As a mature dater, if you date a woman your own age, you will have more scope to plan your dream retirement together - as it's a phase of life.
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Writer Simcha points out some of the more practical details: A man who is twice your age is likely not only to be established in his career and financially stable but also to have a set of values that includes more than his professional ambitions. He can be a good person to lean on and go to for advice. Now that men tend to extend their adolescence through their 30s, avoiding having children or marrying until later, Mar points out, an older man can be a relief. He has it together, so you can focus on keeping yourself together instead of being the only true adult in the relationship.
Now that people are living longer and are healthier and fitter than ever, generation gaps are far less notable.
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One of the hardest parts about dating a much older man is the judgment you might face from people outside of the relationship. Emma Wells has been writing professionally since There are examples of famous women dating much younger men - year old Priyanka Chopra just married Nick Jonas, saying their year age difference is "no big deal". She was 25 years older They've been married for 11 years. Another 50 to 60 per cent of marriages in Australia involve a man being at least two years older than the woman, he said.
The remainder - ten to 20 per cent - are women who are two or more years older than men.
In fact, a recent article published in The Conversation crunched the numbers on this. It found that fewer than one in ten hetero marriages the data on same-sex marriages is extremely limited at this stage involve a couple with an age gap of ten years or more. But of those, only one per cent were older women with younger men. Similarity entails many things, including personality, interests and values, life goals and stage of life, and physical traits age being a marker of physical appearance.
For example, in some African countries about 30 per cent of unions reflect a large age gap," Dr Karantzas wrote.
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Of course, none of this is a judgement call on people's relationships - you often just fall for who you fall for, and one relationship is no better or worse than another. Hack talks about the stuff that matters to young Australians. Menu showing mobile menu.
How important is age and dating? A Dutch guy lost his bid to legally lower his age. Tuesday 4 December 4: Ellen DeGeneres is 15 years older than her wife Portia de Rossi.
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