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coachmarkos
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 Posted: 02/20/03 - 12:34 Post subject:
| genie wrote: | | I have done the older man several times |
TMI!
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keltic63
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Posted: 02/20/03 - 12:35 Post subject: Re: May/December romances
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Mrs. Hayes is 8.5 years older than I am. |
mrs. keltic is 8yrs older than me.
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jrjo
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Posted: 02/20/03 - 12:35 Post subject:
I gotta wonder if it's a female perception thing though. I think I speak for most guys in trying to guess the age of women. Between 25 and 50, I'm awful at guessing. So if a 25 year old guy is out with a 40 year old woman.. heck if I'm going to be able to figure it out.
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Cappy
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Posted: 02/20/03 - 13:17 Post subject: Re: May/December romances
| purple hayes wrote: | | genie wrote: | | Would you ever consider either, assuming that you were single now? Why or why not? |
I've told you before that I'm married. Stop hitting on me. 
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Genie you are too old for me
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cherylpf
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Posted: 02/20/03 - 13:27 Post subject:
| pokychick wrote: | | camelia bedelia wrote: | If Catherine and Michael make you  , I had to see how you react to Anna Nicole Smith and her dearly departed hubby. |
But Anna Nicole Smith and her dearly departed were truly in love and
it was so sweet to watch. She was just so devasted when he died,
it broke my heart. did I just type all that |
I am  so hard I'm 
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rubberlegs
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Posted: 02/20/03 - 13:36 Post subject:
I only date older women, you know...18, 19...
(stolen from Pauly Shore standup routine from years ago)
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pokychick
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Posted: 02/20/03 - 13:37 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | pokychick wrote: | | camelia bedelia wrote: | | If Catherine and Michael make you , I had to see how you react to Anna Nicole Smith and her dearly departed hubby. |
But Anna Nicole Smith and her dearly departed were truly in love and
it was so sweet to watch. She was just so devastated when he died,
it broke my heart. did I just type all that |
I am so hard I'm
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Sandy Cheeks
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Posted: 02/20/03 - 13:57 Post subject:
This is a current debate for me too. My friends and I have different ideas of what age differences are appropriate.
I am attracted to men that are quite a bit older than me. Like airehead, I have just always found older men more attractive. I have never dated anyone younger and I doubt I ever will - we are interested in very different things.
But I think it's great, either way. if you can find someone who makes you happy, who cares how old they are?
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genie
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Posted: 02/20/03 - 14:16 Post subject:
OMG, you guys are all cracking me up here....I'll have to be sure to print this out and take it to school next class.....
SC and AH, that's kinda where I always was...I don't particularly want to have kids, so of course an older guy would be more attractive from that aspect, although I wouldn't be adverse to marrying someone with kids...I've dated several guys with kids and it was fun playing the "evil stepmonster" as my one BF's son used to jokingly call me. He was great, I miss him more than his father! But Cheeky is right about the "we want different things" thing, plus the social stigma was always enough to make me cringe.
That and the "you might not be able to see the age difference now but wait til I'm 50" thing. 25 and 40, depending on whether the woman is youthful or not, might be OK, but 35/50? 45/60? The age is bound to show eventually, unless we're talking about Joan Rivers! But jrjo, you may have something with the female perception thing. I know myself I am inherently insecure and having to compete with women 15 years my junior at whatever stage of my life would be the cause of MANY sleepless nights.....
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omega lambda
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Posted: 02/20/03 - 16:46 Post subject:
| genie wrote: |
OL, if I may...how would you relate your aging theory to the other side...older woman/younger man? I agree with what you said about the men but I hadn't thought about it in context of the opposite, having always been horrified at the thought. I know men tend to want younger models as they themselves age, an ego thing? Or am I just generalizing? |
Well, I have no statistics to back up what I said, just two anecdotal data points. My parents had two couple friends where the men were significantly older than the women. In both cases, as the men retired and the women were still working, kids grown-up or in high school, the women had affairs with men their age (one woman had an affair and got pregnant by a younger man!  ) and their marriages ended in divorce. I suspect that it works both ways though. I don't know any couples where the woman is significantly older than the man, but it still seems to me that if your wife is 70 and you are a 50 year old man, you would find an awful lot of younger women attractive in ways that your wife may no longer be. If you're closer in age, your bodies start sagging at the same time, your ticker starts slowing down at the same time, your arthritis kicks in at the same time. You become each other's support as well as friends and lovers and husbands and wives. I think that no matter who is older, male or female, the problems associated with a significant age difference will be the same.
That's what I THINK! Now let's see some data! 
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genie
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Posted: 02/20/03 - 16:51 Post subject:
That's cool, I wasn't necessarily looking for data, just to see where you'd go with the older woman example. It's just a point I always had a very strong opposing stance to and I am trying to see the other side of it. I'd tend to agree with you on the age gap thing, if for nothing else than the physiological points you make.
Jrjo:  I CANNOT get that song to stop running through my head......arghhhh!!! I hate country music!
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