The reality is a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman no matter what age she is

When we are really young and I think we all go
through a period of thinking we are all that and
a case of chips..

Well golly gee willikers thanks so much for clearing that up for me

Heyyyy I still think Im all that and at least a half a bag of chip

if all you are interested in is the skin that someone comes wrapped in? then yes I could see why a younger package would be appealing to some even though they realize the package they are in is not so young anymore

if you are only interested in how good a woman looks on your arm or how long her legs are or her hair, eye color then you will never look beyond that

like buying a car just because "it's perty"

I hear that statement quite a bit ya know
older women have too much baggage
as if somehow, older men have escaped being influenced by circumstances they have lived thru in life

if all you are looking for is a superficial surface level 'relationship' with someone..ya know someone to go out to dinner with, take home for holidays and show off to family, someone you can gripe to on phone about your day and someone good in bed..

you are 'fond' of this person for all that she may provide for you as long as she continues to do these things but..if she opens her mouth and actually becomes human and speaks of wants, needs, good days, bad days, worries and concerns well now she got waaaaaaaaaay too much baggage

well I forgot where I was going with this..whew must need more coffee
oh then I would argue there was no real love in first place
if you love someone..really love them you accept that whole package
good and bad of who they really are as a person

It's tough if you're a single guy in your forties because most of the good women your age are taken or are "I don't need a man" spinsters. A man that has sworn off women is a rare beast and an oddity but older women that can't be doing with men are ten a penny. They don't need a man and they don't want to be needed.

What's left that an older woman can do that a younger one can't? Well, they can maybe remember where they were when Kennedy was assasinated and be a no nonsense battleaxe with "opinions". They can have an argument with you about literally anything, even if they're completely ignorant about the topic. They have to because they're "strong women". They take the moral high ground by trying to say that brains are sexy, as if anyone under forty is obviously a moron. I've got a degree in philosophy. I've never yet got a woman hot for me by talking about it. It's a turn off. It's worse than politics.

Beauty is an illusion. We waste too much time looking for beauty and forget appreciating people we have around us.

Just saying.

When I was with an older woman I told her that what I liked about her was that she was a strong woman and I meant it. I even said the sorts of things that are in the OP here to her. The problem though is that only saying nice things about someone is flattery and she kept calling BS on me because we both knew that she wasn't all sweetness and light. It just doesn't give the full picture and it's not much better than just saying that they're pretty. A woman would have to be pretty full of herself to think that a guy that only says nice things about her really knows and understands her.

Actually I think in our youth we look for the outer beauty more than we do the inner, as we age we begin to realize the outer is going to go at some point in time and well we had better have been working in the inner.

Flaws are the beauty if u ask me

You have the right of it. It is the flaws in the mountain that the river turns into a beautiful valley.