I was 21 when I met my future husband. He was 42. We're not divorced but it wasn't because of the age difference. It was because we were in different places in our lives.

I'm now 29, my boyfriend is 24 - - - OK, it's not the eight-year difference you asked for :P but it's a change from an older man. Age doesn't have much to do with love if you ask me. Values are more important. Both men I've just mentioned were raised Catholic, too. Same type of family life . . . no matter the age, similarities in other aspects of life probably make the biggest impact.