Louise* and her partner form a duo unlike any other.
A generational gap separates them, almost twenty years.
The young woman is 29 years old, and Nicolas, 48. "When I give our ages, people are surprised," she slips.
At the time of the meeting, she is a teenager, he is a father.
They fall in love a few years later.
Nicolas comes out of a seventeen-year relationship that saw the birth of two children;
Louise is in her early twenties.
They are in two opposite “space-times”.
She starts something, he closes a chapter;
she has everything to do, he has already checked a lot of boxes.
If age could have been a brake, both partners consider it, on the contrary, as their greatest asset.
This configuration does not surprise Yvon Dallaire, psychologist and author of a trilogy on the couple.
According to him, the greater the age gap, the more different realities we experience and therefore the more things we have to bring to each other.
Nothing obliges to be the mirror of the one...
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