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->George had been the kind of husband who was born to be betrayed. So much older--so devoid of the attractions necessary to hold an attractive and capricious woman. Had George himself been deceived? Stephen did not think so. George, he thought, knew Rosemary very well. He loved her, and he was the kind of man who was humble about his own powers of holding a wife's interest.

* Discussed in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun''. 51-year-old Stephen Steel's marriage to the 14-year-old Lucy was only to keep TheMafia from using her as a prostitute or SexSlave, and he made it clear to her that he had no intention of ever consummating it. He also told her that if she ever found someone closer to her own age when she was older, she'd be free to leave him, only asking that she avoid dating any gangsters. [[spoiler:Ironically, the [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion sequel series]] reveals that after Stephen's death, Lucy became a ConfirmedBachelor much like he was before marrying her.]]

* Discussed in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun''. 51-year-old Stephen Steel's marriage to the 14-year-old Lucy was only to keep TheMafia from using her as a prostitute or SexSlave, and he made it clear to her that he had no intention of ever consummating it. He also told her that if she ever found someone closer to her own age when she was older, she'd be free to leave him, only asking that she avoid dating any gangsters. [[spoiler:Ironically, the [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion sequel series]] revealed that after Stephen's death, Lucy became a ConfirmedBachelor much like he was before marrying her.]]

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' Through flashbacks we learn [[spoiler: Ymir Fritz was the first Titan shifter and used her powers to expand the Eldian tribe]]. As a teenager, [[spoiler: her [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe "reward"]] was to bear children for King Fritz, a man easily old enough to be her grandfather. Ymir was Queen in name, as Fritz treated her more like an object than an equal, but due to her slave programming, [[StockholmSyndrome Ymir sheepishly obeyed him despite having the means to leave him or defend herself]]. She spent the last years of her short life bearing three daughters and furthering his campaigns until she was assassinated by a spear meant for Fritz, [[KickTheDog who orders her to get up and work]] [[TwistedEucharist and forces their daughters to devour her body to claim her Titan shifting abilities]].]]

* In Creator/JosephSheridanLeFanu's novella ''The Room in the Dragon Volant'' Richard Beckett, a wealthy young Englishman travelling to Paris, makes the acquaintance of the elderly Comte de St. Alyre and his strikingly beautiful young wife Eugenie. As he is increasingly enamoured by Eugenie, he learns that the Comte (who is not much to look at) is a mean old miser who only married Eugenie for her inheritance, which he wants to pay his gambling debts with. Determined to deliver Eugenie from her unhappy marriage to a crusty old tyrant, Beckett resolves to elope with her. Only then does he find out that the Comte and his wife are in league with each other and [[spoiler:confidence tricksters who are after his money]].

* Defied in Creator/DanielleSteel's ''A Perfect Stranger'': Raphaella and her husband John Henry have a forty-four-year age difference, but their marriage is happy and fulfilling until he suffers a crippling stroke. While Raphaella does end up falling for another man (who is also older than her), their relationship is unconsummated out of loyalty to her husband [[note]] the tv movie changes this for {{Fanservice}}[[/note]]. As John Henry is far more concerned for Raphaella's well being after his rapidly approaching death than anything else, he ends up arranging a meeting with Alex (who is aware that he wouldn't have had a chance with Raphaella without John Henry's illness) and coming to a gentlemen's agreement of sorts. In the final scene, Raphaella, who's returned to her miserable family out of guilt for her feelings for Alex, receives a posthumous letter from John Henry [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy giving his blessing]].

-->-- ''Literature/SparklingCyanide.

->''He's got no faloorum, he's lost his ding-doorum\\
So maids when you're young never wed an old man\\\
When he went to sleep, hey ding-doorum down\\
When he went to sleep, me being young\\
When he went to sleep, out of bed I did creep\\
Into the arms of a handsome young man''
-->-- "Maids When You're Young"