very simple:
I want to seem younger than I actually am.
I like younger women. I dont want to date a woman my own age. Most of the people I hang out with are younger than I am.
Theres no great mystery there at all, I'm honest about it. Dont really have to "think about it".
very simple answer.
I date women younger than you do and I am older than you. Attractive women.
I don't lie to them.
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I suggest you do.
Peace
What do you hope or expect meeting and dating to lead to? IOW, why are you still available?
In November 1996, I joined the most popular dating site of that time. It originated as a Compuserve BB. After transitioning to the
internet, the option to post a profile photo had been added. Almost no one did, and only about half responded to 37 profile questions intended to detect compatibility. Age was selected in a five year range.
I had been married twice, experiencing just the two relationships spanning continuously the prior 22 years.
The "process" deciding who to meet and then meeting, was sight unseen. It seemed superficial enough, even during my brief participation
through October, 1997, even without the influence of images. I cannot imagine how the lives of either of you have influenced your personalities. What have you built, what are you building on? Does it ever seem like one long, superficial waste of time? You meet others who decide who to meet based on physical appearance, many of you unable or uninterested in committing, or so unrealistic of expectations that the result is perpetual availability.
In eleven months, I met a dozen women, age range 29 to 44. I shared intimacy with the youngest, the oldest, and some in between.
Maybe I was just fortunate, but I found none of them unattractive, most exceeded the expectations I had developed only from messaging and phone conversations before meeting. I met the CoS of a U.S. congressperson, an accountant, an architect, a CFP, an internet network analyst, a director of new media projects, a paralegal, and a book editor of a major publisher.
During every meeting, we shared some of other internet initiated encounters with each other. The "pioneer" aspect helped make our internet dating activity a mutual experience and we could communicate our "turn offs" to each other in an open way I doubt can be as un-self-conscious or guarded as likely reverted back to in the passage of time, compared to older methods of meeting and dating.
I became unavailable when I began an LTR with the oldest woman I had met.
I had a goal, I achieved it. Do either of you ever compare your social lives to Bill Murray's characher's in Groundhog Day?
I mean it became formulaic enough, after just 6 or 7 months, meeting women deep enough not to rely on physical appearance in
choosing who to meet. I guess it helps if perpetual availability is your status, but I wouldn't expect to meet anyone deep or all that interesting, or to impress those of such qualities as all that interesting, yourself.
Sincerity is not easily faked.
