A WOMAN has revealed how she met her husband, who is 21 years her senior.
US-based Iyah, who was just 19 years old when she met her husband, seems to be urging others to follow her lead into an age gap relationship.
In a recent video she shared on social media, Iyah said getting with Rafah, who was 21 years older than her at 45 was a dream come true.
She said: “Don’t mean to be a bad influence, but we met when I was 19 and he was 41.
“Three weeks later, I moved in, eight months later, he proposed and now we are married with a baby.”
“This is your sign,” she captioned the video where the pair made heart symbols with their hands and kissed for their followers.
The pair first met when Iyah was just 19 and was working in a bar.
In a YouTube video, Rafah said: “I thought she was older because she was out in a bar but she wasn’t.”
Iyah said: “I didn’t know how old he was when we started hanging out, we just started hanging out.
“I was working as a waitress and I keep seeing this guy staring at me.”
She revealed that they exchanged numbers that night and hasn’t left his side since.
Rafah even has a daughter who is just one year younger than his wife but he doesn’t see them as the same age.
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“I wasn’t looking for a woman that young, it just happened that way.”
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The pair now regularly make social media videos based on their relationship and their recent clip share don their TikTok account @rafal_and_iyah quickly went viral.
Despite the pair being happily in love, many were concerned by the age gap.
One person wrote: “I wish you the best, sweetie, but if a 41-year-old man was circling my 19-year-old daughter he would regret it.”
Another commented: “This is your sign’ my sign to what? Call the cops?”
“I’m 43 and my son is 20. He could be your Dad. That’s weird,” penned a third.
Meanwhile, others were happy for the couple, a fourth said: “As someone who remarried – the best thing I did second time around – was marrying someone older.”
“Wishing them the very best in life because it’s very short, nothing wrong here to see,” claimed a fifth.
Someone else added: “Wishing you guys a lifetime of happiness.”
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