I am not sure women after a certain age are truely compatible with men. Men and women seem to help define each others adult sexual identity as sexually potent beings As our potency declines, or the honeymoon of youth ends, many women are left with firm identities. Men are left with ineffectual working parts, lack of emotional growth, and certain criteria and needs that women in their 50 would not exchange their freedom for their partnership. Men are only for our youths unless they exceptional.
I am in my mid 40s and have been in an unhappy marriage for many years. I must be one of those rare men because I find women in their 50s mentally stimulating therefore attractive. Once I can end my marriage I most likely will not date a woman younger than in her late 40s. Older women, for the most part, have life experience and know what they want. The maturity they bring with them is what I seek.
Men and women were different
There’s also no need to bash or look down on women in their 30’s or 40’s or their life circumstances just to uplift women in their 50’s. People have the right to have preferences . Whether they can partner up with their “ideal” person, that’s another story. For some people it can be hard to have reasonable expectations. At least as a woman in my 30’s I choose not to be upset about men my age dating younger ladies. I have some preferences myself, so I’m no one to judge.
Don’t let it rule your lives
There are many good people out there. I know you will find that special someone who will love you just they way you are. Keep up the fight and the outreach. Something tells me there are millions of men like us. But the dating system is not built for us at this age. Talking about it together is a great step forward.
When women say “details of my divorce aren’t really important,” it means she cheated on her husband. A’s a man in his mid 50’s dating a woman in her mid 30’s, I will tell you the reason. It’s over for you, you’re too damaged, not too old.
And you can take it to the bank that those women my age who are stylish and attractive are already taken. Baggage is a problem when you get older. I’d like to get into a new relationship but recent health issues have slowed that. But when I do I’m worried that https://datingmentor.net I’ll be tempted to go too fast because its lonely having no one in your life. And if she tries to then I’ll probably worry she might change like my ex wife did. With my ex she sometimes got so irrationally angry that I was afraid she might kill me in my sleep.
It seems that most men my age don’t want a commitment of any kind but just want to play around, especially with younger women. The problem is that we’ve all been burned, and most of us don’t handle it well. Women and men both have become very self-centered. It is hard to be vulnerable anymore for fear of being taken advantaged of.
It took several weeks for me to be able to get and sustain an erection. I am coming off of a failed relationship after trying years to save it. Now there is a woman who wants to be with me and I can’t get an erection? I panic and think she is going to leave.
Im 54 and I am on a couple of dating sites. I post just my profile picture, username, age and city and that is it! I get 25 to 30 messages a day from different woman and an average of 45 – 50 that have viewed my profile. You are completely wrong and have no idea what you’re talking about. I am a 50 year old woman and want sex more now than I ever did in my 20’s, and every woman I know my age feels the same. Because we r sitting here reading posts that say we may as well accept the fact that we are going to be alone the rest of our lives.
I found him online a year after he remarried looking for some action on the side. So then when she bails (75% of all post age-50 divorces are initiated by the woman), she’ll still have her married girlfriends for support, but us guys are often left high and dry. This is why I have worked very hard over the past decade to make, keep, and solidify male friendships, both fairly new and from decades ago. Pick up the phone and make that call, schedule lunch just to catch up, etc. A key element, of course, is that it has to be a two-way street. That work has paid off in that I now have a good network of male friends who are there for support and camaraderie.
My mind and emotions flow which tends to alienate me from my fellows. Few can follow the threads of thought. I want a friend who can talk about Sartre to Siddhartha, politics to poetry and yet still weep and the words of Yeats. Surely there must be such a one, and yet, I may pass into infinity never knowing a mind like mine. But what about a simple friendship with a woman of substance. What you’re describing is female hypergamy.
And I still have a very healthy interest. At least there are women over 50 who are honest in the descriptions and make it very clear that they are no longer interested in sex. In response to “A Man”…….at age 50 when I say I miss the companionship of a man, I mean I miss everything about the relationship with a man. That means emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and physical. I have nothing against sex and I feel it is an important part of a successful loving relationship.