00:00He had started saying, if you kiss me, you're going to fall in love.
00:04That's Michael's game.
00:05He's very friendly and open and he's going to tell you what's on his mind.
00:15I'm Gretchen and this is Michael.
00:17We're the Dylans.
00:18Hello.
00:19We have a 27 year age gap in our relationship.
00:22I was recently out of a long, ugly marriage.
00:31I started putting an Airbnb together for my house and get a manager for it.
00:35I came back into town one night and there was a car in the parking lot with the hood
00:41open and a young lady under the hood.
00:43And I asked her if she needed any help.
00:45Her head popped up from under the hood with a big, huge smile and told me, no, she was
00:49just adding oil to it.
00:50It wasn't a big deal.
00:51We ran across each other again in the dairy aisle.
00:55I was flirting with her and we just really just clicked.
00:59And it occurred to me that Gretchen might be a good candidate for my Airbnb.
01:04He just seemed happy and like he wanted to have conversations and he was very open.
01:08And so I was having fun talking to him.
01:11I remember texting my best friend that night and saying, I gave an older man my number
01:17and I don't know why.
01:18If I was 28, so you were probably 55.
01:27Gretchen moved in.
01:28It took several months before we actually started dating.
01:34We went and saw the symphony at an art gallery.
01:36I call that our first official date.
01:38He had started saying, if you kiss me, you're going to fall in love.
01:42I was not interested in turning this into a big mess of getting involved with somebody
01:48who I'm living with and running a business with.
01:51Called Michael to tell him that I was coming home and I was in a bad mood.
01:55And Michael said, I'll put in an order and get some wings and why don't you pick those
02:00up and we'll watch a movie.
02:02And I was just like, this is exactly what I wanted.
02:06And that's whenever I started thinking about that maybe the thing that I wanted looked
02:11different than I thought it would look.
02:12And she eventually, yeah, we got it on.
02:16I was not totally sure about what I was doing.
02:21Whenever we were sleeping together, I think that was like more official.
02:25There's a lot of vulnerability in that for me emotionally.
02:30And it wasn't until she kind of came to terms with it that, oh my God, it was like a flip,
02:36a switch that flipped and the sex became phenomenal.
02:41I do remember having a conversation that we were going to be dating and then we made it
02:46Facebook official.
02:47It felt really right.
02:53Oh, she lost friends.
02:56People, they feel really strongly about status quo and how things look.
03:01I had a friend that sat me down.
03:04She told me that I should not get married because it means I will definitely be a widow.
03:09And you'll be a hot widow.
03:10Yep.
03:11And actually the woman that was tailoring my wedding dress.
03:14Your parents have been nothing but warm.
03:16My dad embraced you, but my mom wasn't.
03:19Neither was your sister.
03:20It's going to be a subject.
03:22People meet us and it's going to be on their mind, you know, and they're going to have
03:26thoughts.
03:27But not long after they get to know us, that becomes a, you know, that just goes away.
03:32Unless they're ****, in which case they go away.
03:41We got married on Valentine's.
03:43He was like, how many times am I going to have to propose to you?
03:45And I was like, until you do it right.
03:47We had like a couple of health scares.
03:49Michael had a heart attack, which is, I think, one of the dangers of dating a much younger
03:54woman.
03:56I've been thinking about wanting a big adventure and I wanted to do something with you and
04:01that kids are a big adventure and let's do it.
04:06So we did it.
04:07Now we've got this cute little baby boy.
04:11She wants another.
04:12I would still say I'm not necessarily into older guys.
04:15It's just that Michael sneaks through my safety net of who I'm interested in because of his
04:21personality.
04:22And we both have sort of the freedom and safety to express ourselves and however we're feeling.
04:33I guess from day one, you knew you wanted to take it further.
04:36Holy mackerel.
04:37Yeah, when I started the dairy aisle, I wanted to take it right there.
04:42Yeah.
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