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[quote=Anonymous]I think more than a decade is too great a divide.

Beyond that, it's one thing if a 48 year old man and a 32 year old woman meet somewhere organically and fall in love.  It's different if the 48 year old man is actively pursuing only early 30s women on a dating site.  It says something about what they're prioritizing.

The biggest issue, though, is that men, even when they're the same age, tend to be condescending to women (generalization, but that's where "mainsplaining" comes from).  It's 20 times worse when the man is at least a decade older.  Be prepared to have your opinion always come second because you have less life experience.  It's very difficult to truly have an equal partnership when there is something that heavily skews the relationship (be it a big age difference, a big difference in education, a big difference in money).  That's not to say there aren't relationships that overcome that, but I think they're the exception, not the rule.

I have a friend who was 30 and dated a man who was 50.  It started off great, but he became very condescending.  After they broke up, his next girlfriend was 22.  I don't think it was just youth and beauty that caused him to date younger women.  I actually think it was some ego thing that he liked being the older, wiser person in the relationship.  After witnessing what my friend went through, I would caution women against dating a man over 10 years older.  [/quote]

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