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- Subject: Re: younger & more experienced man
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- From: soswald@charlie.usd.edu
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:28:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.112335.23590@e2big.mko.dec.com>, elnsys@muhpm1.enet.dec.com (Gravity Storm account) writes:
- >Hum,
- > Don't know about 6 years. But it appears between 9 and 10
- >years age difference does cause some sort of problem from my
- >past experience. In getting to know a woman recently, she was 10 years
- >younger then I, I found no problems when communicating over the
- >network with her and even when talking with her. It appears though
- >that she had some problems with the age as she has recently
- >been rather cool about taking the relationship any further.
- >
- >I think age plays a bigger role when one is in their 20's ,as this
- >is when a lot of major changes take place in ones personailty.
- >Just think at this point the younger of the two people may not even
- >be out of university and the older of the two may well be into their
- >chosen career. The older person will probally have sown most of their
- >wild seeds also, while the younger still has the desire to plant a few more
- >gardens ).
- >
- >But on the other hand, this type of age difference can be good because
- >their is a lot the older person can teach the younger person. The older
- >person usally has much more time for romance also as he has a lot of
- >the getting started in a career stuff out of the way. The older person
- >probally would be a much more patient lover and listener as he
- >has learned (hopefully) from past relationships what being a thoughtful
- >partner is about.
- >
- >The younger person would be good for the older in that they would
- >bring a much more youthful way of looking at life back to the older one.
- >They could do this in such ways as new music, food, friends etc..
- >I can also attest to that the younger person helps the older one to
- >re-look at everything in his life again and start his mind thinking about
- >things that have long been dormant.
- >
-
- I'm in a relationship with a man who is 10 years older than me, and the best
- part of the relationship is that he seems to have his priorities straight.
- Before meeting Jerry, I mostly went out with men my age or younger, and the
- main *priority* for these guys was to get laid, if it happened enough, there
- was a relationship, if it didn't, the relationship went bye-bye. Communication
- with me took second (if not third) fiddle, it was almost like.....once we were
- in a relationship, I no longer mattered(?). (Of course, it could be just the
- type of person I'm attracted to, but I'm working on that!! *grin* ;-)
-
- It is refreshing to be in a relationship where we actually communicate, laugh,
- and enjoy similar things.
-
- The down side is that I don't know if we can combine lifestyles successfully.
- He's used to doing things one way and the way I do things won't necessarily
- mess very well. There's compromise of course, but . . . . .
-
- Love can be so hard.
-
- -Sandy Munkvold
- SOSWALD @ charlie.usd.edu
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