My husband is 10 years older than me. The age gap was noticeable when we first started parenting, but now I see it as an asset.

• When I met my now-husband I was 19 and he was 29. • Initially, our age gap highlighted differences in life experiences and parenting styles. • A decade later, these differences are no longer a source of friction.

I met my now-husband and father of my children when I was only 19, still a sophomore in college, living with my parents. He was 29, living in a home he owned, operating his own business, and was already a father to a 3-year-old son.

In the greenest part of our relationship, our age difference was most evident in the way our minds worked. Mine was still learning how to be an adult, while he had a firm grasp on who he was. He was actively raising a child, and I had just been one myself a few years prior.

Still, I fell right into loving and parenting his son with him. Three