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Excellently put, Bracken. Also, large age differences in marriage were more common in the 19th century. In the Middle Ages, marriages were most commonly between women in their late teens and men in their early twenties. It was actually pretty rare for women to be married very young to much...

Oh god I forgot about Elayne and Thom. That was weird :lol

Fair :P Although with Nynaeve I've always suspected there was a bit of "holy crap this is the first guy I've ever met who isn't from my village and is either married or a teenager"

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean we can't question it, though. It was written by a real person who made choices.

Also this, it's always seemed underdeveloped :cheese I wish we had gotten to see them interact more before FoH.

For real though, I'm 25 and my dad is 50. I cannot imagine myself falling in love with someone who is essentially my dad's age. That doesn't seem reasonable at all to me? I don't know. I think if it was just the one, it wouldn't even be a thing I thought about, because their respective ages make...

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I can't remember/it was probably a long time ago. But I'm finally working on my reread again and am on Knife of Dreams, and it bothers me throughout the series that Jordan seems to perpetually ship his female characters with men much older than them...