Thanks for your post on my thread... the age gap really isn't important in the end. And every time I turn around I meet or remember or hear of another happy couple who are 15 years or more apart in age. My parents know a man who is in his 80s and has been married to a woman in her 50s for the last 20 years or so. They were very happy last time I saw them.
And you're right, I'm going to have more of a problem with distance... he has just spent a month here and left for Africa on Tuesday... I miss him but won't see him at least until Xmas, maybe not for 6 months...
Anyway, enough of me... whatever the tsk tsk is, I hope everything works out, and to pass on some good advice I got recently, follow your heart.