Read this.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/12/31/tf.dating.older.man.awesome/index.html

Not a gold digger.......hmm, his ability to pay the bar/restaurant bill, is financially stable has nothing whatsoever to do with it!

Gosh, I've yet to meet very many my own age who are mature and not nasty. If she found one, great. One less my age for me, though!! LOL And I keep running into the ones my age who need a little blue pill to boot. Am starting to seriously consider the cougar role over here.
Sorry, but there ARE social and psychological insinuations with the spread of years in most cases. Not all, but it's an ego stroke when a younger person is interested in an older man or woman, period.
My friend Barb has a fellow 12 years younger and it was hard for her to get over the situation, but he's more mature than men our age, has no agenda other than to find the love of his life. Good for her. Where's mine?? LOL

She's a writer for CNN. I don't think she needs his money.

Makes all the difference, her money stays snugly in her pocket. I live in the land of the monied younger women and social butterfly debutante, if they could save the price of a burger and allow someone else to pick up the bill they would.Ask Tamara Beckwith Smith.

So, he can show her a better time than someone her own age. I don't see a problem with that. A gold digger wants diamonds, cars and vacations. There's a big difference between that and buying her a burger.

There are different levels and scales of gold digging.............There is only one reason I would not date a man older than myself, I'm not prepared to share my stockpiled depends before I have use for them.

Gosh, an older man for me would mean in his 70's. I already served time taking care of my mother until her demise. Not open for that kind of service again right now.

why young guyz like to date older women?

Well golly, I guess him being wealthy is a really bad reason younger women should date older men. I don't know why that it didn't occur to me before.

I read it. I do prefer men a bit older than me, but not too much. I do agree that someone a bit older than me would be more secure in himself than someone younger than me, though I don't need someone to pay for everything.

The story was about YOUNGER women and why THEY should date older men. If an older man for you would be 70 you aren't a younger woman.

And about the little blue pills someone mentioned, when I'm with a firm, skinny 20 something, I don't need them. Her looks are plenty to get me going.

She would be a younger woman if she is 49 and he is 59 and older. And might I add,SKPCG, you look pretty damned hot for your age!!

a question I wonder about myself..

That would be a story about middle aged women dating seniors. This story was about why YOUNG women should date older men.

I am definitely considered a hottie to the over-60 crowd. Heck, I'm considered a hottie to the 20-somethings, toooooooooooo!!! LOL

You gotta go with what works. I was just talking to someone saying women close to my age give me the cold shoulder when I talk to them. But, younger ones open right up. I can't date a woman that doesn't want to date me. So, I tend to date the young ones.

What gets me is those same women that gave me the cold shoulder will talk trash about me for dating the young ones! Calling me a "child molester" or "cradle robber." They'll say she's only with me for my money (I don't have any money).

Are you saying we are old??

You do have to go with what works..I agree. I don't agree that women your age all snub you, I am in that age group and I would prefer men close to my age..generally men who are attracted to are much younger or much older. You just prefer younger, many men your age do, there's nothing wrong with that.

There are no set rules..thank gawd ...

Not trying to be mean here, but women who have lived have learned to be more discerning about with whom they share company. I recall being naive when younger and being more...."open minded". Experience has made me more judicious, and although I am still very open-minded, I know who is more healthy in general and for me.

And we know you don't have money or you'd be on "Millionaire Matchmakers", not here!

As for being a cradle robber, etc., it is said the same of women who date younger men. I don't date younger men. I know it would go nowhere except the bedroom and I deserve better than that. And I do think it's creepy to date someone my daughter's and son-in-law's ages, no matter how "mature" they think they are. When you ask how they feel about changing your Depends in 20 years, they usually cool off. And a lot of those young men are after women my age like they have a "to do" list. I'm not up for being used by a man at any age and I won't use them simply because they are horny and naive.