Whose he living with? His mama?

Wouldn't mind sponging, uh...meant living off of...er, WITH...T Mama!

Yes sir us middle age single mom college students live mighty high on hog

Do you mean dating?

No: The song just changes....It's Fun Fun Fun since her Grandson took her T-Bird away

The problem that I've found with trying to date women my own age is that I rarely have much in common with them in terms of interests and lifestyle. I have never really understood why I shouldn't still be into the same things that I was into when I was in my twenties but these "mature" women seem to judge me for it. It also sounds like sour grapes when people on here try to say that younger women only want you for your money. I'm certainly not rich, even if I am an old perv and I flatter myself that the younger women that I've dated did so because they liked me as a person, or found me attractive.

It's just a fact that it becomes harder to meet new people as you get older and there are more single younger women that aren't set in their ways, with their quota of friends than there are attractive and available "mature" women. I don't believe in the conforming to society's expectations thing but I do believe that we go through different things at different times in our lives and I think that it's more about timing than anything else. That's as close as I get to saying that it's just fate who you meet and get involved with.

If maturity comes into it at all it's that you tend to develop as a person through your interpersonal relationships. I sometimes say that I was immature when I met the woman that I refer to as my ex and she certainly seemed to think that I was but the truth was that we were both going through stuff at the time and that somehow made us compatible for a while at least. She called it a casual relationship and it was in a way because we didn't live in each other's pockets and didn't make a longterm commitment and it was on and off but we wouldn't have kept getting back together if we hadn't had genuine feelings for each other and in my mind a relationship is serious if it really means something to me, whatever it may be like.

Maybe that's just me though and go ahead and call me immature for being an old fool that gets emotionally involved even when they aren't looking for someone to spend the rest of their life with. That's maybe the main difference. Younger people generally aren't but it doesn't make them immature. They just know that they have plenty of time to find someone that's right for them and one of the reasons that my ex gave me for not making a commitment was that she didn't think that I would be able to look after her in her old age.

age doesnt matter anyway

Oh dear. The more time goes by, the more Summer Repeats we have to see.

"I can relate better to women who are immature like me." Duh.

"Age is just a number." Yup, one that you notice more at some times than at others.

Here's the thing. It's a very simple formula.

If you find yourself trying to figure out a way to explain why you are with, or chasing someone who is a significantly different age from you, it means only one thing:

It bothers YOU.

And that IS all that matters. So don't even bother trying to PUBLICLY excuse yourself, that wont save you from your own judgement problems.

Put your energy into figuring out why the age difference DOES bother you so much, so that you can deal honestly with the people you are, or intend to victimize. For both your sakes.

Thank you Igor.... my friend I didn't want to type it again so now you did it for most of us..

I did some research on this a while back because I am interested in younger women and something one dating guru said made a lot of sense.

There are three types of younger women; ones that are interested in older guys; ones that aren't and don't want to date them; then there are the ones that don't particularly care about age and might be open to the idea. If you're an older guy looking for younger women type 1 and 3 you have a chance with but you're wasting your time with type 2. I won't give you his rationalisations about why, in his opinion, older guys have an advantage over younger guys and are desirable because that's likely to spark off the usual arguments and snarky comments but that only demonstrates that he's correct and that people have different feelings about it.

That's pretty much true when it comes to any compatibility topic. All we basically do here is post our opinions and feelings about the matter. We talk about our experiences and it will go on forever, with the same people saying the same things, or maybe altering their opinions a bit. All that you can really do is speak for yourself at the end of the day and bear in mind that the man's proposition is sound enough when he says that there are people that have strong opinions one way or another and the undecided inbetween.