What's your range of age in dating? How much older or younger are you comfortable with?
People can be mature or immature beyond their years. I've known people in their early twenties to be quite mature just as I've known some in their thirties and forties who really needed to grow up.
I would like to distinguish between maturity and being young-at-heart. Being young-at-heart can be expressed as playfulness and retaining a sense of optimism and sense of wonder as opposed to just acting like a child with little self control or awareness beyond self.
I'm a 50 year old man. When I was in my 20s of course I found women of the same age very attractive. Now I can often find them to be almost like children. It isn't that I cannot find any of them physically attractive, but beyond noticing the physical more often than not I find their general behaviour and outlook too limited for me to get seriously interested. It's now a rare women in her 20s that will catch my attention beyond noticing that she might be pretty.
The thing is that it isn't just about maturity. There is the issue of similar values--perhaps something more important than similar interests--and the fact that someone closer to your own age will also more likely share a similar history and life experience. A younger person's knowledge of real world history may likely be something they read in a text book while you actually recall when it happened.
As it is my general cut-off for dating a younger woman would be about 30-35. And candidly I generally would prefer dating someone closer to my own age, and as such a woman in her 40s would be far more likely to catch my interest. Of course, there may always be exceptions.
On the flip side I have to admit a measure of chauvinism. It would be a rare woman to catch my interest if she were much older than two or three years beyond my own age. That said there are a great many women these days who look amazing in their 50s. They're, fit, vital, full of life and yet not burdened by childish girly behaviour. They often have had their shit together for some time.
Thoughts anyone?
People can be mature or immature beyond their years. I've known people in their early twenties to be quite mature just as I've known some in their thirties and forties who really needed to grow up.
I would like to distinguish between maturity and being young-at-heart. Being young-at-heart can be expressed as playfulness and retaining a sense of optimism and sense of wonder as opposed to just acting like a child with little self control or awareness beyond self.
I'm a 50 year old man. When I was in my 20s of course I found women of the same age very attractive. Now I can often find them to be almost like children. It isn't that I cannot find any of them physically attractive, but beyond noticing the physical more often than not I find their general behaviour and outlook too limited for me to get seriously interested. It's now a rare women in her 20s that will catch my attention beyond noticing that she might be pretty.
The thing is that it isn't just about maturity. There is the issue of similar values--perhaps something more important than similar interests--and the fact that someone closer to your own age will also more likely share a similar history and life experience. A younger person's knowledge of real world history may likely be something they read in a text book while you actually recall when it happened.
As it is my general cut-off for dating a younger woman would be about 30-35. And candidly I generally would prefer dating someone closer to my own age, and as such a woman in her 40s would be far more likely to catch my interest. Of course, there may always be exceptions.
On the flip side I have to admit a measure of chauvinism. It would be a rare woman to catch my interest if she were much older than two or three years beyond my own age. That said there are a great many women these days who look amazing in their 50s. They're, fit, vital, full of life and yet not burdened by childish girly behaviour. They often have had their shit together for some time.
Thoughts anyone?
