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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster
This is all understandable given the facts and the specifics, but, it is not even really YOUR going ewww. Your post only references your wife's opinion as well as the assumptions of the people you know. Unless you have a very wide social circle, these assumptions are very skewed. . There is no opinion that is held personally by you and that has been borne out of a your own experience. Sort of a vicarious take on things.
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It is funny you mention that Hamster Bamster.
With Christmas coming up my Wife and I have been receiving a lot of Christmas cards in the mail and I would say we both have a very large social circle. Some have been from people we only talk to once or twice a year but the fact they sent us a card and not an email like some cheapskates do nowadays means something to us because we like to hang them up with our Christmas decorations.
With that being said most of my friends and people I work with are in their mid to late thirties and early forties and are married with kids but they wouldn’t date men that are old enough to be their Fathers if they were single and they believe men that want to date women young enough to be their daughters are suffering from a midlife crisis and this belief seems to be very widespread here in Australia.
When I look at it the other way my Mother is in her early sixties and I personally wouldn’t want to be with someone that age if I were single because when they are old enough to be my Mum then that is too old for me and that is not to say there is anything wrong with women around that age and I have met some women in their sixties at Church who are very friendly but they are just at different stages of their lives than me and we wouldn’t have much in common and it is the exact same reason that I wouldn’t date a woman in her early twenties and I think it is odd a 45 year old man would want to.