As much as we can pretend that age is just a number and it’s that human connection that counts, age will catch up to you. Biology doesn’t care what you feel about age. On that note, here’s what the future holds if you date someone much older than yourself.
If you met in your twenties, then it may now nearly be 20 years that you’ve known him. Oh. My. Goodness. Your first twenty years were all chaos and getting to know yourself and growing and hurting and falling and getting back up. Then, you already did another 20, all over again. Possibly all with this man.
It can almost work, but on a social level, it gets uncomfortable. Women in their late 30s are certainly as mentally mature as men in their early 50s. That being said, the 50 and up group is its own special thing and the friends of that man will struggle to accept his 38-year-old girlfriend. There are experiences the older group has had that the younger woman just can’t relate to.
You also can’t help but wonder if your friend is having some sort of an episode. Should you ask if she’s okay? If this dating-an-older-man thing is just a symptom of some emotional problem? Are you supposed to just sit back and assume it’s healthy?
Your partner will inevitably have much more romantic history than you. He may have had several serious relationships with women he lived with, married, started businesses with, and even had children with. You’ll have to be a very secure person to live with all these ghosts.
I always feel young when my boyfriend is five to seven years older than I am! Whenever I find myself comparing myself to women ten years younger than me, I go, “Stop that. You will always look like a spring chicken to your boo.”
It’s not uncommon for a woman in her forties to fall for a man in his sixties, or for a woman in her thirties to date a man in his fifties. These unique middle-of-life age groups—they’re all beyond the tumultuous twenties but not yet considered senior citizens in the eyes of society—do a lot of […]
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