Voices: There’s a reason we love to talk about age-gap relationships

Nothing gets the group chat going quite like an age gap. Whether it’s a balding politician wheeling out his second 25-year-old girlfriend of the year, or a divorced mother of two canoodling with a man half her age, people with partners significantly younger or older than them are a perpetual conversation starter.

Men who date younger women are , while the women become gold diggers. And in the reverse scenario, the older women are