kawazuki- I had no idea that you were 25 and your DH is 39 (even though its in your sig i was still oblivious ) i see a lot of couples that the other half is older which is great. As most people would know my DP is 6 years older than me and we have faced some very judgemental people and found ourselves to be judged quite badly. Hes copped it all... cradel snatcher, pedo..etc and hes never cared he said why should age get in the way of love. People gave us 1 month they said i was going through a 'phase' and then when it lasted longer it was when i turn 18 i'll wake and go "what the hell am i thinking" and then when that didn't happen our friends stopped talking to us.... I was ruining my life, i wouldnt get to live like all of them (their idea of living is going out every weekend hooking up..) everyone assumed we would be one of 'those' couples that had children early not have a career and basically be welfare scum (as DP politely puts it) but here we are 6 years later, while yes our relationship isn't as strong as we would like but we have each other and we love our DD very much. We have just let things happen, we moved into our first place together 18 months ago and have a 2 month old bub and when she is 3/4 we are going to get married.

Thankfully now people don't see our age difference they assume i am his age and are shocked when i say i am 21. And no age doesn't have any affect on how you parent. I know of great teenage parents and not so great ones and the other way around.