It's a common "fact" that women mature faster than men, but the definition of the word is vague at best when applied to them. When a boy matures into a man, he gets better. When a girl matures into a woman she gets arguably worse. Older women are still women.

I use to be one of them, but many men will say older women are far better to date. Let's be real, if she's older and has no kids then there's already something wrong with her, and if she has kids then that means she's a single mother and you don't want to date that anyway. She's past the wall at this point and it just goes downhill, so she might be a hot milf for a few years at best, and cougars can't be trusted. I don't care if her kids are over 18, as soon as you're no longer a "hot young buck" she'll be over you for the next Archie Andrews type. Men age like a fine wine, but she's already sour milk at that age. I'm not saying they can't be fun to pump-and-dump, but you'll never want to date one.

My most recent example is in my personal life and woke me up even more to this. My aunt always displayed herself as a smart educated family woman, and someone I spent my life looking up to and respecting. She was a teacher and had even been principal at a few schools and was loved by all. She took in her mother (my Nana) into a granny sweet on the side of their home and it was the last place we had family gatherings. I was a fool to think her female nature could have hidden itself. Around a year ago she began to cheat on her hard working husband, and it wasn't necessarily with better men. The people she ran around with were gross low-life's with nothing to offer but a different and greasier dick. She didn't even trade up. So of course the marriage ended when he found out, and she was making so many shitty decisions that she got blackballed from ever working in her field again, and lied to me that she "got her own townhouse and things were great". She was couch surfing with random dudes and living out of her car. My aunt clearly needed mental help and/or to be medicated but she refused completely and said she's "finally happy" doing all of this. Proud even. Now she's living with some gross hopped up weed-dealer the next city over with nothing to her name. Because of the divorce they could no longer afford the nice house anymore and she forced her own mother to the streets to find low-income housing and will make the rest of her years completely miserable. She even guilted my Nana into "loaning" her $6000 for a "down payment on a new place" when there was no new place and she just took the money and ran. My uncle has been far happier and is super close with his kids, but they want nothing to do with their mother. None of her family does. Every time she sees me at work she just inappropriately brags about all the dick she's riding on Tinder and tells me that the rest of our family is "so cruel for not supporting her". This woman is nearly 50.

Don't think for a single moment that dating an older women will yield greater quality. Older women are still women, no matter what.