Congrats to everyone's good news!!
I try to be positive, especially as our journey has not quite begun yet and sometimes it is so hard. Cannot imagine what it will be like when app is sent! Most days I feel good and confident that we will be fine but then sometimes I read other threads and hyperventilate. Usually when someone talks about it being harder if the woman is older than the man, if there are differences in their life experiences (which should be if one is older!) etc...
I am 35, he is 23 and we have been together almost 2 yrs and are so happy! He has lived with me coming up on 2 yrs in August. I am divorced, he has never been married. We have leases in our names, bank etc. Pictures (although we don't get to travel a lot, one income and all that). But we DO have a 3 yr plan. Get married. Get first stage approval so he can work. Get PR. Save money (i.e. continue to live off my salary and save his). Put him through school to finish his Welding ticket. Get welding job. Put me through school to finish my courses. LIVE!
*fingers crossed* we get an open minded IO that can look past the ages and see the love and life we want to build. Sigh.