Older Woman / Younger Man - Does age matter in a relationship?
Younger people who are more mature than most of their contemporaries may actually find an older mate to be more congenial. Yet as in any age gap relationships, the preference for a much older mate should be scrutinized with great care.
The danger is that the older person is psychologically a substitute parent, rather than a mate.
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If these celebrities can do it, so can you!
Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher (15-year gap)
Madonna and Jesus Luz (28-year gap)
Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee (20-year gap)
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones (25-year gap)
Sam Taylor-Wood and Aaron Johnson (23-year gap)
Elton John and David Furnish (15-year gap)
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi (15-year gap)
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A lot depends on the mental maturity of both people.
For an older woman/younger man (OW/YM), the odds are stacked against them from the start.
Unlike an older man/younger woman (OM/YW) pairing, like Hugh Hefner and his playmates, society frowns upon the OW/YM union. A traditional society readily accepts and to some extent celebrates OM/YW pairing. Some common arguments are that the OM has the status and capability. This is utterly untrue as it buys into the argument that the YW is "backbone-less" and willing to settle for tradeoffs in the relationship. The society cast an immediate perception that the YW is after the older one for money, and is willing to trade her body for material pleasures. How true is this? We won't know. Except the two involved.
Perhaps a study on the longetivity of such relationships will help.
The OW is branded names like cougar and milf. Degratory terms which do not serve the purpose of feminism. Many a times, the people who perpetuates these ideas are women themselves. It takes two hands to clap. And such a perception can never be sustained by what many choose to believe as Male Chauvinists driven ideas, it is however in fact, truly perpetuated by the silent acknowledgement of females or basically the refusal to rise against such opinions. True enough, it may be the "traditional males" who frown upon a OW/YM union but it does not help that the spouses do not support their often less lucky counterparts.
Stacked against them, we have a society who turns inwardly against females. In a modern society, encouraging feminism and the empowerment of women and to a large extent equality of sexes, we are unfortunately still archaic in our perception of relationships.
Already, females are turning waves in various arenas.
For example, the heads of state.
Philippines First Female President Maria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino
The current Chancellor of Germany Angela Dorothea Merkel
27th Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard, since Jun 2010
Eminent First Ladies
The first lady of the 44th President of the United States Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama
The multi-talented and immensely beautiful First Lady of the President of the French Republic Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
Top Corporate Performers
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde
Top Humanitarian Figures we subscribe to
Mother Teresa
Florence Nightingale
Top Actresses
Helen Lydia Mironoff (a.k.a Helen Mirren)
As we strive to promote the flourishing of a society where females co-drive the nation, perhaps we can take a moment and reflect on the concept of feminist equality in terms of age-gap differences for relationships.
