Why younger women like older men

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One study suggests that the younger-woman-older-man relationship has no unique psychological qualities. An age gap alone is not sufficient to predict who will be happiest with whom in a relationship. Source: LightField Studios/Shutterstock.

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After the wedding of a celebrity husband and his much younger wife
media coverage invariably focuses on the inappropriateness of the age gap. Whether it’s the new dad George Clooney (56) and his 18-year-younger wife
Amal
or Donald Trump (70) and his First Lady
Melania (age 47)
commentators become psychoanalysts
suggesting that the younger woman is clearly seeking a father figure. Similar stories are triggered by the (much less-common) pairing of a younger man with an older woman
as with 39-year-old French president Emmanuel Macron
and his wife
Brigitte
64. The rarity of such weddings makes them novelties
but not fodder for the same type of speculation. It’s well-known that men tend to marry women younger than themselves
a pattern that leads to increasingly unbalanced male-to-female gender ratios as you move up to older and older age groups. Men also have a lower life expectancy than women
leaving women in the 75-and-up age bracket with fewer and fewer choices of heterosexual partners. An age difference of up to 10 years is generally not looked at askance by anyone who knows how old each partner is
but as that gap gets closer to 20
things start to look a bit more off balance. Once a man is literally old enough to be a woman’s father (or vice versa
for older women)
public opinion starts to shift from acceptance to skepticism. St. Mary’s University’s (Halifax) Sara Skentelbery and Darren Fowler examined the phenomenon of “age gap relationships” (AGRs) from an evolutionary perspective
noting that such pairings have benefits in terms of species survival. A middle-aged or older man pairing with a younger woman
from this viewpoint
ensures that he will continue to have offspring at older ages than would be possible with a peer who is past childbearing age. There are some assumptions within this framework — for example
that people behave in ways that are intended to guarantee the future of the species rather than in response to sociocultural influences. This argument contrasts with the sociocultural perspective
which proposes that negative attitudes involved in ageism and sexism cause older women to be seen as less physically attractive to potential mates. The sociocultural perspective for understanding the pairing of older men and younger women explains not just that younger women seem physically more attractive to aging males
but that the older man represents socially valued attributes that lead his younger partner to want to bond with him. With age
men may acquire greater power or possess more property
financial and otherwise. The older men with the most appeal to younger women would be those with financial prosperity who are willing to heap some of those financial rewards onto their partner. Meanwhile
these older men believe they’ll accrue even more power and status by sporting their younger
glamorous
and well-outfitted new spouse. Skentelbery and Fowler wanted to investigate whether it’s true that the women in such pairings were seeking father figures for psychological reasons. Because these relationships are more prevalent when they involve older men and younger women
the authors didn’t perform an analogous study of “mommy figures." If it’s true that younger women in AGRs are seeking father figures
then it would be expected that they would have maladaptive relationships with their fathers which play out in adulthood by their choice of a mate. The framework that the St. Mary's researchers used to test this proposition is attachment theory.













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