medievaloid

— As to the age difference between husbands and wives, which is essentially based on the patriarchal tradition that the man is the “senior” in the home, it will probably disappear in the case of all forms of marriage other than the classic familistic one; there, where people have explicitly decided that the kind of marriage they want is the same as their parents had back in the medievaloid 1970s, or the ancient 1960s, the husband will continue to be a few years older than his wife.