Batdz - did you ever regret that? This is timely. I’m 33 and strongly considering taking up with a totally inexperienced 18 year old.
The best relationships I had, including with hubby, seem to have all been with younger men. Dunno why and don’t care - it just kinda happened that way. It also happens that I have more academic credentials than hubby and I’ve almost always made more money than he has. Those things seem to matter more to him than to me.
Be that as it may, seems to me, once you’re legal, age matters little…
“Batdz - did you ever regret that? This is timely. I’m 33 and strongly considering taking up with a
totally inexperienced 18 year old.”
Seems like a nice idea. Don’t be concerned about what other people think. If the woman likes you then go for it.
In Praise of Older Women
I’m 36 and my SO is 45. She’s smart (PhD., partner in a psychotherapy practice), funny, attractive, still has a figure that many younger women would kill for, and, best of all, has enough life experience to be fascinating. No hangups, no regrets, getting on with life type of woman. I feel very lucky.
I kid her that when she hits 50 I’m going to trade her in on two 25 year olds. She laughs and then we have sheet scorching sex for a few hours. What the hell’s not to like about that?
As long as you’re in good enough shape to outrun her Daddy, Commander Fortune!
Well, when I was 30, I placed a personal ad and had a nice fellow answer. We talked back and forth and decided to have dinner. He showed up with a flower, and laughed when we went out to look at his car and birds had pooped all over it. I think I was in love right then.
I had asked for men between 25-35 to answer the ad, so I expected he was in there somewhere. But something came up in conversation that made me ask- “wait, so how old are you, anyway?”
Long pause.
“Well, I’m almost 22.”
Huh. He’s 8 years younger than me. He couldn’t name all the Beatles, he didn’t have a high school diploma he was unemployed and lived with his parents at the time. But we fell madly in love and none of that stuff mattered; we got along well, laughed at a lot of the same stuff, and since he was relatively inexperienced, I had the opportunity to train him up right, if you’ll pardon the expression. That was nice… Even though he didn’t have the degree, he was still smart, and even though he didn’t have a job then he had one soon after. All this to point out that if you’re compatible in the right ways, some of the other stuff tends to work itself out. He’s Mr.Mielikki now, and I still kid him about the ‘almost 22’ line.
The woman that married us, BTW, is dating and planning to marry a man 18 years younger than her.
Good luck to you!
I’m the woman, he’s 18.
Dude, skip it. Find a younger women, sans PHD.
What are you, a glutten for punishment?