Comments on the dating app Hinge, for instance, include: “I have to have you in my life!”
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I → include → life
Are they looking for a mom?
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they → look → mom
But what if we’re too tired to teach new dogs old tricks?
Age-gap relationships usually go the other way; older men traditionally tend to go for significantly younger women.
Not anymore.
I’m seriously flattered by the hearthrob young male’s attention — though not convinced.
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I → ’re → attention
These young hotties really know how to stroke your ego and perhaps cause you to consider such offers as this one: “You are legit so ethereal and stunning that I choked on my drink and wrecked my shirt.
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I → know → shirt
So since you owe me one, why don’t you come out and see me at one of my USC games?
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you → owe → games
Well, I don’t know.
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I → know → ?
Maybe because I don’t want to run into your (likely younger) mother!
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I → want → mother
So why is this happening?
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this → happen → ?
I got curious and boldly inquired of these new kids on the block why they are even interested in women our age.
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they → get → women
Navid says, “Attractive older women are the best-kept secret.”
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women → say → ?
While Adrian adds older women “have always been more direct and intentional with their desires and play fewer games.
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women → add → games
Mike says, “I think younger men are realizing that attraction isn’t always about chasing youth.
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attraction → say → youth
Sometimes the woman who gets inside your head is the one you end up wanting closest to your body.
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you → get → body
Sadly, he’s still closer to my kid’s age than mine.
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he → ’ → mine
But some of my older friends have been ecstatic at their youthful paramours: My girl Kittie in New York, also 64, recently had a spicy hot fling with a gentleman in her business.
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girl → have → business
(He’s 38.)
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He → ’ → ?
She says, “They are far more enthusiastic and experimental in bed, much more eager to please and definitely more physically appealing most times.”
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They → say → bed
Kittie adds: “They provide a feeling of being young again.”
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They → add → feeling
As for the cons, Kittie says her hard-bodied boyfriend suffers from a lack of “emotional maturity” and is “not as financially stable,” so he’s not as great an option to plan a future with.
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he → say → future
Then there’s my fabulous gal pal Ruby, for whom I have mad respect, who is now in Miami.
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who → ’ → Miami
She cited her pros of dating younger: “Looks, experimental, open-minded, energetic, curious, love nightlife, have new ideas, they worship you and arrive with less baggage.”
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they → cite → baggage
She is now 83, but at the age of 60, she unapologetically dated a 27 year old — long-term!
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she → date → old
Even after all I learned, I couldn’t understand why young men would want to be with our, ahem, older bodies.
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men → learn → bodies
As Ruby told me then, “They don’t care about our insecurities.
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They → tell → insecurities
They often just want a warm, cool woman who is fun!”
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who → want → woman
All the same; dating your own age has supreme advantages.
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dating → date → advantages
It’s nice to share the art, music, film and cultural references of your own time.
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It → ’ → time
And for a senior lady, dating a young man doesn’t always mesh with the social circles of her peers.
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dating → date → peers
Classic celebrity crushes like Ryan Gosling, Mark Wahlberg, Jason Bateman and Brad Pitt have all aged like fine wines.
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crushes → age → wines
But, despite being a better match on paper, the well-kept successful men of advanced age are naturally in high demand.
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men → keep → demand
So we return, inexorably, to Adonis.
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we → return → Adonis
More research revealed a striking fact: An Australian study determined that both men and women initially reported greater marital satisfaction when they had younger spouses.
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they → reveal → spouses
Perhaps this Year of the Cougar is evening things out, after all.
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Year → even → things
Liz Angeles is a massage therapist who runs Just What You Knead in Santa Monica.
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You → run → Monica
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