Why age does not always play a role

Submitted by Curious (United States), Aug 11, 2009 at 10:26

I think we've already established that there are lots of players and scammers with motivation for money, sex, or a green card, but until they begin cloning people, you'd be foolish to posit that everyone is a scammer and user. But one thing that is apparent is that you seem to want to be sure that all relationships between older women / younger men (or vice versa) will never work out. In this life, never say never.

Look a little more closely at the post. I never said anything about marriage ... at least for me personally. If a marriage is what a woman (or man) is looking for from a 20 something, then it's possible they could experience disappointment. But not always and I can give you some examples if you'd like to hear them.

As for me, I look for friendship and I've managed to find it with some of those friendships lasting well over five - seven years now ... this being with mid 20's men at the inception of the relationship.

I think it all goes to what you're looking for, what you expect. That varies from person to person but again, caution is the operative word. We owe it to ourselves to investigate them before we establish any sort of relation, with a man or woman of any age, not just the younger ones.

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