Age Parameters for the May-December Dater; Should You Re-examine Your Cut Off Age?

Age is a very touchy subject for Your Dating Diva’s client’s here at It’s Just Lunch DC. We have those clients who are very open to dating younger and older than they are. We also have clients whose parameters are very specific and very different than their own age. This leaves us asking about age parameters for the May-December dater; should you re-examine your cut off age?

Take our client Jack for example. Jack is a great and well rounded guy. He is very well educated and adventurous, except when it comes to the age of the woman he is dating. Check out how Jack’s last date went…

Your Dating Diva is not droning on about a proverbial cliche male power struggle here, please understand. This issue is definitely not necessarily an older male younger female issue either. May-December relationships occur with older females as well.

There are examples of this in the modern media everyday. Let’s not forget Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s relationship and ABC’s ever popular show “Cougar Town” starring and produced by Ms. Cougar herself, Courtney Cox.

In an article in Marie Claire entitled Does a Big Age Difference Doom a Relationship? Diana Vilibert writes, “Date and let date — unless you’re currently involved in a triad relationship with the May-December couple you’re commenting on, leave it to them to form opinions on how their age gap works for them. Age and maturity often go hand in hand, but you can certainly have one without the other.”

So how do you feel about Jack’s rigidity when it comes to age? Should he look in the mirror and re-examine his cut off age? Or does he have the right to expect exactly what he wants out of a relationship?