Interesting discussion.
I've noticed relationships emerge in contexts where a shared intellectual endeavor was the basis -- the common ground -- that made an age gap somehow more digestable. It's a curious phenomenon.
Many men like younger women b/c they can appear more innocent; less world weary; more open to new experiences. (Hold those flames: I don't mean to overgeneralize -- to the contrary, these assumptions often turn out poorly for the person who depends on such goofy assumptions; c.f. Nabokov and the Lolita effect.)
When I was younger and surfed all day for a living, I sometimes spent time in the company of older women. I've been in good commited relationships with women my own age. And now that I teach, I have occasion to be in the company of younger women.
I suspect that being true to one's own heart is not a bad way to live.
Cheers.
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