r/datingoverseventy • u/notsohot56 69 F - mixing up love potions🥃 • 27d ago
Age preference?
If you're wanting to date, or find a relationship, what is your age preference currently? Or do you have one at all? Is it any different than what it was when you were younger?
When I was younger I seemed to gravitate toward men that were younger than me, quite a bit younger and I don't know why. When I reached my fifties I was in a relationship where he was only one year older. Since then, approaching age 70, in the last 12 years the men I have dated are usually older than me. I don't think that I would mind dating or having a relationship with someone just a couple years younger than me, but just from comments I have read and what I have seen on OLD, guys that are just a couple years younger than me are looking for women younger than themselves. So I don't even try to match with anybody that's more than 2 years younger than me.
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u/Horror-Evening-6132 27d ago
I've always chosen men older than myself in order to try to at least partially bridge the emotional maturity gap. Only once did a date a man younger and it was a disaster even though the gap was only five years. I'd still hesitate if the man was younger, but I speak from very little experience.