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Wheeler, a fiery redhead who lives outside Baltimore, leaned back in her chair and sighed.
I was a cougar before there were cougars. She listed a string of young men with whom she had various relationships, occasionally punching numbers into a calculator to determine age differences she had never considered in the first place. For Wheeler and other women like her, younger men — many of them 15 years or more their juniors — are a natural fit. Widowed, separated, or divorced, a growing number seek young men for dating and companionship. And since men have been dating younger women for ages, why are so many of us surprised — shocked, even — that women would follow suit?
These days, real-life cougars are stars like Demi Moore who, in her 40s, married then-twenty-something heartthrob Ashton Kutcher , the coiffed reality-show cast of The Real Housewives of Orange County, and, yes, everyday women — suburbanites and city-slickers alike. A year-old woman going out with a year-old guy is considered creepy. Why the double standard? Smith figured it comes down to science: All scientific notions aside, older women opt for younger men for the same reasons that older men select younger women.
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A whopping 34 percent of women over 40 are dating younger men, according to a survey. The same poll, which surveyed 3, single people both women and men aged 40 to 69 years old, found that 56 percent are currently separated or divorced from a spouse, 31 percent have never been married, and seven in 10 74 percent of formerly married singles in their 50s have been single for five years or more.
For Wheeler, younger men have been a natural fit for an energetic lifestyle that her male peers have never quite matched. In fact, the stuff of the past may be what keeps her from dating men closer to her age altogether.
That and music, of course. And being stuck in the music they listened to in college. Men, of course, have their reasons for dating older women , too.
The year-old works in L. And that works out just fine for these young men, who often prefer relationships—whether fleeting or long-term—with cougars.
So be it if the relationship goes further. Smith has found young men to be quite enthusiastic about spending time with her, and she definitely enjoys the attention. After all, she has worked hard for it, with ample sessions of yoga, calculated vitamin concoctions, a good diet, and even a little Botox here and there.
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