Happiness for young and old
Couples with a significant age difference
Why does a very young woman love an aging man who has had his best days several years ago? An inner weakness and insecurity and the lack of experienced true love is what brings these couples together - this is what psychologists say. The couples themselves often refer to their common interest and that age doesn’t matter. There are many examples of couples, politicians and celebrities, who live in relationships with a distinct difference in age. Franz Müntefering, the chairman of the SPD, recently introduced his new partner. She is 40 years younger. Helmut Kohl is also married to a remarkably younger woman. Heiner Lauterbach, a famous German actor, Joschka Fischer and Sky Dumont they all share a relationship with women who are 20 years younger. Biologists dedicated to the exploration of reproduction think that this combination of old and young is reasonable, because the physical freshness and on the other hand the life experience and genetic material give the best opportunities for the development of a new born child.
In this documentary film we attend two couples with a distinct age difference and show the
pleasant and difficult sides of such a relationship.
