Senior Women Who Date...Same Age, Younger Men or Older Fellows?

I don't see a problem with a significant difference in age as long as the people involved are honest with themselves and each other.

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Aunt Bea said:
I don't see a problem with a significant difference in age as long as the people involved are honest with themselves and each other.
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I struggled with this, I wasn't sure if he was honest about a relationship and I pushed for marriage. He said yes and I have no regrets at all, we are still very much in love. I have no doubt he has been honest and loves me. After being with each other for a few years now, he doesn't have one ounce of dishonesty in him. He is contantly loving, I am a very lucky woman to be with someone much younger and would not trade this for the world.
 
Betty&Jeremy said:
I struggled with this, I wasn't sure if he was honest about a relationship and I pushed for marriage. He said yes and I have no regrets at all, we are still very much in love. I have no doubt he has been honest and loves me. After being with each other for a few years now, he doesn't have one ounce of dishonesty in him. He is contantly loving, I am a very lucky woman to be with someone much younger and would not trade this for the world.
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Betty, I think that is so AWESOME! I think a younger man would be delicious, It just depends on who he is INSIDE!
What is the age difference between you twoagain?
If I get a man, he's gonna HALF TO BE younger than me because I'm so old now, there is hardly anyone left! hahaha!
 
MarciKS said:
Four or five years is one thing. 10 or more makes a mighty big difference sometimes.
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A friend of mine who is a doctor talks about the pressures affecting those who do have a big age gap with their partners, amongst the patients she sees, (all anonymous or in general of course, except we have a mutual friend in this situation, though her relationship has lasted well).
 
Gaer said:
Betty, I think that is so AWESOME! I think a younger man would be delicious, It just depends on who he is INSIDE!
What is the age difference between you twoagain?
If I get a man, he's gonna HALF TO BE younger than me because I'm so old now, there is hardly anyone left! hahaha!
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Gaer, it's a very unusual situation, he was my neighbor and it happen slowly. I am a little embarrassed about our age difference, but he is 39 years younger than me. I never wanted it, I am not the type of woman, but over time it happened and fortunately it worked out.
 
Betty&Jeremy said:
Gaer, it's a very unusual situation, he was my neighbor and it happen slowly. I am a little embarrassed about our age difference, but he is 39 years younger than me. I never wanted it, I am not the type of woman, but over time it happened and fortunately it worked out.
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It doesn't matter if it's 3 years or 30 years, LOVE IS LOVE!
You must be a gorgeous lady and a GUTSY lady!
My late husband was 11 years older than me and we fit!
Men interested in me seem to be 10-13 years younger than me.
CHRONOLOGICAL AGE MEANS NOTHING! It's SOULS that feel love and souls have no age.
I think you should be proud of your decision if it works!
 
Gaer said:
It doesn't matter if it's 3 years or 30 years, LOVE IS LOVE!
You must be a gorgeous lady and a GUTSY lady!
My late husband was 11 years older than me and we fit!
Men interested in me seem to be 10-13 years younger than me.
CHRONOLOGICAL AGE MEANS NOTHING! It's SOULS that feel love and souls have no age.
I think you should be proud of your decision if it works!
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What I learned is to not put too any barriers and many of us at our age do put barriers. Get to know them first, make sure they don't have bad intentions or want to a one night stand. You can do this by seeing how long they will be your friend without walking away. You can see it in their words and actions. My hubby was very caring form the minute I met him, was not pushy at all. He would help me carry the groceries, change my light bulbs and even give me rides to the airport. This is all before we got serious. I saw it in his actions. At the very early stage when we started to get serious, I pushed for marriage and he ended up proposing to me in a very reasonable time. So it's not like we hopped in bed together. It was a process, especially for someone like myself who would never come close to thinking of being with someone more than 5 years younger.
 
Diwundrin said:
Personally, at my stage of life, I'd like a big hefty 6'2" eunuch around 35 who is addicted to house and yard work and if he can cook as well that'd be really gooood. I could 'relate' with that. Romance doesn't live here any more.
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I think your last sentence should attract a mob of 35 year old guys. :eek:
 
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Joan Collins (87) with her husband, Percy Gibson. (56)
Joan Collins has declared she'd 'settle' at living til she's 100 - and has brushed off the age difference between her and husband Percy Gibson. The 86-year-old star married Percy, 55, in 2002, and said in a new interview that 'people make too much fuss about age, which is just a number.'

Speaking to the press, Joan said: 'I think there’s a big difference between biological age and the age you’re supposed to be. 'As you know, Percy is somewhat younger than me. At first people would always say, "What are you going to do about the age difference?" I’d say, "Well, if he dies he dies!"'
 
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Joan Collins (87) with her husband, Percy Gibson. (56)
Joan Collins has declared she'd 'settle' at living til she's 100 - and has brushed off the age difference between her and husband Percy Gibson. The 86-year-old star married Percy, 55, in 2002, and said in a new interview that 'people make too much fuss about age, which is just a number.'

Speaking to the press, Joan said: 'I think there’s a big difference between biological age and the age you’re supposed to be. 'As you know, Percy is somewhat younger than me. At first people would always say, "What are you going to do about the age difference?" I’d say, "Well, if he dies he dies!"'
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That's great! Chronological age is meaningless!
 
It's really starting to mean less and less. My best friend is the wife of one his his good friends. She is 29 and I have known her since she was 26. We talk on the phone every day now and I attended her bachelorette party before she got married a year ago. We go shopping together and have lunch together about once a week. We have a few more mutual friends that are in their late 20s or early 30s (except for me) and we have group get togethers often. He has a few older guy friends thanks to my older friends, though I am closer to my younger friends. It's truly a whole new word the last 2 to 3 years, it's truly wonderful.
 
yes and when someone my age wants to date someone my age they can't because they're too busy eyeballing 20 and 30 yo women. and i will be damned if i'm dating a 30 yo man. that's just ridiculous.
 
Keesha said:
My husband is 5 years younger but it makes no difference to either one of us. Besides he looks older. 😁 Lol
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My wife is a few years older than I am, but a few years doesn't make any difference because we have lived through the same cultural times. Five years is about the same as my wife and I. It is when you have 20 or 30 years difference that it would matter with regard to the little things. I believe 20 years is still considered a "generation".

Tony
 
tbeltrans said:
My wife is a few years older than I am, but a few years doesn't make any difference because we have lived through the same cultural times. Five years is about the same as my wife and I. It is when you have 20 or 30 years difference that it would matter with regard to the little things. I believe 20 years is still considered a "generation".

Tony
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I agree. While I do truly believe that in true love age shouldn’t matter but I think it does. If there’s too much age, it might be cute at first that friends think it’s your mother but after a while that might become really hurtful. And I think having similar time references is easier to relate to with your partner if they’re at least within your generation. Decades apart would make this difficult. My husband and I met when I was 29 and he was 24 but he’d only turned 24. We worked together where he was in charge of circuit boards production and I was in charge of its quality control. We instantly got along. He told me as soon as he laid eyes on me, he knew that we’d be together forever. Then he stole my heart with jube jubes. It was love at first taste. 😁
 
tbeltrans said:
My wife is a few years older than I am, but a few years doesn't make any difference because we have lived through the same cultural times. Five years is about the same as my wife and I. It is when you have 20 or 30 years difference that it would matter with regard to the little things. I believe 20 years is still considered a "generation".

Tony
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I understand where you are coming from, as mentioned very early on in this thread I would have never considered a man so young, let alone i considered 5 years too much. But things happen in an unusual way as I previously explained and certainly was not eyeballing 30 year olds. Also when a woman gets in her 70s, there are so few options for us. Regardless I am very happy the way things turned out, it's truly been wonderful and madly in love with him.
 

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