jujubeeMB -> RE: Age-appropriate attractiveness (1/25/2010 1:40:27 AM)
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ORIGINAL: AnimusRex quote:
ORIGINAL: jujubeeMB Maturity isn't the only issue with dating young women. 18-20something year olds are going through a lot of "what the hell am I doing with my life" transitions, and most 40 and 50something year olds aren't (hopefully). I'm definitely attracted to older men (they're better in bed), but one of the problems I constantly run up against is just that we're in entirely different stages of our lives. This is exactly my feeling as well. I have met plenty of wonderful young women (that is, younger than 30) and no matter how intelligent, mature, witty and charming they might be, we are separated by a mountain- they are jut beginning that upward arc of getting established in their lives, looking ahead to the climb of of starting a familiy, settling into their careers and so forth. I am on the other side of that- my son is an adult, my career is settled, and the next big arc of my life concerns grandchildren and retirement, not new babies and new careers. Its not that they don't understand- its that our lives are moving in separate directions. And it isn't to say that other men my age might find a different answer; but we all choose our paths, and mine doesn't fit together with someone who is on the other side of the mountain. Exactly what I meant. Thanks - that's a really good way to put it. And frankly, I think that there's something lost if that young person isn't allowed to explore the climb up the mountain from their own perspective. My previous (and first) Dom wanted to make a lot of decisions for me, since he had already gone through what I was going through, as far as mountains go. I realized that I didn't want someone else "helping me" skip major life events, just because he was done with them.
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