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I've got a vague flirtation going on...with a guy whom I believe to be six years younger than me. Now, my last two boyfriends were two and three years younger than me, but six years, psychologically at least, is a pretty big gap for me.

I sort of want to see if he's interested in going to the next level (never mind that I've got plenty of hangups that have nothing to do with this man's age). Anyone out there willing and able to speak from the experience of an age gap of this nature? Any idea how many men are capable of saying "Well, I thought she was cool/witty/intelligent; now I guess she's cool/witty/intelligent and six years older than me"?

(FWIW: People routinely guess that I'm six or seven years younger than I actually am.)

j.lu, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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For reasons of university the question of my age *will* come up if he and I have a getting-to-know-you chat.

j.lu, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i always seem to always get seduced by married ladies over 30. i love em.

chaki, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You rascal.

Generally speaking the loves of my life have been near or at my age, or a little older. I've been captivated more than once by noticeably older women, though. Really, it's all about your brain and how you use it -- the rest comes naturally. :-)

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was 21, I dated a 28-year-old for a while. There was a certain amount of culture-disjunction, but basically I just thought she was really great. (Still do, 11 years later--she flew across the country to come to my wedding last year, and I stayed at her place when I was in Seattle last week.)

Douglas, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Never done it. It's one of my regrets. The oldest person in absolute terms I've ever kissed, even, is a month younger than me. I mean, when I was younger, there were brief dalliances with older-ish girls, the most obvious being a snog with a 24-year-old when I was 17. I felt big and clever the day after that, I can tell you. But never with a properly mature woman older than myself. Does that make sense?

So I'D like to hear about it too. And if anyone wants to fix me up with someone 34+, let me know :-)

Mark C, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Until now.

I have been applying all of my high school level math skill to this ageless problem and have derived a mathematical formula that computes your socially acceptable age range.

Let’s say you are a lonely 30-year-old guy and are looking for love. How can you tell whether the rest of the online world is going to think you are creepy or not? It is actually very simple.

If your age is X and you wish to calculate age Y (the youngest person it is acceptable for you to date), simply divide your age by two, then add a creep factor of 6. The formula looks like this:

Y=(X/2)+6

Thus, our 30 year old guy would replace X with 30 and, after doing some math, would discover that Y=21. Thus, as long as the girl he was begging for nudes from was at least 21, he will not meet with societal disapproval.

The cool thing about this is that, as you get older, more people become available to you. For example, if you are 20, the minimum age of your possible partners is 16. That’s only four years worth of people. However, if you are 80, the minimum age shifts to 46. That is 34 years worth of people, my friend.

numnuts, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait a minute - you can have just as many people whether you're 80 or 18. You assume that everyone wants someone younger.

Until very recently, anyone more than four years younger was off my radar, but...I did some reading, and five or six years isn't all that much, really and I'm starting to relax about it. The other day, I saw a married couple in a magazine - she was 33, he was 18. Now that is way too young for me. With a gap of 5-6 years, there are some cultural and life experience differences, but it's essentially the same generation.

If you go online and look at older woman / younger man stuff, you'll see they're usually talking about 10-20 years or more. Six years, IME, is kind of on the cusp of being 'too young' in that it could fall either way.

Sez Hu, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I once dated a man that was 25 years old when I was 17. It didn't last long though, he was also from Jordan and I couldn't understand much of what he said because of his accent.

I have no problems dating much older (not retirement home-old though) but I do have a huge problem dating someone younger than myself. Last year (at the age of 19)I was dating someone I thought to be 18 years old. However he lied to me and was only 17 (in fact when we began dating he was only 16, I celebrated his 17th birthday with him). I could've been breaking the law if we had sex. Here's a tip for all of you: Get your hands on their driver's license and check the age for yourself.

What do you think my attempts to avoid dating youngers guys and my attraction to older men (not over 39-that's the cut off) means? I must say that my best and longest relationship was with someone only 1 year older than myself.

Lindsey B, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A scene deleted form the original version of High Fidelity pointed out thata the best sexual match would be a 50 year old woman and a 15 year old boy, as then sexual peak is highest

mike hanle y, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought it was supposed to be 18 and 35. If they revise these figures much more it's going to start getting a bit creepy. Actually 15 and 50 is already a bit queer. Who can account for this disparity in sociobiological terms? What is the point of all these post-menopausal sex mani

N., Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

iacs..

N., Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

NICK WON'T BE HAPPY UNTIL ITS A 3 SECOND YEAR OLD AND A 200 YEAR OLD

mike hanle y, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

NICK WON'T BE HAPPY UNTIL ITS A 3 SECOND YEAR OLD AND A 200 YEAR OLD

Fie on thee; take yer smut to the NAMBLA BB.

Seriously, though; thanks for the input. I also ran the question by some friends this weekend, who were all supportive. We'll see what happens...

j.lu, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A few months ago I dated a 21 year-old (I'm 34).

Sean, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not that anyone will care, I dated a woman six years older than me. We (gasp!) married. That was twenty years ago. It worked out OK, near as I can tell.

As a fringe benefit, if you compare average life expectancies for men and women, we should both die around the same time. That business of marrying a woman two or three years younger than yourself just strews the landscape with teeming masses of widows looking for something else to fill up their last decade of life.

Little Nipper, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a prediliction for younger boys, who I believe to be innocent. Don't go there. You will regret it. You need an equal.

deepak, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I mean do go there.

deepak, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Helen Mirren walking past my house on Sunday!

Dr. C, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As a fringe benefit, if you compare average life expectancies for men and women, we should both die around the same time.

Where? In the UK at least, life expectancy for men is 74.5 and for women it's almost 80.

N., Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But she's six years older - eg when he's 74, she'll be 80

Graham, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was just saying.

Little Nipper's analysis fails to countenance the possibility that women might have a whale of a time once their useless hubbies are out of the way. What was that research about marriage making men happier and women less so? Feminists, come to my aid.

N., Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh - I see now. I misunderstood the 'we'.

N., Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Update, if anyone's paying attention: I just found out through a mutual friend that this guy is only 4 years younger than me. So I guess that would be a logical progress, given that last year I was with a guy who was 3 years younger, and 2 years ago with a guy who was 2 years younger.

j.lu, Wednesday, 1 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My husband's 19 years older than me.

Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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bosko, Monday, 14 June 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

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bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 16:45 (fourteen years ago)

Got a date lined up for Wednesday night. I'm not sure how much older this woman is (she's got a 3 year old and a 4 year old) but she is a FIREFIGHTER!
Awesome, imo. I'm just excited to talk to someone with an attention span. Sick of dating children.

Trip Maker, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:46 (fourteen years ago)

firefighters are in some serious shape!

got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:15 (fourteen years ago)

she is a FIREFIGHTER!

never date a woman stronger than you!

not_goodwin, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:16 (fourteen years ago)

whatever!

got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:26 (fourteen years ago)

scrunch up her buttcheeks and rip your dick off.

OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:34 (fourteen years ago)

omg

got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:35 (fourteen years ago)

cannot laugh that hard at work

got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:35 (fourteen years ago)

She has a big motorcycle in her garage, too.
She doesn't look so tough, I duno. She is very cool, though.

Trip Maker, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

i hope she aint hiding a hose in those pants.

zing.

OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:42 (fourteen years ago)

ha ha wtf - are you trying to balance out the seriousness of your posts on the breakup thread right now?!

got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:45 (fourteen years ago)

yes. makes me feel better.

OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

put this on when you bring her back to yours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjcSxUQ6N88

I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:49 (fourteen years ago)

trip, i can't help feeling that by the end of this date she is going to yell out "bring out the gimp".

OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:50 (fourteen years ago)

letting her bench-press you counts as foreplay.

got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:51 (fourteen years ago)

http://scienceblogs.com/isisthescientist/upload/2009/03/stuff_you_send_me/bring-out-the-gimp.jpg

OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:52 (fourteen years ago)

at least make her wear the boots!

OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)

Threads like this give me hope. And some other feelings that are weird, and deeply confusing.

Trayce, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 22:35 (fourteen years ago)

I'm 41 and my SO of 2 years is a mere 33. She does keep on telling me how lucky I am... Which is true for many, many reasons.

Stone Monkey, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 23:06 (fourteen years ago)

Got hit on my a woman 2x my age. First she announces she's a cougar and should leave me alone, and then repeatedly comes back in hopes that the convo before and the convo before was the last one to be awkward. They are repeatedly awkward.

The funny thing is, this was at the Dum Dum Girl's concert, and I'm pretty sure this woman was the drummer's mom.

The previous message has been brought to you by (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 23:14 (fourteen years ago)

Who actually uses "hi I'm a cougar" as a pickup line? Ugh.

Trayce, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 03:42 (fourteen years ago)

you should try it out!

got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 04:00 (fourteen years ago)

i always seem to always get seduced by married ladies over 30. i love em.

http://i54.tinypic.com/11l4yvn.gif

buzza, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 04:00 (fourteen years ago)

Thermo I dont need to ;P

Trayce, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 04:01 (fourteen years ago)

I don't "need" to do a lot of things but that doesn't mean it's not a great idea

mh, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 04:08 (fourteen years ago)

*takes notes*

Trayce, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 04:09 (fourteen years ago)

*adds to list of crepey ilx posts*

mh, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 04:09 (fourteen years ago)

i almost exclusively date older women and imo it is a good plan. they're more able to have conversations than young women. </ageist.>

not everything is a campfire (ian), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 04:33 (fourteen years ago)

I've never really dated an older woman, the closest I've had are girls who were born in the same year as me but earlier. I definitely have been interested in a few, but nothing beyond kissing has ever happened. It's kinda sad.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 08:14 (fourteen years ago)

*adds to list of crepey ilx posts*

;_;

Trayce, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 09:30 (fourteen years ago)

ben franklin on why older mistresses are better

mookieproof, Friday, 25 February 2011 19:03 (fourteen years ago)

Totally scored with the firefighter.

Trip Maker, Friday, 25 February 2011 19:06 (fourteen years ago)

the closest I've had are girls who were born in the same year as me but earlier

this is cracking me up

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 25 February 2011 19:06 (fourteen years ago)


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