I'm dating an older woman!

Yes, welcome back to the club, Alley. Cougars rule.

Mrs. Birdscribe is 3 1/2 years older. By the time I was a sophomore in college, she had finished her Masters, having polished off her bachelors the same year I was graduating from high school.

It's weird. When I was in high school, I dated nearly exclusively younger girls. Once I got to college, however, that flipped. In five years of college, I think I went out with one woman who was my age.

Included in that was a 28-year-old (when I was 20) and two 26-year-olds (when I was 21).

Well played, Dools.

 

My senior year of high school, I was 17 and she was 25 with an apartment in an energetic, great eight months.

Also was dating a 16-year old.

Life was good.

 

"and every time I pass a wheat field..." [/garth]

(ducking)

 

I've always been the oldest in my relationships. I've always been 2 or 3 years older than the girls I've dated.

 

I'm printing this thread out for a part-timer at my paper. A coworker and I are trying to convince him that he needs a good cougar (not either of us, for the record).

 

When I was 31, I dated a 20-year-old kid. Haven't dated anybody younger since.

 

You never even gave me a chance!

 

I've never believed that ages mattered in relationships. I believe it matters more how well you connect emotionally, intellectually and sexually -- in other words, to get a little New-Agey, how well your souls match. I can be just as attracted to the hot young (college) thing at the gym as I can a classy woman in her 50s at the other end of the bar.

To crossthread, I live like time is circular, not linear. Our lifetimes are simply too short for most of us to realize it.

 

Stop bogarting whatever you're on.

 

Leather pants too tight, Joe???

 

Cougars?

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