I want my T to be older, like a mother-figure. That being said, most my "surrogate" mothers are quite young--one is 29, two are mid-thirties, and only one is my actual mother's age. My T has never told me her age, I'd guess she was mid-fifties. She told me when I first started seeing her that as a college student she'd protested the War in Vietnam, which is probably the only thing I felt we had in common.

I wouldn't be very comfortable with someone too close to my age (being as I'm only 18 lol!), because of experience (or lack thereof), but also because I wouldn't be able to see them as the nurturing mother figure I seem to so desperately need.