Society has put some much emphasize on the age thing. I personally don't think it is an issue except it is far too extreme.

I have met a lady that was doubting the future of our relationship then because I am just a year older than her...I didn't see any fuss about that one but society has embedded a kind of 'your man must be considerably older than you' in her mentality. Age is one thing, maturity/understanding/endurance is another. To some, like me, age is a number, it a depends on the maturity/experience/understanding of whoever I am dealing. But to some the age difference must be 'society approved' or give them the illusion of maturity.

Too much importance has been giving to the age thing even in other spheres of our lives, which is why people choose to have an official age (or football age as we like to call it here) which is quite different from their real age.