#Women date up free

More than 20 years later, Winter says age-gap relationships are still taboo. “I couldn’t buy eggs or food at my local grocery store because the cashiers were told I was a witch.” “My boyfriend’s mother got people in my community to say I was a detriment to society,” says Winter. She recalls the cruel judgment (and even hate mail) she received while dating a man 16 years her junior than her back in the nineties. Relationship expert and best-selling author Susan Winter wrote a book about age-gap dating called Older Women, Younger Men: New Options for Love and Romance.

#Women date up free

(Even our very own Katie is married to Molner, who’s six years younger, if you want to be exact.) So why are so many, especially other women, quick to judge those who want to date younger pool men? Shouldn’t consenting adults, men or women, be free to love whoever they want? Isn’t age just a number? Are age-gap relationships still taboo? This relationship double standard remains today, despite the trend of older women dating younger men making its way into the mainstream. Why are women who date younger men called things like “cougar” but men who date younger women are called things like “Leonardo DiCaprio?”- The Volatile Mermaid October 4, 2019

But recall how, in the early 2000s, when Demi Moore started dating Ashton Kutcher - who’s 15 years her junior - the media swiftly branded her a “cougar.” What was the male version of this inherently predatory term? There wasn’t one - and still isn’t. When a man couples up with a much younger woman (think George and Amal Clooney or Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones), society either shrugs its shoulders or gives him a hand. And nearly 90 percent of men are interested in dating someone 10 years their senior. According to a Singles in America survey, more than 80 percent of women say they’re interested in dating someone 10 years their junior. But we still have a long road in front of us when it comes to embracing older women who date younger men, even though it’s a growing trend. Over the last decade, we’ve made monumental, even historic, strides toward celebrating relationships in all different shapes and forms: Gay marriage is legal, dating apps now offer options for non-monogamous or open relationships, and there’s more representation of LGBTQ couples in the media than ever before.