Rowan Pelling's sex advice column: I'm 52 and dating a 29-year-old and my friends and family are shocked. Should I finish it?

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Well, this also should be excused because it is harder to keep large body clean than the tiny one, especially in hard to reach areas. I did not want kids and he was ok with that until he had a midlife crisis. Once he became successful I was booted out of his life.

I did all I could to rectify this problem but all to no avail, i became very worried and needed help. This is coming from a younger woman who accidently stumbled upon this site. He is lamenting the breakdown of his marriage to his second wife, the twenty-something spendthrift Jane, acknowledging his folly in leaving a loyal wife for a beautiful young woman. He was a sexy and sweet guy.

Why is it such a struggle for single women over 45 to meet a soulmate? - Fit healthy people have no difficulties finding partners be they male or female. This is the age of the youngest person you should date.

Never married, she has a son James, now 13, by a man she parted from before her son was born. Ruthie has been looking for a boyfriend for the past decade. These chats were fun — and sometimes quite flirty — but if I ever suggested we meet, the men would often back off, saying they were not looking for a relationship. The imbalance, it seems, is because middle-aged men are looking for partners who are far younger than them. He is paunchy with grey chest hair and not especially rich. Sadly, yes, according to Dr Bernie Hogan, a research fellow at Oxford University. He pointed me towards a research website called OkTrends, which draws on data supplied by more than a million members of OkCupid, one of the biggest dating websites in the world. Age game: Research has shown that middle-aged men are looking for partners who are far younger than them, examples include Michael Douglas, 66 and his wife Catherine Zeta Jones, 41 The typical 42-year-old man will accept a woman up to 15 years younger, but no more than three years older — and the women he enters into online conversation with are almost always at the younger end of the spectrum. Charlotte Phipps is divorced and lives in Newmarket, Suffolk. Aged 53, she works as a secretary. It is incredibly boring and I am lonely. Whenever I go out, men do not tend to look at me. Which is why online is increasingly regarded as the place where over-40s will have the greatest chance of success. Of those who had got together within the past 15 years and were aged 40 or over when they met, four out of ten had met online. But online dating has its own set of rules — and sometimes brutal behaviour. Sarah Browne is 46 and works in communications for a skincare company. She lives in a large Edwardian balcony flat in Brighton. Sarah has no children and has never married. Charlotte Cory, a writer and artist, left her husband after 20 years and, at the age of 50, started surfing for love online. Some older women may be missing out on the chance of finding love, she thinks, because, bruised and rejected in earlier relationships, they lack the confidence and persistence to keep dating until they find a match. Older women may also be scuppering their chances by being too picky. For some, it amounts to a positive decision to remain single. And many, perhaps even The Plankton herself, would simply rather be alone than with the wrong man.

Dating Outside Your Age Bracket
I think some men like to date much younger women to boost their ego. I focussed mainly on the profiles of the women on the sites and was only really interested in women from their late thirties through to mid to late forties. I have found the only people interested in me now are married men looking for a fling or men much older looking for someone 10 years younger. Not sure if many people there really deal with reality. I derive a lot of pleasure out of sharing my time with five very fine young men and women whom I am proud to call family. If a 50s Man asks you out on a date, he's going to pay. To me it was what life was about. We keep in touch during the week by texting once or twice to make plans for the upcoming weekend he is an introvert and does not do telephone conversations very well.