I was worried when Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher split. But it got worse: Yesterday we found out Katie Couric has broken up with Brooks Perlin, the boyfriend who is young enough to be her son. These aren't even the only celebrity cougar couples that broke up recently — there's been more.
Is dating a younger man right for you? For the most part, age is just a number. What matters much more is a compatible level of psychological maturity. By psychological maturity, I am referring to the emotional age rather than the biological one. More and more women are getting graduate degrees, building successful careers, and marrying later, or not at all. Also, single motherhood and sperm donors are becoming increasingly frequent. In other words, women are less likely to need a man to take care of them, and the rules of age-appropriate dating have probably changed forever.
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Dating and mating a man who's at least a decade your junior may sound like the ultimate ego boost—and it is, at least in the beginning. Yet as experienced Cougars will tell you, that's only a small part of a complex equation.
The challenges of May-December romance We hear an awful lot about “cougars” but these days I’m just as likely to ogle Gandalf as I am Legolas. So I confess to having a little streak of gerontophilia, though this tendency didn’t kick in until I was old enough to qualify as somebody else’s predatory feline.
In this installment of He Said, She Said YourTango Experts Charles J. Orlando and Lisa Steadman take on a quite contemporary question about cougars. While they don't love the sobriquet, they do wonder if men should date older women and if women are better off with younger men. Are older women who date young men robbing cradles, deluding themselves or does everyone come out a winner? Find out!
I will be fifty years old in just a few months and guess what? I could care less. Age is not a problem for me because I take good of myself, I feel good, I still feel sexy and I totally accepting of me. Am I a perfect? No. Do I look like a did when I was twenty-five? Hell no! Do I have some flab, saggy, jiggly spots and extra junk in my trunk? Yup!
Why shouldn't Madonna, or any powerful woman, be able to sleep with handsome, young studs?
Kick Ass star Aaron Johnson and his fiancée, director Sam Taylor-Wood, who met when she directed him as a young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy, welcomed their first child, a daughter named Wylda Rae, yesterday in London. The reason it's news is because Sam is 43 and Aaron just turned 20 last month. Whatever, mazel tov!
If age us nothing but a number, why do we feel like we have to hide it?
Google changes the classification of Cougar term to "non-family safe."
