Another age difference problem

LegacyUser

I'd really just like some opinions here, basically my boyfriend's 21 and I'm 23 and I know that's not really a big age difference at all but my mum doesn't approve of it so it's really worrying me.
We've been together 2 years now and everything's great we love each other get along really well and have long term plans which point in the same direction (ie. study/work for the next few years, do a bit of travelling then probably return to Ireland some time). However I constantly have this niggley worry that we'll go on like this for a few years til I'm say 28 and want to settle down get married etc and he's 26 and realises that
a) he's missed out on the best single years of his life and wants to play the field a bit
b) actually he's too young to get married and breaks up with me
c) actually he doesn't want to marry ME and breaks up with me
And then I'm 28 and single which I KNOW is not a bad thing at all but I'm just the type who worries about this kind of thing constantly so can you imagine what i'll be like when I'm 28?

To be honest I think the main problem is my mother as she's the one who pointed all this out to me in the first place and since she got (happily) married at 23 she thinks everyone else should do it to and if I'm still single at 28 she might aswell say goodbye to any grandchildren.
It's so so stupid because I love my OH more than anything and god knows I could get hit by a car tomorrow and none of this would matter but sometimes I onder but I be better off just ending it now and saving myself a lot of heartbreak a few years down the line?
Sorry I think i'm just ranting here what I probably need is some-one to tell me how stupid I'm being.....does anyone else ever worry about things like this?

Peggypeg

Ok first of all stop listening to your mother, she's wrong. Why would she tell you not to be with the person you're in love with? Yep she is completely wrong. I'm 27 and my boyfriend is 25 and believe me it is NOT an issue. I don't plan on having kids until I'm at least 33, probably because that's when my mother had me (I wonder sometimes is the biological clock timing hereditary) and she always said she's glad she waited coz she got to do so much with her life first. Seriously sweetie stop worrying and defo stop listening to your mum. You really don't know what's going to happen in the future, you could die, he could die, he could realise he's gay, you could decide you don't want children, I know all that sounds unlikely but sh*t happens you know? If it does imagine realising you've wasted so much time worrying about this. Seriously stop worrying about what's "right". You love him, he loves you, so there you go, you make each other happy and that is seriously the most important thing in the world. Just going to say it one more time STOP LISTENING TO YOUR MOTHER.

Sephiroth_dude

Dont mind your mother,its only 2yrs.