It’s not about Harrison Ford and Ally McBeal or Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, but rather ageless love.
I was writing my next Providence Journal column and decided to include in it a questions asked of me about older men dating younger women and vice versa. I think older women who date younger men are confident and not afraid to be both nurturing and sexy at the same time.
Whereas men who date younger women often do so because they are afraid of getting old. They somehow feel that the younger woman will help them to feel young again. Was this the case with Harrison Ford and Ally McBeal? And was this Sir Paul McCartney’s mistake?
One friend told me that oftentimes younger women “are looking for a meal ticket.” That may have been true at one time, but Internet dating sites are reporting that younger women are more reluctant to date older men these days. Only about 25% of women are looking to date men 10 years older. Chicks-Dig-Younger looking-Men
Whereas the BBC reports an increase in marriages between younger men and older women.
So perhaps love and romance is really about values and qualities that you respect in another. I can’t stress values often enough. Read the postings under “Lies” to the right under Categories.
However to find out your compatibility regardless of age, take this quiz. Ageless Love Quiz.
Copyright 2008 Rita Watson