Age difference

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Registered: 03-20-2006
Age difference
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Mon, 05-22-2006 - 4:14pm

What's the biggest age difference between you and any past or current lover?

Do you prefer older men or younger? Why?

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Registered: 03-20-2006
Mon, 05-22-2006 - 4:25pm

Currently there is a 12 year age difference between Dh and myself. Biggest gap came when I was 28 and he was in his 50's. There was another time when I was 18 and he was 36!

Only twice have I been with a younger man, my 28 to his 21. Personally I think there's a huge difference between younger and older men. It's rare you find a younger man who has the experience an older man does. The knowledge how to pleasure the woman and thus get his own pleasure.

Would I go back to a younger guy? I don't know, ask me when I'm in my 70's! LOL

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Registered: 12-07-2003
Mon, 05-22-2006 - 4:34pm
Most of my relationships have been a small age difference, but one was 11 years, I was 17 and he was 28, and one was just reacently he is 45 I am 24. :) I like older men. I am a painfully mature 24 (had to grow up because my parents didnt take care of me or my 4 younger siblings) So, I get along with older people better, My best girlfriends one is my age, one is 38 and one is 47. Also for me its nice to talk to people who have had expiernces I have, since I had custody of my brother when he was 16 and I was 19, so at 19 (still a teen) I was parenting a teen. :)
Liz
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Registered: 05-19-2006
Mon, 05-22-2006 - 4:36pm
There have been times when there has been up to a 30 year difference. I do prefer old men, which always surprises me that my husband is younger than me, by 9 months, but he acts older than his age. Young immature men I just can't handle lol
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Registered: 09-16-2003
Mon, 05-22-2006 - 4:41pm
my partners have always been older or the same age as me.


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Registered: 03-20-2006
Mon, 05-22-2006 - 5:10pm

Liz you could have been writing my post! I've always been attracted to older men. My parents friends I'd be hanging out with them instead of their kids! Shoot several of them I fantazied about. LOL

And in the past 8 years I've lived more then most people have in their lifetime! So finding people my age who have been through as much as I have is almost impossible. Sso again I end up feeling like I have more in common with someone older then me.

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Registered: 10-14-2003
Mon, 05-22-2006 - 6:12pm

My bf is 14 years older than me. In general, I do NOT like older men, but for him, I make an exception. He's a very talented and sweet man.

My gf is 7 years older than me... but I think I like my ladies older than me like that.

My DH is 16 months younger than me... about the same age. I'm very comfortable with that... almost no age difference at all, and I'm just barely ahead of him. Perfect!


"In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud argued that civilization is founded on the repression of instincts. It now seems clear that one of those instincts leads us away from monogamy. Whether we choose to follow, on the other hand, is up to us."
-Dr. David P. Barash and Dr. Judith Eve Lipton,
"The Myth of Monogamy"