Actress Anna-Maija Tuokko talks about the benefits of age difference in a recent interview.
Anna-Maija Tuokko has been together with her husband for 12 years. PASI LEISMA
Actor Anna-Maija Tuokko43, speaks We in the Women’s article 26 years of age difference with his spouse. He has been an actor and a director Kari Heiskanen69, together since 2012.
According to Tuoko, when talking about the age gap in the social discussion, there is a negative tone, although he himself has experienced that it has wonderful aspects. The couple is at a different stage in their careers, which allows her more freedom to realize herself.
– Thanks to Kari, I have gained a wide circle of friends, which includes people of many ages. It has opened up my world. I like to have my thinking challenged and expanded. My husband and I talk about a lot of different things. The age difference is a life-enriching thing for both of us, Tuokko tells Me Nais.
The actor told Iltalehte in November that he lived through crisis years in his thirties, and that he was afraid of being alone after the end of the relationship at that time. At that time, Heiskanen appeared in the pictures. Now the couple has two daughters: a firstborn born in 2015 and a little sister who is four years younger.
According to Tuoko, flexibility works in their relationship.
– My husband is basically retired. He has said directly that he has been allowed to do so much that now it is my turn. He has left many jobs undone because of me and has put me first.
Tuokko is acting in a rotating play at the Aleksanteri theater Mother, wife and other impossibilities – in the musical, a career woman who accidentally becomes pregnant.