12 Dec 2023
Men marrying or having children with younger women is a big 2023 trend
Mary Madigan, writing below, could be condemned as "ageist" but she is one of many women who are censorious about older men who team up with young women. I am something of a sinner in that regard. I have a female friend (NOT a partner) whom I see a lot of who is 35. I am 80. So I see another side of the picture.
You CAN be geninely non-ageist. As an example, I once married a lovely lady who was 11 years OLDER than I was. I was 32, she was 43. A photo of her from our honeymoon below.
There are undoubtedly a variety of influences on attitudes that are not tied to age but a big one is IQ. I am a certified high IQ person and ALL my ladies have also been pretty bright. A high IQ does cause you to see the world a lot differently and it can be very pleasing to find someone else who shares such perspectives. It can be quite a relief
I am certainly not claiming that all age imbalanced relationships are between high IQ people but it an example of something important and unifying that is not age-related.
Micro miniskirts, baggy jeans, and old men marrying or having children with women far younger than them are the most significant trends 2023.
The tiny skirts that are impossible to walk upstairs in without flashing someone and the baggy jeans that sit awkwardly on anyone with hips are things we can all learn to accept.
The famous men in droves hooking up with women half their age need to be stopped and rejected like a pair of skinny jeans being ignored in your wardrobe.
A huge number of men have partnered up with women young enough to be their daughters this year … or at the very least they look like their daughters.
Actor Al Pacino, 82, welcomed a fourth child with his 29-year-old girlfriend Noor Alfallah and acclaimed actor Robert DeNiro, 80, had a daughter with Tiffany Chen, 45.
Actor Rufus Swell, 54, got engaged to Vivian Benitez, 26 and here’s a fun fact: Swell’s 21-year-old son is closer in age to Benitez than he is.
If that wasn’t enough to confirm, there’s a real ancient man trend suddenly taking over the world with the same rapid succession that Paris Hilton did in the early 2000s.
Early 2000s comedian Dane Cook, 51, married his fiancee, Kelsi Taylor, 24, and Leonardo DiCaprio, 48, has kept his streak of never dating a woman over the age of 26 and has been spotted with Vittoria Ceretti, 25.
Something is unnerving about seeing a man date a woman that is young enough to be his daughter.
Usually, that kind of relationship seems to provoke a mass eye roll, but seeing it become so trendy in 2023 is just depressing.
I’m no relationship expert and have the blocked numbers to prove it, but I think the best romantic partnerships are formed on equal footing.
When you’re both in similar life positions, when you create a life together as a team and when you enter the relationship in equally powerful positions.
You want to meet someone you can build a life with …. Not end up with some man at the end of his life, where you have to fit into whatever world they’ve already created for themselves.
Sure, there’s a case to be made that age is just a number, but is it? I think the older you get, the more you realise age does matter.
Age gives you experience, your Medicare card, time to feel confident in yourself and time to know yourself.
You get old enough to realise that a tattoo in a language you can’t read isn’t clever and sophisticated but rather a bit trashy.
Eventually, you work out your Mum was right, and people don’t tell you how much they love you via some cute text messages; they show you by actually turning up to help you move house.
Maybe these men just happen to find their soulmates in women half their age … but have you ever met anyone half your age and thought … wow we really connect? No.
At best you have a laugh at worse you have to google the word “slay” afterwards, so you can understand what they were saying.
The dating younger women trend is born from the concept of men wanting not to find equal partners but women to pamper them, and the last thing we need to be doing in 2023 is pampering more powerful white men.
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