Good news on the "Older Men, Younger Women" front: A quarter of millennials are looking to date someone significantly older than them
"According to research from the world's largest dating app Badoo, many millennials are trying to find a partner who is significantly older than them. A sample of 10,500 people on the Badoo database revealed that 26% of 18-24 year olds would date someone over the age of 35."
26%? Actually, if one is an older man, it gets better - as you might well imagine, young women are significantly more likely to date older men than young men are to date older women.1 Ten years? 1/3 of Millenials are ok with that: "Nearly a third of women have dated someone 10 years older, and 9% of men would date someone 20 years older than them."
"Millennials are looking to date someone who is older; as with age comes maturity and also the connotation of having your life together," Moujaes said. "Dating someone older can be seen as a fast-track route into leading a stable life, which for a lot of millennials is enticing."
Indeed. When my OLTR1 arrives at Maison Zaitzev, it is like an oasis for her. No parents, no little brother, no worries. She knows she will get to enjoy the tranquility of "Stately Zaitzev Manor", walk around naked, enjoy good food and wine, and get boned in pretty much every room in the house.
There is little scientific evidence that women who go for older men have broken attachment styles - known colloquially as "daddy issues." (Just in case that's what you were thinking.) For example, one study from 2016, published in the journal Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, found that women in couples with small and large age gaps were similar in both attachment style and relationship satisfaction.
This is typically used to shame younger women who prefer older men, but hey, I say: "Come to DADDY!"
Ultimately, the survey does suggest many millennials are looking for a relationship with older people, and the reasons for that are completely speculative. Some people might just like the idea of dating someone with more experience - and dating sites are a really easy way to make that happen.
I prefer Day Game for this myself, but that's just a preference. The nice thing about dating apps, one imagines, for young women who prefer older men, is that they aren't going to be shamed online for their preferences.
Also, I imagine that bluepills have gotten the vapors and clutched their pearls early on - "Noooooooo! Average middle-aged guys totes can't have causal sex with 18-21 year old hot sorority girls! You can't do it, so you had better marry a tatted up bar slut quick, before all the good ones are taken! No fair! No fair! Auuuugh! It's DAYLIGHT! Where's my COFFIN!!!"2
The TRP prescription is: Don't be average. This is why we tell you to Lift. This is why we tell you to eat clean. This is why we preach to you to Be the Best Version of Yourself that you can be. Not everyone gets to be an astronaut, but there are at least a couple things that you can become excellent at.3 Do those, build your self-confidence, develop abundance mentality and go chat up some girls.
Why? Because Faint Heart Never Fucked Fair Lady
Further reading:
Older Men, Younger Women: How & When It Can Work
-For Older Men who prefer Younger Women, and vice versa.
Now go forth and SLAY!
1 As I have said before, everyone cuts their own deal in life, and if an older gal can sell the "cougar fantasy" to a younger guy, then good for her. But that ain't usually how that goes.
2 This was actually the theme of a "CMV" post over on PPD recently. The structure of the question is designed to imply a particular answer which is why it's set up as "average" guys getting "hotties". All the better to maintain their bluepill illusion. Why? Because self-improvement is difficult; sitting on your ass watching porn, eating Cheetos and jacking off is easy. If the illusion is shattered, then the bluepills will have to work at shit, too.
3 I write and perform original music and front my own band. When my OLTR2 found that out, she said, point blank and out loud, "I'm going to have to re-evaluate how cool you are." You may not be a musician or whatever, but there is something you can do and be good at. I also play co-rec beach volleyball in the summer. It's good exercise and it puts me around young women.
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