I’m in a 21-year age gap relationship, we met when I was 19 & moved in together in weeks – now we have a baby too
A WOMAN has revealed how she met her husband, who is 21 years her senior.
US-based Iyah, who was just 19 years old when she met her husband, seems to be urging others to follow her lead into an age gap relationship.
In a recent video she shared on social media, Iyah said getting with Rafah, who was 21 years older than her at 45 was a dream come true.
She said: "Don't mean to be a bad influence, but we met when I was 19 and he was 41.
"Three weeks later, I moved in, eight months later, he proposed and now we are married with a baby."
"This is your sign," she captioned the video where the pair made heart symbols with their hands and kissed for their followers.
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The pair first met when Iyah was just 19 and was working in a bar.
In a, Rafah said: "I thought she was older because she was out in a bar but she wasn’t.”
Iyah said: “I didn’t know how old he was when we started hanging out, we just started hanging out.
“I was working as a waitress and I keep seeing this guy staring at me.”
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She revealed that they exchanged numbers that night and hasn't left his side since.
Rafah even has a daughter who is just one year younger than his wife but he doesn't see them as the same age.
“People talking about us being together and them being the same age. It’s not like I had her with me growing up and having friends her age hanging around me.
“I wasn’t looking for a woman that young, it just happened that way.”
Iyah added: “He wasn’t going around looking for younger women. We met, I was legal, we didn’t even know each other’s age. Boom, we fell in love and now I’m engaged.”
The pair now regularly make social media videos based on their relationship and their recent clip share don their TikTok account @quickly went viral.
A-list age gap relationships that have stood the test of time
- Kris Jenner & Corey Gamble - 25 years
The Kardashian matriarch, 69, met her younger man, 44, at a mutual friend's 40th birthday party in Ibiza. They've been together since August 2014. - Sam & Aaron Taylor-Johnson - 23 years
The director, 57, and actor, 34, reportedly met at a film audition in 2009, and were married by 2012. The pair share two daughters and Sam has two children from a previous marriage. - Rosie-Huntington-Whiteley & Jason Statham - 20 years
The model, 37, started dating actor Jason, 57, in 2010. They were wed in 2016 and have since welcomed a son and a daughter together. - Catherine Zeta-Jones & Michael Douglas - 25 years
Catherine, 55, was introduced to Michael, 80, a film festival in 1996 and engaged three years later. Shortly after their engagement, the couple welcomed a son and married in 2000.
Despite the pair being happily in love, many were concerned by the age gap.
One person wrote: "I wish you the best, sweetie, but if a 41-year-old man was circling my 19-year-old daughter he would regret it."
Another commented: “This is your sign' my sign to what? Call the cops?"
"I'm 43 and my son is 20. He could be your Dad. That's weird," penned a third.
Meanwhile, others were happy for the couple, a fourth said: "As someone who remarried - the best thing I did second time around - was marrying someone older."
"Wishing them the very best in life because it’s very short, nothing wrong here to see,” claimed a fifth.
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Someone else added: “Wishing you guys a lifetime of happiness."
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