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If it's seeking a relationship, I'll tell you, it depends.
My husband is 50 and is 12 years older than me. However, we have pretty much have always had the same energy level (have been together 10 total years) and we have the same interests and the same intelligence level. Neither of us had been married previously, neither have had offspring and we don't want our own offspring.
I read somewhere an age gap can be overcome if the two people involved are in the same stage of life.
For example, you can't expect it to work out if she's a 26 year old graduate student and you're financially independent to the point you're about to retire. If you started having kids young, you might have a 28 or a 29 year old and it might be kind of uncomfortable for a woman who's 34 years old.
If you want to casually see women, I'd say, no age is too young as long as it's at least 18 and they are interested.
For a very fit guy of 50, what do you think is an acceptable age range for dating women?
I think you were really asking me this question. I am in a relationship with a guy who is 52. I am 27. I've tried to figure out why this relationship seems to work and I think it is because he is just young-at-heart, while I am old enough to be my own person. Just two years ago I would have thought a relationship with a guy so much older as too weird and been uncomfortable with it, but over the last couple of years my thinking has become a little bit more independent. Still, it would not be a good fit for me with most guys over 50, or even over 40.
Open-mindedness is a requirement for everyone. If age is a problem for anyone, then it's not going to work.
"so an 18 year old acts like a 9 year old? not really."
I got the above in a rep message and I honestly don't understand it, can anyone possibly explain it to me? I thought I only responded once to the original post but I'll have to check again, maybe it will make sense then.
"so an 18 year old acts like a 9 year old? not really."
I got the above in a rep message and I honestly don't understand it, can anyone possibly explain it to me? I thought I only responded once to the original post but I'll have to check again, maybe it will make sense then.
you made this comment earlier:
Age is a manmade number for convenience and has nothing to do with who the person is....
basically saying age has nothing to do with the person it's just a random number created for humanity's convenience. Um, not really. So with that logic, an 18 year old person is on the same level as a 9 year old, right? Since they're all just a bunch of random as* numbers and all.
and I thought I signed that rep comment like I always do.
For a very fit guy of 50, what do you think is an acceptable age range for dating women?
The same age range as anyone else.
Focusing on age is not a great point to start, especially when people start throwing out those empty makey up formulas for halving your age and adding another figure. This is all nonsense.
What you need to do is focus on what you want from a relationship and then find someone to have that relationship with. If some of the things on that list are somehow precluded because of their age then perhaps they were not the right choice of person for the relationship.
That person should of course do the same in reverse and make the same decisions about what they want from the relationship.
Other than that there is nothing to dictate what is "acceptable" in the relationship. People like to judge of course and an age difference will get the curtain twitchers twitching and the judgemental back stabbers talking behind your back. But it is not their business and you should judge your relationship by it's own merits and not what busy bodies with no interesting lives of their own might judge your for.
A normal 37 year old male will have NOTHING in common with a 20-something female.
I'm pretty sure our genitals will line up properly.
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