We are seeing large age gaps in the dating pool, and not just the typical old-man-younger-woman narrative. For example, a AARP study reported that 34 percent of women over 39 years old were dating younger men. Add in the popularization of divorce over the last 50 years and the introduction of dating apps, and matters of love, sex and how we connect are utterly transformed.
Love is a melting pot.
Family and friends might disapprove, but there are ways to overcome a large age difference in a romantic relationship.
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The two see each other every couple of months. Increasingly, these men are encountering resistance from older women who want their own lives, not a full-time relationship. Today, say researchers studying this cohort, more older women are rejecting the downsides of the live-in relationship: the co-dependence, the daily tension within close quarters and the sacrifices made keeping a home, caregiving and doing the emotional legwork to keep their unions humming. More than 68 per cent of seniors residing alone in were women, according to the latest census data from Statistics Canada.
Widowhood used to account for much of this gender disparity, with women often outliving men. Now, divorce is driving the trend: the share of separated or divorced seniors living alone more than tripled between and , according to the agency. Increasingly it is personal choice — not death — that sees senior-age women going it alone, with 72 per cent reporting they were highly satisfied living on their own, according to data from the General Social Survey.