How do you make Age-Gap Romance NOT weird?

I've been reading an Age-Gap Romance recently and stumbled across some of the debates about the topic that got me thinking.

I understand the concerns with it and I don't generally have an issue when both characters are consenting adults, but I do think there is a "correct" way to do it.

While some Age-Gap Romances do work for me without the drastic events described here (i.e. Colonel Brandon and Marianne Dashwood in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility), I think Brontë set some really good precedents in Jane Eyre that handle the trope really well.

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