Is it stupid to date older women?

[Polymath257]

Age is a random number. It affects what you can remember, but not who you are.

I dated someone 15 years younger for 7 years. I married someone 7 years younger and we are still very good friends.

The biggest problem in dating someone significantly younger is that they don't remember events and don't recognize cultural references. And that isn't really a big problem.

 

[Polymath257]

This brings up a question that I've always wondered: what if we lived longer?

Vampires are immortal, right? Dracula would be about 600 years old by now. Can he only date people that were turned into vampires around the same time that he did? Is there that much of a difference between being 600 years old and 500 years old?

I suppose we couldn't know without actually living that long, but a "half your age plus seven" rule seems like it would scale well for immortals, too. Then Dracula could date anyone turned during the Renaissance, which intuitively feels more right to me.

What ultimately matters is life (or afterlife) experiences. Age just isn't the relevant variable. Maturity is. Both ways.

 

[F1fan]

Like, if they have grey hair and I don't. Is that a really bad idea?

Are you 20? It's a good idea.

Single mothers are to be avoided, however.

 

[F1fan]

Age is a random number. It affects what you can remember, but not who you are.

I dated someone 15 years younger for 7 years. I married someone 7 years younger and we are still very good friends.

The biggest problem in dating someone significantly younger is that they don't remember events and don't recognize cultural references. And that isn't really a big problem.

And it can be embarrassing at prom. So...

 

[blü 2]

Like, if they have grey hair and I don't. Is that a really bad idea?

Depends what you're after. The first task of management is to get a clear answer to the question, What am I trying to do?

(And if you have any problems, you can always ask Emmanuel Macron.)

 

[crossfire]

Like, if they have grey hair and I don't. Is that a really bad idea?

Do you prefer PMS or perimenopause?

 

[Spirit of Light]

Like, if they have grey hair and I don't. Is that a really bad idea?

You should date the woman you feel comfortable with dont worry about what others thinking, if its right for you, go ahead and enjoy life.

 

[Martin]

Like, if they have grey hair and I don't. Is that a really bad idea?

Not necessarily, though with a big age gap, priorities and interests could be very different.

 

[TransmutingSoul]

Like, if they have grey hair and I don't. Is that a really bad idea?

It's all relative is it not?

I married and older women 41 years ago. We dated for a whole 3 days.

P/S and she is still older

Regards Tony

 

[Revoltingest]

Like, if they have grey hair and I don't. Is that a really bad idea?

Just don't carbon date them.
(They loathe that joke.)

 

[Brickjectivity]

Just don't carbon date them.
(They loathe that joke.)

I understand. You're saying don't date my mummy.

 

[Polymath257]

Not necessarily, though with a big age gap, priorities and interests could be very different.

So explore the priorities and interests and see if they match. Just like you would do for someone your own age.

 

[JustGeorge]

It's all relative is it not?

I married and older women 41 years ago. We dated for a whole 3 days.

P/S and she is still older

Regards Tony

You've got me beat! I married my husband after two months. Three days is quite surprise!

Mind if I ask you the story behind that?

 

[TransmutingSoul]

You've got me beat! I married my husband after two months. Three days is quite surprise!

Mind if I ask you the story behind that?

You actually beat us, we'll done I hope all is good for you both.

We were engaged after 3 days, would have married, but the family wanted to arrange a wedding, so the wedding ended up 3 months after engagement.

It was one of those instant attractions at first site, I had gone to visit a friend just after sunset with 2 army buddies, and my wife opened the door and that was that. We found the deeper connection on the first night, we started chatting and before we knew it it was morning, a night of talking.

We actually lived in my Panel van from day 3 for a while, at the house where we met, before we found our first place, prior to the wedding.

Regards Tony

 

[JustGeorge]

You actually beat us, we'll done I hope all is good for you both.

We were engaged after 3 days, would have married, but the family wanted to arrange a wedding, so the wedding ended up 3 months after engagement.

It was one of those instant attractions at first site, I had gone to visit a friend just after sunset with 2 army buddies, and my wife opened the door and that was that. We found the deeper connection on the first night, we started chatting and before we knew it it was morning, a night of talking.

We actually lived in my Panel van from day 3 for a while, at the house where we met, before we found our first place, prior to the wedding.

Regards Tony

That's awesome! Sometimes you just know.

What's a Panel van?

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Like, if they have grey hair and I don't. Is that a really bad idea?

Just don't go into the "creepiness zone" and you're good:

- dating younger than (your age)/2 + 7, or
- dating older than (your age - 7) * 2

Is generally considered creepy.

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