A 28-YEAR-OLD woman whose fiance is 53 insists they “don’t even notice” their age gap.
Cara, 28, and Kerensa, 53, are due to tie the knot in August, and have been documenting their romance on their TikTok page.
Their big age gap does open them up to criticism and judgement, with people even mistaking Kerensa for Cara’s “nan”.
However, the pair do their best to ignore the haters and concentrate on their love for one another.
“Like everyone we do get trolls on TikTok,” they told Fabulous Online.
“However, you have to be strong and ignore the haters because we’re the ones living our age gap relationship – it works for us and we’re both the happiest we have ever been.
“On TikTok we often get ‘is that your daughter?’ or ‘is that your nan?.'”
Another situation which infuriated the pair was when they went to a wedding fayre, and everyone assumed it was “Cara getting married”.
“The people showing of their stalls would automatically assume it was Cara getting married, and hand her bouquets to hold,” they sighed.
“When we would have to say it was us both as a couple to almost everyone, this got very annoying.”
The relationship was the first gay romance for mum-of-four Kerensa, and the first time Cara had dated an older woman.
And because of the taboos often surrounding an age-gap romance, the couple were somewhat nervous about what their family would say – especially as Cara is the same age as Kerensa’s youngest daughter.
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“We were both pleasantly surprised that our friends embraced it and so did most of our family,” Kerensa explained.
“My eldest son found it a little hard to get his head round it at first, but he has come to terms with it.
“And the grandchildren all know Cara and me both as their ‘Nanny’.”
The couple are also planning on starting their own family together, with Cara carrying the baby.
Cara also responded to questions about how she feels being the same age as her fiancée’s daughter, by sharing a video of herself and the woman enjoying a meal together.
“So your girlfriend is the same age as your child?” one person commented on a video of the couple answering their “most asked questions”.
To which Cara responded in the caption to her video response: “Yes, and we get on very well.”
“Sometimes the comments can get too much, but at the end of the day it’s Kerensa and myself in this relationship, and we’re the ones who are the happiest we have been,” Cara told us.
“We have a 25 year age gap but we don’t notice it.
“Kerensa says it’s like she’s having her life again and her life has begun at 50 and like she’s been given a new lease of life.
“She’s looking forward to all the adventures still and the excitement of us having our own little family together – and everything that comes with us being parents together.”
