'Should I Follow My Much-Older Boyfriend to a State Where I Don't Want to Live?'

Sometimes the age gap isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Death and the Maiden (1953) by Dorothea Tanning

Dear Polly,

A lifetime of challenging decisions and restarts has led me to, now, the peak of life-changing decisions and new beginnings.

My partner and I have been together for three years now. There is a sixteen-year age gap between us, and lately, I have begun to see how being in such different stages of li…