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I know of a couple of guys who are in this situation. Nothing good has come from it. The guys have both stopped talking to their family members and have completely turned into weak pricks.
My cousin is 14 years his wife's junior. They met when he was 26, and they've been happily married for 19 years.
It works for some, while it doesn't work for others; plain and simple, so I find it funny how some people in this thread just "know" that the relationship is doomed.
Several members, moderators and ex-moderators here have been happily married to men 9+ years their junior for years (we had an earlier thread on a similar topic to this one). Women don't seek young partners out, it's the men who are attracted to them and ask them out.
Several members, moderators and ex-moderators here have been happily married to men 9+ years their junior for years (we had an earlier thread on a similar topic to this one). Women don't seek young partners out, it's the men who are attracted to them and ask them out.
That's true with my current relationship. My bf is the one that wanted us to be a couple. Almost right away he dropped the L-word on me. And even nine years later, there hasn't been any other woman he's wanted to be with romantically or even just sexually. The women who are his age (31) just aren't appealing to him, not even on a platonic level.
Several members, moderators and ex-moderators here have been happily married to men 9+ years their junior for years (we had an earlier thread on a similar topic to this one). Women don't seek young partners out, it's the men who are attracted to them and ask them out.
There you go again speaking for all women. This is a ridiculous statement. I've known and seen plenty of older women who have pursued younger men, quite aggressively too. I speak from actual experience, not from some sort of gender bias.
There you go again speaking for all women. This is a ridiculous statement. I've known and seen plenty of older women who have pursued younger men, quite aggressively too. I speak from actual experience, not from some sort of gender bias.
I think that there are TWO scenarios here. One is about older women and younger men dating and having a serious long term romance. And that is what Ruth4Truth and I are referring to. In the situations we speak of, the older woman waits for the younger man to make the first moves. She doesn't want to be in the embarrassing situation of having her advances rejected because she knows that in our society, the epitome of beauty for most is a young woman in her 20's. And with my bf, he happens to love my looks in addition to how my brain works.
But in regards to older women and younger men have some sort of sexual fling, where the older woman is seen as a "cougar", then sure I've seen where the older woman was the pursuer, and sometimes the younger man was also the aggressor...
It's impractical, because men have leverage in Western society that women do not have. They have more options. Old men can attract young women . . .old women cannot attract young men . . .so it's basically a number's game . . . at 40, a woman is still attractive . . . but she has lost some options . . .a 25 year old man's options are wide open - same with 35 and 45 year old man.
A 50 year old woman has few options . . .a 60 year old woman has virtually no options . . .
It would basically be dumb on the woman's part to think a 25 year old man will be in for the long run. It would be exceptionally rare and then you would have to wonder what his deal is.
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) "fling material"
Only the buff need apply.
