The age gap does not matter when there is mental maturity, love, understanding and compatibility. Vatsyayanas Kamasutra prescribes a three- year age gap. In the old, the age gap could be 10 to 15 years. Because of the complete acceptance and devotion of the wife, such marriages almost always worked well.

How much older should a man be than his wife?

The distribution of all persons in the data set by age gap to the spouse is presented in Figure 2. It shows that most men are between two and three years older than their wives, while most women are two years younger than their husbands.