and provided a anecdotical data point.

[krageon]

It wasn't life advice, I was walking through my thought process towards asking why this is relevant. Which you have not addressed.

[hutzlibu]

"why this is relevant."

Erm, because I live in this society, so the social norms of this society do affect me and well, everyone else in it. I thought that is obvious.