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That's kind of shallow. I'm almost 37 and I still get hit on by 20 yr old boys. When I was in my 20's I was foolish, immature, and lost. Most men are the same way in their 20's, just looking for an easy lay, unless they're stupid enough to get a girl pregnant.. Don't think ur any less just b/c of ur age. Just use better skin care products lol. No Botox.
I woman in her 40s also has a lot of options. There are tons of middle aged women who have ended relationships and started over. I would say that it is probably men in their 40s who have a more difficult time. He has to be attractive to women in his age group unless he wants to prey on naive girls young enough to be his daughter, or pay for his company.
Right? So many angry older men here
well they are angry because they aren't getting what they think they are entitled to.
My thoughts exactly
As a women in her 40's dating is definitely harder than when I was in my 20's.
I think they need to be realistic. Just like anybody. At 40, your options are less than what you had at 20. Not saying you can't find a quality man, but younger women are much more likely to date a quality man in their age range and older, while older women typically want someone their age or older. Men are more likely to want younger or the same age, so this dynamic makes it more difficult for women to find a man if they're older. Not to say it isn't possible, but they may have to drop their standards a little.
Just like average men need to understand that they will need to drop their standards if they can't obtain a woman in a specific league.
I'm going to be blunt and try to answer this. "I'm going to fuck every guy in town and fuck all your friends and people that may know you! Then after I have a few kids and need to pay the rent, I need a nice guy like you... but I'm serious now and I no longer have fun because I'm serious now... kids are all I care about, and the dog, then maybe you'll be part of what I care about." -If you were an average normal bro dude, would you go for that shit?
Like for real would you be like "hell yeah I can't wait to take care of these 3 man's kids!!!" "I can't wait to call the woman everybody in town and took to bang town is mine!!!" ? - I mean, be serious... would you want your son to 'just go' for that kind of bullshit?
I just think that's the problem because that seems to be the only option. If not they're still fucking all the guys in town and even having sex with their dog.
As you get older, your options for dating and marriage will lessen. This is both for men and women.
But I think what people need to realize that true love can happen between individuals of any age. Your right match may not be someone who is looks ideal, has the ideal age, has the perfect height or weight requirement. When you're young in your 20s-30s , you have plenty of options, so you can afford to be picky.
Once your dating pool shrinks, its time to drop your high standards about looks, age and weight, and start looking for someone you genuinely enjoy being around. Because reality is, true love has no looks, age, height or weight. The higher your standards about superficial things, the harder it is to find love.
"The wall comes for y'all."
A woman in her 40s has way fewer options than a woman in her 20s. Men aren't as a general rule, interested in whether she has a career or life experience or a nest egg.
Many women leave an unsatisfactory marriage and think life is going to treat them like they are 25 again, only to have reality give them a hard kicking.
Agreed, I know of many ladies who are 45+ that live alone and regret leaving their husbands. We have to be careful, however, because some ladies were in a marriage that was toxic. In the case of these ladies I spoke of they have expressed to me they were bored and wanted to enjoy life. Then later ran full speed into that "wall". The problem though is these younger females refuse to accept this and will call you all sorts of names. One of these ladies I spoke of was in tears trying to get a hard head 20-something female to not dump her husband.
I think it depends on the person. I think “youth” is a big deal for people with less of a personality, less charm, less charisma, less interesting, less humour. For those people then yea being young matters. But if you got a lot going on and you are interesting and engaging. You can get with people or any age. Age is extremely relevant if your relying on looks solely.
A woman in 40s is not some old goods or something that she foes not have any option.
In fact I think 35-40 is the perfect age as the woman is still young enough for the relationship activities like dating and all and at the same time has the needed experience of the world as a whole. I would say, the age actually broadens the range. At least for me.
Completely connected to prime years. A 15 yo won't have as many options as a 25 yo. A 35 yo will also not have as many options as a 25 yo.
You still have options at 35 but it's not the same and 45 even less. There's a threshold to be met. Past that everything gets worse with age lol. You have a few years to really crush it
Well I think if someone wants a family then... Dating a woman in her 40s it might be hard and any older then that nearly impossible. Now I don't think that they should settle there are good people out there.
I would date a older woman no problem. Just not way older unless I really fell for someone
Any women that I know it is in their forties I would be highly disappointed in them for settling because when a woman hits her forties that's her prime that's when she just get started at the same time it depends on what kind of heart she has who she is but she's all about most women that I know and they're 40 years old or more they're very confident
Are taking very good care of themselves and they do what they want
In my opinion, no it doesn't but unfortunately many people think that once a woman hits her 40's her life is over. A 40-something woman should never settle for less, she should go after what she wants because it's her right to do so and she deserves to be happy.
Let me tell you something. The last time I looked my sideburns were gray. I spend THREE times today than I did 30 years ago to maintain my body. People sometimes hate on me when I say this. But I would be dishonest if I said otherwise. Age to me is just a number. If she takes care of her body and does NOT smoke or have tats all over her body I will still find her sexually attractive even past 60. I am not sure if there is anything I can say further.
As someone who is only looking for a companion, I don't think it does. I had my kids when I was in my 20s, now I just want to have someone to have fun with. I also don't sleep around, and am not interested in starting a new family. My main obstacle with dating is the fact that men dislike the fact that I'm friends with my ex because of co-parenting.
It's simple reality. Women like to date guys older than them with more money, taller, more life experience, etc.
Men like to date the most attractive women they can.
A 40 year old woman has plenty of options, but she's probably not going to like most of them. Why? Because a 40 year old guy who is actually a good catch (good looking, works out, good job, house/car,) will be aiming to date 30 year old women, not 40 year old women. The 40 year old men who are willing to date a 40 year old woman will mostly be unattractive to her.
A 40 yr old man will never look better than a 30 yr old man. I'm 26 and I'm not attracted to 40 yr old farts with hair loss, weight gain, wrinkles. Because the reality is, 40 is when these ugly signs of aging start showing up. there's no way I would ever be attracted to that, even if I were a 30 or 40 yr old woman.
Ugly old farts should start looking in the mirror rather than day dreaming about how hot they are
@shaysh87 That's part of the problem for 40 year old women. Most people don't take good care of themselves--those are the exceptions, so over time there's fewer good looking people. 40 year old women get on dating apps and most 40 year old men are not attractive. The few who took care of themselves (exercise, nutrition, sleep, avoiding drugs and alcohol) are the standouts who will be ignoring 40 year old women and dating younger.
Not to mention, a huge percent of women at 40 will be wrinkly ugly overweight farts themselves, who are not attracted to the wrinkly ugly overweight men who are willing to date them..
@RationalMale
I'm just here to tell you that your options do not get better as you age too. So its about time you put your arrogant ass down and find someone before nobody wants to look at you.
@shaysh87 My options get better to a degree and to a certain limit.
At 40? My options will certainly be better than a 40 year old woman's options, but my options at 40 will be shite compared to my options at 30, even assuming I am careful to live healthy, eat right, etc.
@RationalMale
haha I really tear up laughing at how some guys say your options get better in your 40s. Your options get worse in your 40s, ok? I'm 26, I dont know of any girls my age dying to date a man in his 40s. Vast majority of us , over 90% are dating guys 20s-30s. I'm a woman, I know what women are attracted to. And trust me, its not guys in their 40s
@shaysh87 I don't think you read my comment... I literally said my dating options at 40 will be shite compared to my dating options at 30. Even if I take care of myself great and have a high paying job, there simply won't be as many single women, and of the single women interested in dating me, far less of them will be attractive dates.
You're not gonna get any women looking your way unless you have a lot of money. I'm not talking about just 100,000k. 100k doesn't buy much nowadays. I'm talking wayy more than that. Most of these women would just be gold diggers.
@shaysh87 I think maybe you are a spam bot. No offense but I'm going to block you.
All i know is that 21 year olds are useless for house wife material. By the way you don't look 40 I must say you look 25 at least. You look much more younger then stupid 21 year olds. A 21 year old can't cook or clean. I don't understand what 30 year old man see in them. I am 29 but people always tell me I look 19 . I've seen 21 year old woman with wrinkles on their face so now a days it's hard to know how old people could be.
Most of the women here are deluded children. They will pay the consequences on their skin. At 40 you will have the same chances as a man of having relationships because your beauty will be gone and you will be whining about bad men. The same chances of a man means that compared to what you have had so far they are scarce. Most of the female friends and co-workers around my age who used to be beautiful women no longer consider them anyone, not even for a quickie.
what makes you think I'm attracted to 40 yr old farts with hair loss, weight gain, wrinkles? do you really think your options get better as you get uglier, wrinklier, fatter, lose more hair as you age?
@shaysh87 people will be not anymore attracted by you that is your main problem, by the way is your problem, not mine, buy cats your new lifemates.
vast majority of 40 yr old guys aren't attractive. just letting you know.
vast majority of young women date / marry men in their 20s-30s, not 40s
At 40 there are fewer interested men, same applies for men looking in their 40's. There are fewer single men and women in that age range. One could date younger but not a lot of folks want to date someone significantly older. It's simple math, not ageism. You will also find more jilted and jaded folks who have gone through a divorce to choose from.
I was not emotionally or morally mature in my teens and twenties so I believe I’m more attractive now.
These are clear tells for me. Which men are mature and have actual experience, and which men are not and are blowing hot air.