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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These younger women/older man pairings work because 1) the woman has  some kind of daddy issue and/or 2) they want economic security.

The younger chicks always have a back up plan, which is divorce the geezer and take half his loot, or just cheat.[/quote]

I think a lot of the women THINK they can do it.  The idea of being debt free, economic security, not having to worry about finances- it seems like it's worth it.

And then they have to sleep underneath a flabby-skinned 50 year old day in day out.

And the smooth skinned, ripped but broke pool boy gains a new appreciation.

And, I don't blame them.  Sex with a guy in his early 20s is hot, on a purely aesthetic value.  [/quote]

I'm laughing at the idea that ALL 40-50 year old men are flabby, wrinkly, bags of fat and ALL 20 something year old men are ripped and hard and sexy. Lotta 20something year old guys running around with premature Dad Bod or that pale sickly pallor one gets when they sit inside all the time and don't do anything physically active or venture outdoors unless absolutely necessary.

I married a man who was older than I am because I appreciated that I could have an interesting, challenging conversation with him. I had a string of boyfriends in college who were painful to talk to. I said once that Dean Koontz was the poor man's Stephen King and the boyfriend I was with at the time said "No, their books are the same price."

As for aging- it happens to all of us. It's easy to say you're aging at the same pace when you're 32-35. Some people are robust well into old age and some start to experience catastrophic health issues at a devastatingly young age. I have a friend from college who knows a couple where the father was recently widowed with two children under two because his wife died of aggressive breast cancer. She was THIRTY. Saying "I cannot conceive of entertaining the notion of having a relationship with anyone more than 5 years older than me because if my spouse is within 5 years of my age we will age similarly and I will never have to care for them or be alone" is just... dumb. If my husband goes downhill at 75 and I'm 60, guess what- I'll take care of him, the same way I hope he would if I were to develop aggressive breast cancer this year. And if I'm widowed at 65, I guess I'll live, the way lots of widows and widowers do when their spouses passes years before them. [/quote]

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