Age gap relationships
Was reading the Independent yesterday and came across an article about age gap relationships. It was about older women dating younger men, something that must be a media issue at the moment because I saw a header to a Vanessa Feltz article on the same subject a week or so back which I didn't actually get round to reading so can't comment on it. Anyway I was pleased to see in the Independent's article that someone had managed to write a whole page on the subject without calling the guys toy boys once.
I guess I'm a little surprized it's much of an issue as I don't even notice it anymore. I think the last time I was even aware was about ten years ago when I met some people where there was about a fifteen year age gap and I think I might have been more interested in the woman's amazing hair anyway. Possibly might have remembered too because she seemed a little nervous about the difference in ages I thought. I can still picture them in my mind very well. He was well cool too.
I was rather surprized that the age differences between the three couples interviewed were only 8,9 and 10 years. I mean .... 8 years. But I guess it's just the people you mix with that make you think like that because one of the men interviewed was rather creepy. There he was with his partner in a photo where she was holding their baby and the pratt said something like that he didn't know how he would feel about any changes in her body in about ten years time,he'd just have to wait and see. He was in his early 30s,she in her early 40s. She'd just had his baby for f**ks sake. I mean he really sounds a catch doesn't he.
I didn't much like the article at all to be honest and would've much prefered it to have been about age gap relationships in general because I thought as it was that it sold older women short. I really didn't like the quote about women having more testosterone after the menopause so at that age presumably in their late 40s or early to mid 50s they'd be up and doing a lot while the men at that age were slowing down which rather made the guys sound as if they were having trouble picking up the remote control to change TV channels. From what I've seen it all rather depends on the person's personality rather than gender.
There is a thread on the same subject on age gap relationships and the guys there didn't seem to see any problems.
I do wish that it had just been positive about age gap relationships in general instead of concentrating on older women/younger men so that it'd just seem normal. Which it is.
I've seen articles with women in their 40s and 50s saying that men their own age bore them. Heard them saying it too. Until recently it wasn't something that was of any interest to me in a personal way but things change. It sure depends on the guy. I was sitting on a train a few weeks ago and there were some guys in their late 20s/early 30s talking .. cricket and also making some bad and rather sexist jokes. They changed when they saw what I was reading but by this time my brain had registered boring, crap, sexist shits. Today I was on a train and I had a really interesting conversation with a 50 year old guy and he was really cool to chat to about a lot of things.
Read an article a little while ago by A N Wilson where he was talking about Eric Clapton and his young wife, a relationship that apparently is going very well despite a large age gap. I think she's in her 20s. Mr Wilson was saying that an age gap like that was his and supposedly all men's dream. Well, I suppose that tells us about A N Wilson anyway. I was wondering after reading that if older women are just echoing the same sentiments about younger men that he was about younger women after getting so fed up with hearing it for so long. I guess Mr Wilson is possibly one of the boring older men they are talking about. All men in their early 60s or around that age just want women in their 20s do they. Maybe that's what women are finding so boring, possibly both a lot of older and younger women.
Anyway I can say that not all 50 year old guys are looking for women in their 20s. Some like women around their own age Mr Wilson.
And for the older women I can say that in my very limited experience of men that there are 50 year old guys who aren't at all boring.
Just to add that this is about adults in age gap relationships.
I guess I'm a little surprized it's much of an issue as I don't even notice it anymore. I think the last time I was even aware was about ten years ago when I met some people where there was about a fifteen year age gap and I think I might have been more interested in the woman's amazing hair anyway. Possibly might have remembered too because she seemed a little nervous about the difference in ages I thought. I can still picture them in my mind very well. He was well cool too.
I was rather surprized that the age differences between the three couples interviewed were only 8,9 and 10 years. I mean .... 8 years. But I guess it's just the people you mix with that make you think like that because one of the men interviewed was rather creepy. There he was with his partner in a photo where she was holding their baby and the pratt said something like that he didn't know how he would feel about any changes in her body in about ten years time,he'd just have to wait and see. He was in his early 30s,she in her early 40s. She'd just had his baby for f**ks sake. I mean he really sounds a catch doesn't he.
I didn't much like the article at all to be honest and would've much prefered it to have been about age gap relationships in general because I thought as it was that it sold older women short. I really didn't like the quote about women having more testosterone after the menopause so at that age presumably in their late 40s or early to mid 50s they'd be up and doing a lot while the men at that age were slowing down which rather made the guys sound as if they were having trouble picking up the remote control to change TV channels. From what I've seen it all rather depends on the person's personality rather than gender.
There is a thread on the same subject on age gap relationships and the guys there didn't seem to see any problems.
I do wish that it had just been positive about age gap relationships in general instead of concentrating on older women/younger men so that it'd just seem normal. Which it is.
I've seen articles with women in their 40s and 50s saying that men their own age bore them. Heard them saying it too. Until recently it wasn't something that was of any interest to me in a personal way but things change. It sure depends on the guy. I was sitting on a train a few weeks ago and there were some guys in their late 20s/early 30s talking .. cricket and also making some bad and rather sexist jokes. They changed when they saw what I was reading but by this time my brain had registered boring, crap, sexist shits. Today I was on a train and I had a really interesting conversation with a 50 year old guy and he was really cool to chat to about a lot of things.
Read an article a little while ago by A N Wilson where he was talking about Eric Clapton and his young wife, a relationship that apparently is going very well despite a large age gap. I think she's in her 20s. Mr Wilson was saying that an age gap like that was his and supposedly all men's dream. Well, I suppose that tells us about A N Wilson anyway. I was wondering after reading that if older women are just echoing the same sentiments about younger men that he was about younger women after getting so fed up with hearing it for so long. I guess Mr Wilson is possibly one of the boring older men they are talking about. All men in their early 60s or around that age just want women in their 20s do they. Maybe that's what women are finding so boring, possibly both a lot of older and younger women.
Anyway I can say that not all 50 year old guys are looking for women in their 20s. Some like women around their own age Mr Wilson.
And for the older women I can say that in my very limited experience of men that there are 50 year old guys who aren't at all boring.
Just to add that this is about adults in age gap relationships.
posted by Lemuure at 12:11 PM
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