Women, when you were younger, did you like older men, and does it horrify you now...

Yes when I was younger I had dated a few men older . I must admit that yes it bother’s me but only when I am in Asia and I see so many really old men with his arms around two Asian women, strolling through stores like Shoemart buying them cheap ass crap j. That infuriates me to no end.

Yep and yep.
It depends on the age, though. I have issues with men in their late 20s or older, dating women that are just graduating high school. After that, I don’t care.

Nope. I didn’t like older men when I was younger and I don’t like younger men now that I am older. I prefer the same age or slightly older.
No sugar daddys and no cougar cubs for me.
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I’m 22 and my last two boyfriends have been 26 and 27. That is my general range, which of course is not weird at all. But not I have never dated an older older man. I do have a bit of a crush on a bartender in the area that I’m good friends with. He is 42 and has white hair, thus my first white haired crush. Some men pull it off, some don’t. It feels weird, because he could be my dad. I don’t know how women my age date men any older than 35 really. I guess I think that because usually you’re in suuuch a different place in your life and you want different things. Doesn’t mean it can’t work out, but when I see a couple like the one I just described, my mind immediately wonders….“sugar daddy?????”

When I was in my late teens I pretty much liked guys my age. Some were a year or two younger, some a year or two older, but that’s about it. Guys in their 30s and 40s seemed old to me. Parent types. I wanted to have fun.

Now that I’m 41 and I hear about older teens and women in their early 20s going for guys my age, well, I just don’t understand it because it’s something I never desired at that age.

I can’t blame women, especially younger ones, for hooking up with older guys. We have this tendency to be a bit… immature in our younger years.

I’m with @Coloma I did not care for older men when I was younger for several reasons. I wanted an equal and two I simply wasn’t attracted to older men and I we wouldn’t want the same things out of life if we are in different times of our lives. I always felt that people looking for someone either too young or much older have two different agendas. The older person is usually looking to relive their youth and have some craziness and the younger person is usually looking for stability. They are both looking for someone else to fix their lives instead of looking to themselves to fix it. So they will never really be each others equals.
Plus for me there was always that creep factor. I also don’t care to be the creep. You shouldn’t have more in common with your in laws than your partner.

At 22 I dated someone 35, but never thought of him in a romantic way. He was a friend. I did, however, marry some one older than I am . . . . by exactly 43 days.

When I was a teen the cool thing was having older boyfriends, well I think I took that too far. when I was 14 I had a 24 year old boyfriend. I thought I was the sh*t and so did all of my friends. Now at almost 25 I look back at that and think “OMG what a pedophile!!” It grosses me out thinking about it.

On another note, my boyfriend now is 22, I have never dated a younger guy before him. My rule always was you had to be at least 2 years older than me. This is the best relationship I have ever had and all my friends tell me they wish theirs was as perfect as mine. So I guess I should have given the young ones a chance a long time ago…

In my mid-teens, I ‘dated’ (read: messed around with) several men in their mid to late 20s. I was a very willing participant, and sometimes I even initiated it. But…looking back, I think they were weak and icky. Grown men should know better.

When I was in my mid to late 20s I seemed to have a thing for guys in their early 40s. That attraction didn’t go away until my mid 50s. Hmmmmm. Now I like guys my own age because they get my jokes.

As a young woman I was always looking for a father figure in a guy. Wanted love and wisdom. We spend as long as it takes searching for what we think we need. The hurting ones always look outside of themselves for the answer to what they think the problem or lack is.

@King_Pariah I agree with you. I am mostly just struck by the irony of it. In discussions with female friends of my age, they accuse men who date younger women of negative personality traits. I try and explain to them that younger women actually ask older men out, and they refuse to believe it, while grudgingly admitting that they may have done so once or twice.

I think it’s pretty typical actually (with smaller age gaps, not like the 40 year old and the 20 year old).

From ages 21–26 (now) I
-Dated two 18 year olds (I was 21, 22)
-Dated one 18/19 year old (I was 23–25)
-Dated one 19/20 year old (I was 22/23)
-Had romantic flings with an 18/19 year old (I was 22 and 23 when they happened)
-Had a romantic fling with three 19 year olds (I was 21, 21/22, and 22)

-In fairness, I did have flings with two girls who were my own age at the time… and my current g/f is only about 6 months younger than me.

My boyfriend is nearly 20 years older than me and we’ve been together for a a good few years now. I have always been attracted to older men and, before anyone mentions it, I don’t have daddy issues!

I can’t imagine I’ll regret it because, as we get older, the age gap seems less and less extreme and we love each other. I think if he had just wanted a fling with a young woman then the relationship would have fizzled out years ago.

I never dated anyone that was more than 4 years older. I usually dated guys my age or younger, even when I was in my 20’s.

No and I was easily spooked by any guy more than a year or two older than me. It took me into my mid 30’s to find myself attracted to a man older than me.

Older man-younger woman couples don’t repulse me at all. In my observations, many men treat younger women a lot better than they treat women their own age. I can’t why but will guess there’s a degree of competition and emotional pressure not going?

I was never into older men at all. In fact I dated a man 5 years younger and he was one of the big loves of my life. Then, guess what? I married an older man. It has less to do with age than character. I love the total person and age becomes just one factor like any other. Of course, it matters. But it only matters as much as you let it.