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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]35 isn't really an "older man" to a 25 year old. At that age range, they could be siblings. If she was 19, or he was 50, I'd understand the cynicism, but 25-35? Give me a break.[/quote]

I am the poster in my 20s who has the friends totally obsessed with dating older men.  The men in their mid-30s may not be much older, true, but they are old enough to have finished their graduate educations, launched their careers, paid off their student loans, bought their big house (or at least they can afford to), dress in fine clothes, drive the luxury cars, and take amazing vacations.

It's the difference, in my profession, between dating a clueless, first-year associate with absolutely no status, and dating a powerful partner whom everyone respects.  The age difference may only be little more than a decade, but the power, wealth, and status difference is a much bigger gulf.  I detest this sort of wealth-and-status seeking among the women my age.[/quote]
Why does it bother you? Are you not got or interesting enough to date up? Are you  a man in your 20's who can't find a date?[/quote]

Actually, I am newly-married to a man in my own age cohort, whom I met in grad school.  We will grow, develop, make our wealth, climb the career latter, earn our success, oay off our loans, eventually have our children, buy our big house, drive our luxury cars, afford our wonderful travels, by working towards those goals TOGETHER.  You know, the old-fashioned way; and not via the materialistic short-cuts to instant gratification by compromising with an older guy you hook up with not for love, but for money.[/quote]

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