Is is just too hard to date your own age group as we age?

I'm really wondering here.

So the phenomenon of older men dating and marrying (in some cases) nubile young things is not new. It happens, has happened for eons.

OK.

So now we got MILFs, "cougars," and grannies on sexvacations to Kenya.

Now being 45, I'm cool, delighted even, to be considered sexually appealing still in middle age. All things considered, I'd rather be 45 now than in my grandmother's time when the standard mature woman's wardrobe consisted of 1/2 corsets, black dresses below the knee with myriad tiny buttons to the nape, and sensible shoes with black stockings.

But all this mismatched dating has me wondering... is it just too hard, too complex to find someone your own age? :shrug:

Older single people come with baggage, considerations, complications.

I guess I'm asking whatever happened to the idea of relationships among equals? Or is there just too much of the odd stuff in the media and I'm overreacting?

as people grow older, they universally grow more and more hideous.

I wouldn't date me if I was the last person on earth. I have to put a bag over my head just to jerk it. Quite frankly, I have no idea what my wife sees in me. If I were her, I'd go after someone much much younger.

Why are you grotesque?

I don't want to pry, but I rarely consider anybody genuinely grotesque.

I'm pudgy in that malformed boiled pierogi sort of way--neither actually fat nor thin--and no amount of going to the gym helps. My face is a mass of wrinkles that seemingly arrived over night and without either charm nor wisdom. My teeth are losing their luster. The skin on the back of my hands is getting thinner and I can see the ghosts of future spots. My ears are becoming stuffed with hair and my nose hair has turned white... need I continue?

Aged bodies are disgusting bodies. Beauty properly belongs to the young.

And I feel bad that you think of yourself that way. I would bet good money that your wife does NOT agree with you.

:)

the menstrual cycle, on the other hand, is a natural part of being an adult female. There's nothing gross about the cycle itself, only the waste blood and tissue.

you got a clever way with words - "I'm pudgy in that malformed boiled pierogi sort of way"
:rofl:

oh,(searches past posts) ...never mind.

:evilgrin:

Not that the body stuff can't be overcome. Sometimes, despite yourself, you fall for someone not very attractive on the outside. I haven't yet, but I'm just saying it could happen, and it does happen.

OHHH, You're making me so hot with your descriptions!! pudgy malformed pierogi!!! Benjamin Franklin was a corpulent bloated gas bag and every time I read his autobiography or see his face on a $100.00 bill, I still get all goey and buttery. Smart and funny trumps GQ any day in my book. Your wife probably sees inside that "package" and is in awe of your ability to write such hilarious "self-defocating" stuff. (I made that one up, good ain't it??)

Ugly or just downright homely men still get plenty of devotion. Look at Donald Trump, granted I can't imagine his wife being anything but a very very high priced whore for being with him, but he's about the most repulsive face on tv and he gets babes all the time. Morgan Freeman isn't too pretty to look at but I and several women I know think he's one of the sexiest men on celluloid. Harrison Ford isn't that pretty but I'd watch him scrub a toilet or read a phone book and still be all giddy, especially if he was scrubbing my toilet.

On the other hand, do you ever see the tables turned on tv with a generously plump wife and a svelt buff husband? It's a vicious double standard and most of the viewers would not tune in if the woman wasn't the looker. The only reason they watched Roseanne was because she was so outrageous and rude and they were looking for material or to have someone WORSE than their own situation to feel good.

I personally think it's harder to be an average looking woman than for a guy to be average looking, at least in the dating and work world.

I too am 45, a woman, and not really grotesque but surely not a Victoria's Secret model. I suppose many women in their middle ages feel a bit used up and passed over but I'll tell you, men over 50 are supreme. They are usually done with the kids and child support, usually well employed, and if you're lucky, on their way to retirement. They're usually finally wise enough to not be all doubled over with the constant hard on that younger men have that keeps any blood from entering the brain. I have this theory that by the time their peter's are a little less active it allows cognitive powers to be activated in the brain, thereby making them much more sensitive, aware, caring, and grateful, very very grateful. A grateful man is a cherished prize.

I've never regretted dumping the horny verile (like I need that anymore) stupid 36 yr. old boyfriend with two elementary kids and a butt load of child support for the 57 yr. old with time, money, nice car, clean house, and lots and lots of love. And he knows how to cook and do laundry. Forget the piddling leg humping puppies at the "Animal Shelter of Dating" and go for the nice well worn friendly labs with saggy abs.

...your way with words, and your relentless self-deprecation...


You are probably, in all likelihood, attractive.

:hi:

Thanks for starting this thought provoking thread.

Do enlighten me.

I just spent a pretty penny at Merz Apothecary buying a special tincture that will make my face wrinkle, my abdomen loose, my hair to fall out and my balls to hang all low.

:spank:

Wrinkles aren't necessarily ugly. It means you've seen something of life. You've lived a rich life, not sat on the sidelines not trying to muss up your hair. You're bound to be more interesting than someone who tries hard to cover all that up. As for missing hair, bald is beautiful on men.

Which means, if you go for the older balding guy, he'll behave more like a randy stud than someone the same age with all their hair.
My own un-scientific research seems to confirm this. :evilgrin:

:D

Volume is beautiful!

:rofl:

better?

:evilgrin:

:rofl:

...lack of energy/flexibility, warts, cellulite...

shall I continue?

I mean, c'mon. I'm not saying older people should be ashamed of themselves or anything.

But are we really supposed to believe we look as good as when we were 18?

"really supposed to believe we look as good as when we were 18"

I'm asking why is dating and relationships just considered the pervue of the young.

Do we really have to explain why younger people are more physically attractive?

It's that our definitiion of "attractive" needs to be expanded.

I was "cute" at 18...

But I'm SMOKIN' several years later.

I hope this keeps up. :-)

:rofl:

:rofl:

Yeesh! What would I do if the good looks that have always allowed me to skate just disappeared, and I was left having to be a "nice person" in order to be liked? Oh, noes!

:rofl:

I can milk it for a few more years...then I'll have to "transition". :-)

You should outgrow concern with physical attractiveness in roughly the same rate you outgrow your physical attractiveness.

Hopefully I will be willing to trade it all in for wisdom someday. ;-)

And we believe it and re-enforce it. Why is grey hair inherently uglier than black hair? Only because it is associated with age.

Same with fat, some cultures have different attitudes.

Youth is our society's obsession, now to be questioned, due to aging baby boomers. Now the numerous part of the population is getting older. Notice how this is when we find ourselves questioning whether youth is the only time of beauty.

You can bet old is going to be beautiful until all the baby boomers die off. :rofl:

My observation is that for some people, visuals are important for sexual attractiveness. Not everybody is like that, but cgrindley is probably one of those people as am I.

everyone has a chance at beauty, some are born with it and then loose it as they age, some come in without it and gain it via age. trust me I have given this much thought through the years and its always been the case

:toast: to those of us who know how to become better versions of ourselves as we age! :toast: B-)

just be thoughtful and loving, thats all. :toast:

overlook that.

good as when I was 37 years old.

I'm 61, and my husband, at least, tells me I'm still beautiful. I might disagree, but I'm not going to argue. :)

just saying

:D

I have either Celiac or pancreaticobiliary disorder. It's the shits.

They don't ALL grow more hideous, but it's hard to find anyone my age who I'd be attracted to. I just look wistfully at the younger ones, and wish I'd taken more advantage of my youth. :hi:

hideous :wow:

that the young hot dudes in africa or the caribbean find older women particularly appealing....it's about the money. and yes, it does get harder for a woman to find a mate as one ages.

it's about the money for the young guys.

But he has one child, a freshman in college, and next year my daughter starts college, so in my mind we are in the same place in life really. He started late and I started early.

I had no idea how old he was until we were chatting on the couch during a movie sometime in the first month and he started a sentence "So when I got back from Nam". Mind you.... I was born in 1970. Almost 5 years later we are still happy, he still has more energy and stamina then I do and it's the one part of my life that is really going great.

I'm glad things are going well for you. :-)

See my post #49.

I know that feeling. :-)

Who's to say this isn't equal in some asymmetrical way? Relationships are optional and people are free to agree to their own terms; both parties have some form of power. If anything, social customs such as taboos applied to intergenerational relationships encourage inequality.

"Older single people come with baggage, considerations, complications."

While I would love to date younger women I have neither the looks nor the money, at least one of which are absolutely required. But within my own age set, every woman I meet is too crazy to get mixed up with, or I am too crazy for them. I'm too old to change my ways and, frankly, I'm not sure I would want to date any woman who would consider me a catch.

And THAT is a Catch-22.

about how he would never want to belong to a club that had someone like him as a member.

The "pool" of older men for younger women shrinks as everyone gets older. So, to illustrate, fifty year old women have fewer opportunities than thirty-five year old women do to get a man not simply because they are older, but because the aging men start dying off or are married to a wife who will be alive until after the husband's death.

Men do die, in the main, sooner than we do.

Pity really.

I never really cared for dating people younger than me, it was so hard bringing them up to speed when talking about things from my past that happened before they were born. Frankly, it was down right annoying. LOL

However, my wife and I are of the same generation and have very similar memories of our younger years.

I have always, in the past, tried dating within my age range.

:-)

I hope you and your wife have lots of lovely years together.

and the crowd goes, "Awwwwwww..." LOL :)

Cheers!

who are searching for their lost youth by impregnating (or trying to) the sweet young thing they found in a college town bar. I know a lot of couples who met and married in midlife. Although there's a great deal of thrill for an aging male to display arm candy, I imagine just as many men are looking for women who speak their cultural language, who share their memories of what happened and when, and recognize all the music they've grown up and old with.

Plus, consider that one of the fastest growing groups of new HIV infections is among women over 55 in retirement communities. They're not getting it from dirty needles and they're not getting it from the pool boy or sex tours to Nigeria.

Unfortunately, the cretin with the arm candy is celebrated as a great stud, while men who marry women who are more likely to "get" them are sneered at. Both types exist, but the media bias is obvious.

not to label anybody as "cretins."

I don't think it's always the case that just because there's a big age spread, the older one is always necessarily a cradle robber. And there's no harm in fun as long as everybody knows the rules and is legal.

But I do wonder on a group level if it's always a good thing when you talk about forming stable relationships.

"I imagine just as many men are looking for women who speak their cultural language, who share their memories of what happened and when, and recognize all the music they've grown up and old with"

I hope so. You couldn't pay me to revisit my 20s. LOL!.

but trying to repeat the experience would probably kill me now.

I let the label slip because of clear memories of how it felt when I was a sweet young thing in a college bar when some old goat would try to hustle me. It felt like nausea and usually caused me to cut the evening short as I fled, never to return to that particular place lest I run into him again.

Ugh.

When I was in college, I found men my age now very scary. I was comfortable up to about 30ish. But more than that and I just creeped out.

and would like to be within 10 feet of them for more than 3 seconds, they should hold on like grim death.

Grim death? :)

Mr. Mojo is just as attractive to me now as thirty years ago. It does help that we become very farsighted as we age, so that as we snuggle together, we are too blind to see the crow's feet around one another's eyes.

And after a hard day, there's something immensely comforting about snuggling up to a body that's a little squishy. :pals: (Although - thankfully - a certain part isn't squishy yet. :rofl: )

that would mean I'd have to start hitting the bars again cause that was the only way I could get past my shyness back then. you know the old song a few shots of whisky and then be ten foot tall and bullet proof and every ladys man :rofl: uggggh

more like dirty old men...they can't recapture their youth by marrying younger women. Like I said it only makes them look that much older, and desperate.

mature woman's wardrobe consisted of 1/2 corsets, black dresses below the knee with myriad tiny buttons to the nape, and sensible shoes with black stockings."

Ya know what I thought of when you said that?....Audrey Hepburn...Breakfast at Tiffany's and Katharine Hepburn....The African Queen...
They both dressed like that (in a sense)and let me tell you, they were sexy had more grace and class than most women today could even attempt to hold a candle to.

Turn on MTV and all ya have is glorified "pole dancing". WTF.

Now, for some real advice...I was divorced at 40. I "dated" and hated it! I was exactly your age when I said forget it and totally gave up on meeting anyone. I focused on my self, job, children (one in college and one in high school) and my music (Bless Dylan, there are times he saved my soul). Anyway, I met someone quite by accident where I worked and the rest is history. We married and are having the best times of our life!
What I am trying to say is quit trying and when you least expect it....BAM!!!
You sound like you are pretty cool and if you were told you are sexually appealing...it WILL happen. So relax...OK?
Good luck! :pals:

P.S. Oh, and if ya don't let me know down the road when you do meet that special someone, I'll come back to haunt you :)

edit for my p.s.

Quoting you quoting me:

"The standard mature woman's wardrobe consisted of 1/2 corsets, black dresses below the knee with myriad tiny buttons to the nape, and sensible shoes with black stockings."

I was actually thinking about all those b/w photos sitting in this trunk I've got my laptop on... my female relatives.. they all look so severe and stern and ... matronly!!

In life, they ran the gamut from severe and stern to loopy and zany. The stiff poses and furrowed brows don't do them justice.

But you're right, those words also describe some great icons of our time. Thanks for the reminder.

"P.S. Oh, and if ya don't let me know down the road when you do meet that special someone, I'll come back to haunt you "

LOL! Deal!

:pals:

:)

my mother's death, has been living with a younger woman for five years now. They are happy and great for each other.

It took a while for them to find each other, but it works for them both.

He is 90 and she is 85. I guess men will always go for the younger women.

younger men. ones my age were too anal and controlling to be much fun.

but at any age it is hard to find a good man that's not a racist, sexist, or alcoholic.

isn't right-wing, a heavy smoker, an alcoholic, boring (in the sense of having no interests other than work, sports, and possibly fishing), still angry and depressed over his failed previous marriage, closeted gay, or plainly looking for a housekeeper with benefits, looking for a younger woman because he's realized at age 60 that he wants kids after all, some of the above, all of the above.

Yet I know a number of couples who have found each other late in life, so I know it's not ENTIRELY hopeless.

nt

That's why I'm wary of anyone who's too much older.

I know what you mean ...

My first husband was my age, he cheated on me and left me with four children to raise-no child support. (married 10 years)
After a few years I thought I found a decent guy 12 years my senior we married and everything went well for a couple of years than the verbal abuse started..he left when my son became very ill and he thought he might have to help with the medical bills. (married 11 years)
I waited a long long time before marrying again to someone I not only consider my equal but my partner. Peter is 14 years my junior. So age is not a relevant factor in choosing a mate. we have been together nine years but were married last may.
watch our wedding video to see two people in love
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sySC1vTNbak
patty lame's loving wife

I am so glad you have finally found love and happiness after all you have been through. Now that's a thing of beauty.

:hug:

Thanks for sharing!

I hope you two share many years together.

Disclaimer: I had my head up my ass for a *very* long time and didn't want to have anything to do with the opposite sex. Shit happens.

I feel like I've finally gotten the excess baggage tossed out and as I look around, the single men in my age and peer group are a pretty confused bunch. If they aren't alcoholics, they're either with someone they've been dating for 3 years or more and just can't decide whether to pee or get off the pot, or they would much rather be pursued than do the pursuing. As such men also happen to remind me more of my mother than my father, it's kind of hard to work up any interest.

I'm 14 years older than my boyfriend - in our professional and personal lives and in the area of our many common interests we are certainly equals.

I'm a good handful of years younger than he is, and I first met him when he was 29. My breath caught in my throat the first time I saw him, and it still does to this day. Every bit of character he has earned over the years has made him more breathtaking.

I can tell by way he looks at me that he feels the same. I have no doubt. We have tunnel vision for each other. Have since day one.

Age is just a number, and "baggage", "wrinkles", "gray hair", etc. have nothing on true love.

It never dies. The rose colored glasses never come off when it's real.

:-)

But I'd never speak such cheese if it weren't the truth.

(Never thought it would happen to me, but it did.) :-)

... when you love someone, they are beautiful.

Age has nothing on that kind of love. :-)

keep it hard


I date someone a year and a half younger than me..both highly middle aged, going on 15

That's adorable.

And sounds familiar. :-)

:rofl:

Too cute. Have fun. B-)

We notice the "mismatched" ones because they are outliers.

It's amazing to me that when women date or marry a man much younger, they get some cutesy nickname ("Cougar".) When a man does it, it's considered the thing to do.

IMHO, YMMV,
Julie

Men and women often like to date much younger men and women in order to regain some sense of lost youth.

That being said, it seems women are more often bitter about this than men. So one question becomes, what makes older men so attractive? I was pretty much ignored by women when I was young, but now that I'm older I have more confidence, experience, and (for lack of a better word) power, and feel as though finding the perfect lady would be much easier now than before.

Young women ignore perfectly good and eligible young men, often going after the alpha males or the 'bad boys' when they are young, especially ignoring the pimply faced and socially retarded nerds, for example, so older men do not feel compelled to do women many favors when they get older, unfortunately.

Sorry for the 'tude, but that's just one way of looking at it.

I've dated (and am currently dating) women who share an almost twenty year age difference with me. It's not because I like arm-candy or cougars-- it's because who ever she is at the time fell into a particular category of women that a) like me, and b) said yes when I ask them out.

If I had my rathers, I'd be dating someone within five years of me-- if for no other reason than to understand some pretty obscure references to the eighties that only teens from the early eighties can understand.

But since I'm not the most pro-active guy in the world when it comes to going out and finding a woman to date, that leaves me with those who actively initiate things with me; and for whatever reason, for the past ten years or so, that's been limited to women who are about fifteen years my junior (I'm 41).

That being said, if there are any progressive, somewhat dorky women in their late-thirties to mid-forties on DU, don't be shy-- because I am :evilgrin:

He's 56! His kids are in their 30's, and his oldest grandson is 16. She's a "sheltered Pentecostal". Now tell me, do you think they're equals? Hardly...disturbing to me, but they're getting married this week. :crazy:

One of two things will happen:

* She'll be content to be second fiddle in the decsion making.

* She'll grow up and want a family and he won't (or he might.)

I'm 54 and I've noticed a lot of attractive, beautiful women in their mid-40s to mid-50s. If I were single, I'd be wanting a woman companion who has seen life, whose wisdom and knowledge would carry us through a "date." I'd be looking for an evening of reflection and insight, and an appreciation for music, literature, poetry, and an overall awareness of the human condition.

"Nubile and young?" Not for me...

:D

"Been there, tried to do that"

I'm facing the last couple of decades of life. With youth behind me, I can see what the truly important things in life are:

A woman whose idea of a gown is a sweatshirt and slippers;
A woman whose idea of a "good movie" is Casablanca or the Thin Man series;
A woman whose perfume is the aroma of coffee;
A woman who speaks mezzoforte and believes silence is an important part of conversation;
A woman whose idea of a pop concert is Alicia Delarocha's recordings of the works of Enrico Granados;
A woman whose idea of a gourmet meal is an anchovy pizza--organic, of course;
A woman who shuns makeup, opting to have her natural beauty shine through;
A woman whose idea of "ambiance" is a few shades of gray and brown;
A woman whose idea of a "two-some" is playing recorder duets;

I'm not into "young and nubile." I don't think I ever was!

I'm tired...and it's time is shows...

edited for typo

:evilgrin:

:rofl: :rofl:

Just for you:

While I prefer sleeping with women my age, I am not the least bit interested in a relationship at this time, and when I hit it off with a gal my age that is exactly what they always want.

So for sex I end up with older or younger women who, seeing the age difference as an impediment to anything serious, do not try to read more into the time together.

Therefore, I like 'em about 10-20 years older than I am. :P

:shrug:

Seriously, I would date in my own age group, but there are some "milfs" I wouldn't turn down. :p

And younger women... well, I'm in my early twenties and I don't see myself as dating a girl in her teens. It just doesn't match. A ONS, sure (if she's hot... er, I mean: nice), a fling maybe, but nothing serious. (Or she would have to be very mature for her age, but it's rare.)

But if somebody wants to get involved in a relationship with somebody much older or younger, let them do it. As long as they're both consenting adults, I see nothing wrong with it.

my divorce from an older man! :P He wasn't that much older though (3 yrs.)

I don't usually date men older than me because they all seem to be stuck in Neanderthal City.

It's a very small town, though--not too many people there, stuck or otherwise.
Mostly museum employees!

It's a matter of clicking with other people. After a certain age that is, leaving out the minors.

I don't believe the Kenya story, though. Or that there are all that many men who end up with a much younger woman - those that do tend to be famous and get disproportionate coverage in the media.

I would not mind a woman my age at all, but they tend to come with a load of problems. I have no interest now, nor never had any in marriage. I like dating, and dating often. Most women my age are looking for a committed relationship. They also most often have kids, and i raised mine, don't want anymore. If they don't have kids they are often looking to have one and settle down. I'm not about to have another.

Younger women on the other hand are more often fine with dating, and no intent on marriage. Overall just less bullshit period really.

Gotta problem with that?

we need a lot of work on this relationship business as age advances. There are so many seniors who live alone, develop bad habits as a result, and who do get lonely and need someone to talk to.

Age is not hideous. It is not beauty, but then old flowers are sometimes quite wrinkled and the bright colors are gone. In humans however, the minds are still alert(hopefully :^) )and a couple generally have a lot to talk about.

The most interesting thing about aging is that the younger folk hate it and the older folk tend to ignore it. All seniors have problems of one kind or another...one reason why they tend to avoid relationships.

This thread is really great for food for thought.

that does not age.. We are forever young, footloose and sexy.. It's why nostalgia sells.. Until we catch a glimpse of ourselves in a store window, or in a mirror, our brain still thinks we are that gorgeous creature we were when we came of age..

My dear old aunt once said to me..(she was very ill and about 75 at the time)

"I just don't know how I ended up so old and sick..I still think of myself as 24, and headed out in a convertible on the way to Chicago in the middle of the night"..

We remain attracted to the same type of people we were attracted to ..even if we end up married to an "old guy" who used to be young ..like we used to be young :)

This is why I could not be with a younger woman---she wouldn't have enough to make her even begin to relate to me. Of course, if a lighter, more superficial relationship is wanted, then that wouldn't get in the way.

basically agreeing that "young is good." :P

There is no contradiction. I don't date now because I don't find enough women my age attractive to even want to bother, yet the young ones are too immature for me.

but never say never...

No responses on any of my personal ads in months. It is a fairly recent picture too.

The only responses I get are from inappropriate people (married or otherwise entangled, people only looking "for a good time" etc.).

Sometimes the loneliness kills me. I just have to accept the fact that I will be alone the rest of my life. I can't remember the last time someone even touched me (other than family members).

I'm the one who dates less than everyone else.

But you might be my match. :toast:

I agree with you about touching though. :-( :hug:

the culture of the area you live in is a problem, I've found. I don't know if that's your situation, but, let's say, one loved opera and enjoyed indoor rather than outdoor activities. A more metropolitan area may well be a place where that person would find more compatible people.

I hope things improve for you. My most active dating period happened to be in my late forties, so don't give up hope!

It showed the number of "surplus" men or women in a given area in the form of circles. Orange circles meant there were more single women than men and blue circles meant the opposite. The larger the circle, the greater the disparity. And, sure enough, I live in an area with a lot more single women than men. I have no idea why that is. Houston and Austin are places with more single men than women. Now, this was not broken down by age or anything but I would guess that Austin skews much younger (college town) and Houston older (oil businesses, big business etc). I can't explain why Corpus Christi would have more single women, though. Unless men tend to leave to go to college and never come back??

Anyway I think that might explain at least part of my problem. But it is like you said; I have different interests. I am also a liberal and many, many guys I have met have been too conservative for me. Now, I joke about never dating Republicans if I can help it so probably that limits things too. Hey, I have standards. They may be LOW but at least I have them.

In any case I want to move from here one of these days. Not just that dating would be better elsewhere, there are more things to do in larger cities. Not that I want to live in Houston necessarily but Houston-adjacent wouldn't be that bad. I like Austin a lot but would miss the coast.

I have given up hope; I have just been concentrating on work and finishing my Master's, which has pretty much taken up my free time anyway.

Wonder if they've got it online?

w00t!

I met my wife 33 years ago. As our lives were already hectic then, even at age 22,
we never even got around to getting married until someone else invited us to our
own wedding (that's another story altogether), eight years after having met.

Today, after rounds of heart problems (me) and cancer (her), we still keep up our
hectic schedule, have two great daughters, and wouldn't have it any other way.

But if I were to lose her, I would be lost like a babe in the woods. As in USELESS.
No woman in her right mind would want to date me, because I'd fight a losing battle not
to make comparisons with my wife, and no one outside of a clone would be as right
for me as she is. I hit the jackpot the first time around. It rarely happens twice
in a row.
1981:

2007:

Same age, too (55). Whoda thunk it?

My husband is 16 years older than me. We get some odd looks every now and then as he looks older than he is and I look younger than I am. But as time has gone on he has kind of stopped aging and I am catching up.

We DIDN'T get it right the first time but are so glad we found finally each other. I wouldn't trade him for all the tea in China! (It's probably contaminated with melamine anyway!)

But that's fine with me :-)

Tea drinker, here, so I hear you on that one!

:D

Both versions of you and the Mrs. :-)

And luckily for me, she is nearsighted, and I still hide her glasses a lot
during daylight hours..........

(J/K!!!!!)

Ihr seid sooo hübsch!!!

Eher meine Frau als ich, aber das passt mir vollkommen!

but you already knew that!

Here's to many more years of happiness for you both.

Julie

Yes, I did indeed know that. I've known that ever since July 25, 1974, when I first laid eyes on her.
What she saw in me, I'm still trying to figure out, but you won't hear me complaining. We've both had
some serious health issues, as I stated, but we're still here to tell the tale, so no real justification
for whining. There are a lot of singles out there looking for what we both found by accident back in 1974.
For all those who are looking to not be single any more, I can only wish them half the luck I (we) had.
For those singles who prefer to remain that way, hey if it works for you, then that's cool, too.

You never know how long you have left, but we've had 33 years together, and if it ends tomorrow, no one can
take away from us what we had up to now. It's selfish of me, but one of us has to go first, I hope it's me,
because I really don't know what I'd do without her, corny as that may sound.

>You never know how long you have left, but we've had 33 years together, and if it ends tomorrow, no one can
take away from us what we had up to now. It's selfish of me, but one of us has to go first, I hope it's me,
because I really don't know what I'd do without her, corny as that may sound.<

Any man that can write the above is the kind of guy any woman would follow to the ends of the earth. She is your soulmate, and you are hers.

Here's to 33 more! :toast:
Julie

33 more--well, given my genetic history, not likely, but here's hoping!!

I prefer dating women about four years younger than me, but it's not an age where there is an abundance of women to select from either. Well, I still wear the same jean size I did when I was 20 and I'm told that I'm good looking, but I try to only consider myself average. So with that said, it's hard to find someone who is a match and attractive.

:shrug:

Mom I'd Like to F**k

It's an acronym from porn that has crept into the common vernacular

:blush: :rofl: