What age range do you prefer when dating, and why?

[Anonymous]

I usually go 18-25. Not into older men. What about you?

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Generally speaking:

• Conversations with someone much younger than me is going to bottleneck, which inevitably brings = pressure.
• Going out with someone much younger is going to get flagged, usually not in a good way, and when it's viewed as positive, it's even more annoying, so = pressure.
• Someone much younger is visibly much younger, so I'm going to get insecure about the contrast in looks = pressure.

I'm not talking about older and much older scenarios because I have no practical experience of it. So my preferred range is the good old 10 years age range.

[MrChinaski]

Yes.

But think about what you could learn from someone much younger. The whole world they have lived in is different. Their interpretation of meaning is different. The luggage they carry is different. Surely it's a chance to refresh, to throw out the bits of you that calcified years ago and are no longer doing work, and rebuild new aspects of yourself.

I'm not saying I'm Epstein.

Age is just a specific example of my general thesis that you gain the most from being genuinely close to people that are as different from you as you can stand to live with.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

... I'm really in doubt, is your first paragraph irony, or parody, about of a trope regarding age gap or is it serious lol.

If it's a parody, it's very well done, I love it 😂

If it's serious, well, this new perspective you're thinking about, I prefer to have it when talking with my daughter (bc she's in her 20s) or any friend much younger than me. Because then, I dont need to work with pressure I mentioned, it's a win-win scenario.

[MrChinaski]

I'm serious. But your point is fair.

[Anonymous]

Nowadays as I'm 32 - I'd say I realistically probably could only still attract women who are late 20s - yet that's not to say early 20s say 20-21 that I could still potentially date - or agreed to date 🌹 short term long term

Yet who am I fooling, I'm single and likely will remain single, no tears 😅🤭

[MrChinaski]

Men's dating capital peaks about 30. Enjoy it.

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

I have always gone with a +/- 10 year rule just because I feel comfortable with that range. It's not too young and dealing with immature people and it's not too old as to where I wouldn't have nothing in common with them.

Luckily with my wife she is only.4 years younger than me and my boyfriend is 3 years older than me which works out perfectly as it's even closer in age than I would allow normally.

[petitedollbabee]

25 minimum, 35 maximum. I don’t date below my age and I don’t date above 10 years difference.

[Still-alive]

Ah nuts 😅

[NicholasofAustralia]

Good to know 😊🙂

[Nikki1989]

Back in the day I always dated much older. I prefer men; dating immature brats was never my thing.

[MrChinaski]

Old enough that they know themselves, not so old that they hate the world.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Phew.
If the first part of the sentence was missing, we would have had a serious issue because many teenagers hate the world lolol

[MrChinaski]

@Maybe_Maybe_not Fair. My recollection is happiness rises from teenage years through to 30 or so, then crashes in mid life 30-50, and rises again 50-75. And then you get sick and die. Surprise ending, I know.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

You remember your own future Chinaski? How odd 😏

I personally remember a crash 20-35, and a rise after that, so following our own story logic, it explains a few things lol

[MrChinaski]

@Maybe_Maybe_not Hmmm. We're both kind of wrong. Or both kind of right. www.margithenderson.com/.../

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

We can't be wrong when we're talking about our own happiness meter, because there's no right or wrong, just our own perceptions

[Alex-Snow]

I'm 20 and anywhere from 18 to 26 at the moment is ok by me

[Anonymous]

I prefer around my age, 28. My preference seems to be about 4 months younger.

[Still-alive]

Maybe about like 25-50. After college to middle age

[Anonymous]

I don't meet the requirements or the criteria of datings.

[Zionne]

I started dating for fun when i was 13

[Sunnyrjs]

Around similar age to me