Earlier this year I was dating a woman who was a month older than me. But we broke up so now I am seeing a woman who is 3 years younger than me. Does that count?
DATING OLDER MEN/WOMEN
by sandy 48 Replies latest social relationships
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Corvin
My wonderful wife, Mary, is 7 years older than I. I have a hard time connecting with younger women intellectually. Must be a values thing, I guess.
I love my "old lady" and she taught me that it takes some living to get good at giving . . . and giving love is just where she could teach the younger ladies a thing or two.
Corvin
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dh
i've never dated anyone significantly older than myself, and i wouldn't. it's not that i have anything against it, i just don't think it is for me, i cannot see myself being happy with a much older woman, or with a much younger woman when i am older.
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myauntfanny
I'm five years older than my husband and we hardly ever notice it, but sometimes one of us does. When I hit the big five oh he's gonna be where I am now, it's a strange thought. I'm just going to hate being in my fifties for five years all by myself. I also once had a woman friend (not a lover, just a friend) who is about 18 years old than I am. In her late fifties she started just acting, well, old. It kind of freaked me out, and I thought then I was glad I hadn't married a man a lot older than I am, because if that happened with my husband I think I'd get depressed if I wasn't ready to start acting old yet.
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exjdub
I'm only 3 years older than my wife and she never lets me forget it! She is such a wiseass...and I would be lost without her.
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eyegirl
i myself am a big fan of dating older men. miss joanna likes to tease me saying that they're all part of the AARP club i swear it's genetic though........i remember my mom telling me that she always dated guys who were older than her because they generally treat you better. my seester is a big fan too; her hubby is 16 years her senior. guess i don't necessarily see a problem with it as long as you genuinely have things in common.
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Undaunted Danny
There are a whole lotta rotten "relations**ts",in the 'new world society'.....My experience goes back to the the 1950's.
I 've been around the block a few times.My dad met my mom door to door in 1955,he was 27 and she was 17.
Their marriage s**k from the get-go.There are a LOT of dysfunctional miss-matched JW couplings.They get married for reasons other,than that they simply Love each other.
They get married for Kingdom expediancy,it doesn't matter that they don't even like each other,cause you are a 'diamond in the rough' and Jehovah is gonna make you perfect for me in the 'new system'.
The ONLY reason i'm not a casuality and didn't get sucked into it myself,is because i was crippled with a chronic wasting disease.I was waiting on Jehovah to cure me in the paradise.
Don't forget JW's can't get divorced except under the ugliest of circumstances,(porneia) so once you tie the knot you are trapped.
http://www.dannyhaszard.com/dating.htm http://www.freeminds.org/psych/recover.htm
Danny shares and cares.
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stillajwexelder
My wife is significantly younger than me - her parents were not pleased when we started dating
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seeitallclearlynow
As far as anyone else's relationship, I'm all for whatever works and makes people happy.
And in terms of friendships and just plain caring about people, there is no limit apparently to the range of people I enjoy very much. I've had friends of all ages/genders/lifestyles - BUT...when it comes to that very special subject/arrangement called dating and romance, that is a completely different story.
In my own case, I have dated both younger (one man was 9 years younger and one was 5 years younger) and older (one man was 15 years older) and it seems I irritated the one who was 15 years older and the one who was 9 years younger drove me crazy with his ways. So sweet but so irritating. I know it was not just his youth - it was a real mismatch - but the youth was a big part of the problem.
The one who was only 5 years younger still tugs at my heart to this day, after 10 years. Just something about him that reached me.
I need to be on the same level of maturity as the person I'm with. That's the main thing with regard to age. And I need for the person to "get" my references without a lot of explanations.
