<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"YOU SHOULD DATE A YOUNGER GUY! They tend to be more open-minded, says writer Janet Ozzard. I tried very hard not to meet the man who eventually became my husband. Two days before the potluck dinner that our mutual acquaintance planned with the express purpose of introducing us, I called her and said, &amp;amp;#8220;I&amp;amp;#8217;m not coming.&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;Janet,&amp;amp;#8221; she replied, frustrated, &amp;amp;#8220;I&amp;amp;#8217;m inviting you here to meet a straight, available man who likes to cook and garden, who makes furniture and has two dogs. What&amp;amp;#8217;s your problem?&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;He&amp;amp;#8217;s five years younger than me,&amp;amp;#8221; I said. (At the time, I was 40 to his 35.) &amp;amp;#8220;He won&amp;amp;#8217;t want to be with me when he finds out how old I am.&amp;amp;#8221; Not so long before, a younger boyfriend had broken up with me by saying, &amp;amp;#8220;I think you&amp;amp;#8217;re going to be too old to have my children.&amp;amp;#8221; I decided then I&amp;amp;#8217;d only date older. I&amp;amp;#8217;d find a nice divorced guy, maybe with kids; I&amp;amp;#8217;d be the world&amp;amp;#8217;s best stepmom. You know how this ends. I went to the dinner. We fell in love, got married and now have a baby girl. And sure, five years younger sounds relatively minor, but to many women that gap would be unacceptable. That&amp;amp;#8217;s a shame, because I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s a major benefit. Not just because of the fun you have teasing a younger guy (&amp;amp;#8220;Before you were born, Morrissey was in a band called The Smiths&amp;amp;#8221;), but because younger guys have been presoftened by a society that has evolved a lot in the past 30 years. Women&amp;amp;#8217;s rights, gay rights&amp;amp;#8212;the younger a guy is, the more evolved he is. You want to work? Cool. Want him to do the laundry? No problem. My husband washes bottles and does nighttime feedings without acting like he&amp;amp;#8217;s a hero. That&amp;amp;#8217;s not just a younger guy you&amp;amp;#8217;re dating; it&amp;amp;#8217;s utopian values, in human form. Enjoy it. Why you should date an older man &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; Michael Douglas, 66, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, 41 NO, YOU SHOULD DATE AN OLDER MAN You&amp;amp;#8217;ll feel forever hot, argues writer Joanna Goddard. When I first started dating Alex, I assumed he was my age. He had a baby face, wore jeans with Converse shoes and knew every lyric by The Shins. But during our fifth date, over burgers and beers, he asked sheepishly, &amp;amp;#8220;Do you know how old I am?&amp;amp;#8221; It turns out he was 41, a whopping 13 years older than me. My eyes popped that night, but four years later, I&amp;amp;#8217;ve realized that this potential deal breaker is actually the biggest blessing of our relationship. At a basic level, an older man never gets boring. After four decades of life, Alex is a walking encyclopedia. With past boyfriends my age, I knew all of their stories by month three. But Alex always has anecdotes (and bedtime tales) I haven&amp;amp;#8217;t heard; plus, he has answers to all my questions, from job advice to how to cook an egg. Older guys already know how to change a tire and give a good back rub. And I can&amp;amp;#8217;t think of anything sexier than that James Bond-like knowledge. But it&amp;amp;#8217;s what he doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t say that I count as the real blessing. You know those days when you&amp;amp;#8217;re cranky and wanting to pick a fight? (For me, that was my entire eighth month of pregnancy.) Alex never takes the bait. He made that mistake with past girlfriends, he tells me, when he was younger and hotheaded. Now he&amp;amp;#8217;s mature enough to sit back, keep mum and ride it out. But perhaps the biggest reason I like dating an older man is the way it makes me feel. No matter how wrinkled I get, I&amp;amp;#8217;ll always be 13 years his junior. When he&amp;amp;#8217;s 83, I&amp;amp;#8217;ll be a wizened 70. But in Alex&amp;amp;#8217;s eyes, I&amp;amp;#8217;ll still be his hot young wife."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.glamour.com/sex-love-life/2011/03/older-men-versus-younger-men-who-should-you-date/1>