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Finding partner for serious relationship.
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Personally I wouldn't date women with children but this is more due to the attitudes this brings and also for the fact I don't want my own children so I wouldn't particularly want anyone else's either. It's totally fair enough that women already have children and plenty of men wouldn't consider this a problem but it's not for me.
I respect that choice but therein lies the problem for those looking for love in their forties.
Women in their forties tend to have children and history and are looking for the same in a partner.
Men in their forties tend to have children and history and are looking for women in their twenties with neither.
Just my opinion of course.0 -
I respect that choice but therein lies the problem for those looking for love in their forties.
Women in their forties tend to have children and history and are looking for the same in a partner.
Men in their forties tend to have children and history and are looking for women in their twenties with neither.
Just my opinion of course.
I'm a woman who did internet dating in my twenties and I wouldn't have touched men in their forties who had kids with a bargepole.0 -
I respect that choice but therein lies the problem for those looking for love in their forties.
Women in their forties tend to have children and history and are looking for the same in a partner.
Men in their forties tend to have children and history and are looking for women in their twenties with neither.
Just my opinion of course.
I'm not sure where you get the looking for 20 year olds from?
Sadly a 20 something woman is not as appealing as a 40 something who is established solvent and has life experience.
Plus less 40 somethings have a different fashion sense.
Give me Sian Williams any day of the week.
There is a saying a new broom sweeps clean but the old brooms know the corners :cool:0 -
I have to agree. ^^^
I don't know one single 20-something woman who would go for a man in his 40s. That's old enough to be her dad! Nor can I imagine most men in their 40s going for a lass barely out of her teens! What on earth would they have in common?!
The only time I can imagine this is if the man is famous. FAMOUS men tend to go for women half their age, and some women in their 20s will happily go for a man old enough to be their father (or grandfather even!) as long as he is rich.
But in the life of mere mortals...??? Not so much.
I don't think I have ever known in my life, in my 50-odd years, more than two couples with an age gap where one of them could be the other one's parent.
The 2 big age gaps I have known ... One was a couple of 35 and 17 (about 20 years ago.) He was the oldest. They got married and it lasted 10 years. He hit middle age and got boring and stuffy, and she hit mid 20s, and realised she had missed her youth completely, and left him.
And I knew one woman about 10 years back, who was 45, who dated a lad aged 23. They lasted about 5 years, and everyone, constantly thought he was her son. She got really miffed about it, but I don't know what she expected when he was young enough to BE her son!
Apart from those 2, I have never known any couples with more than a 1-5 year age gap, out of all the couples I have ever known personally. And as I said, very few 20-something women will actually want to be with a middle aged man.Proud to have lost over 3 stone (45 pounds,) in the past year! :j Now a size 14!
You're not singing anymore........ You're not singing any-more!
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A few years after I split from my ex, he lived with a girl who was the same age as my daughter. She was 22 and he was late 30s. Our son was uncomfortable with the fact that she was just a few years older than him and the same age as his sister.
I remember ex complaining that all she wanted to do was go out partying. They lasted about 2 years.0 -
You are extremely wrong. By not having a clear pic or not having a 10 page profile saying stupidities like you love tikka masala and bunjee jumping, doesn't make you worse.
It depends what you look for. One personality trait that is an instant turn off for me is laziness, another is a sense of entitlement. Someone who can't be bothered to make an effort to write about them so readers can get an idea of who they are, but yet expect to receive many interest fits that criteria perfectly, so would not get even a second look from me.
Instead of feeling sorry for yourself for your lack of success, have you considered for a second why that might be and what you could do different to change that outcome?0 -
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I have to agree. ^^^
I don't know one single 20-something woman who would go for a man in his 40s.
That doesn't mean that they don't exist, or are even uncommon. Without straining my grey matter, I could name two: my wife and her sister.
Having said that, neither myself or my sister-in-law's husband were specifically looking for 20 something women. Neither of us are rich or famous either.0
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