am I out of my mind?

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-31-2004
am I out of my mind?
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Thu, 03-03-2005 - 10:06pm
Being a 35 years old woman with an 8 years old son – would you even consider dating a 30 years old man or am I crazy for even thinking this?
For some strange reason the majority of people contacting me are either a) younger or b) much older. Any opinions?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 05-22-2003
Sun, 03-06-2005 - 12:04pm

No, you are not crazy to consider dating a 30 year old. The last man that I dated for 7 months (we just broke up 2 weeks ago) was 29 when we started dating (I was 35 when we started dating...by the time we broke up he was 30 and I was 36; and I have two children, ages 6 and 2 1/2). That is not that much of an age gap...all depends on how much you have in common, etc. Right now I am e-mailing/chatting with 4 men (ages 45, 43, 29 and 35). Most men who contact me are between the ages of 28 and 50...my rule is that I don't date someone younger than 28 or older than 46...but if a great guy came along who was 49 or 27 its not an iron clad rule...just that I generally prefer to date men no more than 10 years old than me or 8 years younger. Its hard enough to find someone who you click with and have a lot in common with who also doesn't mind dating a single mom (most men do not seem to like to date a girl with children...last year when I was doing the on-line thing the fact that I had two children seemed to scare off about 70% of my contacts once they found out so now I have it clearly written in my profile that I have kids and how many so that they know before they decide to write me that I have kids.

Hope that helps,

mom of 2

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