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| One third of older women date younger men
Posted: 7/10/2008 5:54:01 PM | Those relationships are pretty much a joke. The women are dating younger because they can't find suitable guys their age (their contemporaries are dating younger women or foreign women, or are just loners). When you see these older women/younger men couples, they look like misfits. The guys rarely handle themselves with any confidence or class. I saw a couple like this the other day on a busy downtown sidewalk, and the younger guy didn't even follow the custom of walking on the outside (street-side) of the woman. As they held hands, she had his hand in hers and was leading him down the sidewalk. It looked like a mother and son.
These relationships may make sense for quick one-nighters, but they are a total joke for LTRs. A quick look at women like Linda Hogan proves this point. Older women would even be better off finding immigrants or foreign professional men in their same socioeconomic class rather than embarrassing themselves with younger boy-toys. It looks ridiculous. | |
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| One third of older women date younger men
Posted: 7/10/2008 5:58:12 PM | Well, I guess I qualify as older, older than dirt. :) If young men find me attractive, who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth?
I was married to a most decrepit and sickly much older man...that I took care of. Been there, done that. Do not wish to repeat.
Everybody I now date are a little to much younger than I. I don't want to have their babies, what does it matter? Who cares what their motivations are? Who are we hurting? Mind you they like me for my personality, not my money. I make sure of that.
It is a whole new world, and had I known how good it would be, would have not stayed in the bad marriage as long as I did.
My good friends and clients here in DC, researchers for AARP--it is a whole trend. They did surveys showing that a goodly percentage of older women, divorced & widowed, date younger men--and both sides are very happy with the deal. The women are not begging them for marriage and babies (no biological clock), and they are getting women who are emotionally & financially secure and loads of fun to be with.
Guess what, many of us are very fit, play tennis, do Pilates & Yoga, in fact way fitter than most flabby teenagers today, who have never had to WALK anywhere. AND we are discriminating--we want men who are also fit and mentally active. No couch potoatoes. In a lot of cases they are younger. C'est la vie.
Men have been doing it for years. But somehow I think it works a whole lot better in the other direction, physiologically speaking. :)
One Happy Camper | |
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| One third of older women date younger men
Posted: 7/24/2008 5:19:29 PM | | Well, since our "contemporaries" are dating the younger women or foreigners, that leaves the younger men for us "cougars". Since I'm not willing to be anybody's "one night stand" or "intimate encounter" (what an oxymoron), and am looking for character, responsibility, intelligence, interesting conversation, depth and similar values, I think anyone who judges others on preconcieved notions based on just one aspect, such as this kind of double-standard is a few bricks shy of a load. | |
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| One third of older women date younger men
Posted: 7/24/2008 6:16:41 PM | Well, guess I am an "older woman"...way older! lol
I will say this about that....I would and have dated a guy younger than I...but I do prefer to date someone within a "few" years of me.
As we age with our partner I prefer someone who is my equal in regards to health and aging....seems if one or both suffer any health issues, etc..the other would be more caring and compassionate. Maybe more willing to sit on the "sideline" for a bit...than to continue to move on without the other.
I think with a greater age difference, either way, the younger of the two might grow impatient and lose understanding in the "golden years"!
Guess my "fairy tale" is happily EVERafter!!
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