Posted: Mar 25, 2008, 1:21 PM CST
Hey Relaxin.
To incriminate myself but to try and give you some insight to why.
We open ourselves to a backlash like this with how we fill out out profiles. But if we filled out our Profiles differently we could deny ourselves the opportunity.
I ask around my work place as I try to suss out how other men are coping without coming right out and asking blunt questions. On the whole men are married to Woman younger than them (In my Work Place) but mostly it is no more than 5 yrs.
Which to most people is neither here nor there. I know of two exceptions. One seems to have a twenty year difference. He is from England. She seems to have married for money. They are in bitter disharmony at the moment, But she has him by the balls. Stuff about money.
The other is a significant age gap but how big I don't honestly know. But he has just gone through cancer therapy and they still seem harmonious. So age is not the deciding factor.
Now then the incriminating part. It is all about mental conditioning. Every skin magazine you see, Every porn flick, Every Movie, Every TV Show. The Female that is the most sexual (Both having and looking) seems to come from a certain age bracket and they aren't over 50.
Ask the Male to be Blatantly honest about what he miss's about marriage and he will say sex. Ask most men about what went wrong in their marriage and they will reply. "She stopped loving me,She stopped having sex. Or sex was a Battle it wasn't given readily". The general response will be something along these lines.
So there minds are conditioned to the fact that the young are gorgeous, Beautiful, and sex fanatics. This (as said) is done by the media across the board in both written and visual form. It also depicts that the older the Heroine the harder the hero has to try to get her into the bedroom. I.E the more Romantic he has to be.
So here is the single Male 40+ generally (Although it probably doesn't even need to be age bracketed) He wants Sex. He wants Love; and He wants understanding. He wants a few affairs and then wants a long standing relationship.
Now the Intelligent ones (and the world weary) realise they are unlikely to find all three in the one package. So what do they really want. And here is the Question I can't answer. But they leave there flexibility open. They know they won't go older than a set age except in infrequent situations. But they aren't going to shut themselves out of the fantasy. If it happens great, If it doesn't they can say to themselves that they gave themselves the chance.
But you get a Male to admit that openly to you; one on one, face to face. Not one of us would even come close to it unless we had known you for over six months and very aware of where we stood.
I hope this helps Relaxin without putting a theoretical bullet to my own chances in the world of second chances.