i was all for dating younger men, but not that young. then, i heard rumours he was on the dating apps – and matching with people. i was hell-bent on finding him, so i googled his age. i didn’t find a paul mescal but i did find a tom, 25, who was cute, loved dogs, and had the kind of app-banter i loved. it wasn’t the most magical date of all time, but it was pretty special and i knew …

olivia rogers (not her real name) was a successful doctor, separated from her husband and the mother of four teenagers. it didn’t matter to me because she was young of mind and spirit.” over a lunch of chinese food, nussbaum positively beams as he describes the merits of being involved with an older woman and, in particular, olivia. he says, “it was a lesson: i was with a mature and powerful woman.” the younger person may want to rock and …

freshly divorced, i had three children between 11 and 19. david had left a reporting job in indiana to move to oregon so that he could take care of his grandmother, who had raised him after his mother left the family. he was an avid surfer and i liked hanging on the beach with our dogs. he wanted to start a family, and i already had one. the fact that i looked younger than my years didn’t help the cause …

is the younger person subconsciously seeking out a parental figure? is the older person just looking for someone younger and aesthetically pleasing? to determine the range of what is considered socially acceptable, divide your own age in half and then add seven. to get 22, you divide 30 in half, leaving you with 15 remaining, and then add seven more to arrive at 22. not everyone will agree with the results of this formula – and it is not supported …

there are many temptations to organize our life around the experience of earlier trauma. they met when he was 15. although they were not romantically involved until they were both adults, the public scrutiny emmanuel and brigitte have experienced over the years is a sign of the times. today.com dedicated a piece to the expressed reasons younger men love older women. research by gloria cowan (1984) found that relationships in which the woman was older were perceived as less likely …