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A growing share of U.S. husbands and wives are roughly the same age
(Alina Rudya/Bell Collective via Getty images) The typical age gap between husbands and wives in the United States has narrowed over the past 20 years, continuing a 20th-century trend. On average, husbands and wives were 2.2 years apart in age in 2022, …