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Topic: COUGAR Dating
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Mon 11/14/11 06:36 AM

In my case, he was someone that I met in my everyday life and he pursued me like a man pursues a woman. There was no insincere flattery, no sleazy chat up lines, no idolisation... Just a guy expressing an interest in a girl BUT he was 10 years younger.

So are you saying as long as the feelings are real and no chat up lines, and they come get you, then you'd give a chance irrespective of the age differences?

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Mon 11/14/11 08:20 AM
it gets old after a while

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Mon 11/14/11 03:32 PM


In my case, he was someone that I met in my everyday life and he pursued me like a man pursues a woman. There was no insincere flattery, no sleazy chat up lines, no idolisation... Just a guy expressing an interest in a girl BUT he was 10 years younger.

So are you saying as long as the feelings are real and no chat up lines, and they come get you, then you'd give a chance irrespective of the age differences?


I don't think so...Although I'm a never say never type of person, I know that I wouldn't dismiss someone without thinking hard about it.

Any conclusion that I came to would be based on the individual but if there was a significant age gap, it would be unlikely.

It would be equally unlikely if a younger man expressed an interest via an online dating site.

I had a conversation with a female friend last week who was being pursued by a younger guy and like me, she isn't a cougar and again this guy was someone that she'd known for a number of years and although she came close, she didn't.

Some things don't sit well and dating someone considerably younger doesn't feel right for a number of women.

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Mon 11/14/11 03:37 PM

I want to point out that this question is relative. Everyone's answer would/ willbe different. I know some "cougars" go out looking for cubbies. But I think most cougars just end up finding that a younger man can be just as compatible with them as an older man.


I agree with this. flowerforyou

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Tue 11/15/11 03:31 AM


I want to point out that this question is relative. Everyone's answer would/ willbe different. I know some "cougars" go out looking for cubbies. But I think most cougars just end up finding that a younger man can be just as compatible with them as an older man.


I agree with this. flowerforyou

It takes a knowing to accept this fact

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Tue 11/15/11 03:56 AM
I personally don't care what individuals do, however I find the whole idea of labeling older women "cougars" ridiculous and insulting, even though most of the time "politically correctness" also makes me nuts. That's probably telling - if I were dating someone younger I'd be labeled. Yuck.

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Tue 11/15/11 07:39 AM

I personally don't care what individuals do, however I find the whole idea of labeling older women "cougars" ridiculous and insulting, even though most of the time "politically correctness" also makes me nuts. That's probably telling - if I were dating someone younger I'd be labeled. Yuck.
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Tue 11/15/11 08:23 AM

I personally don't care what individuals do, however I find the whole idea of labeling older women "cougars" ridiculous and insulting, even though most of the time "politically correctness" also makes me nuts. That's probably telling - if I were dating someone younger I'd be labeled. Yuck.

The name cougar too is what i don't understand how it came into being, but i guess some people somewhere chose to do that. But the men who date younger women are not named, none that i know of

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