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Is it okay to date someone a lot older?

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CheeryMentor · 10/12/2025 12:57

I am really just interested in the spark, fun and sex.

He is 55. I am 27.

I have been separated from my husband for about 6 months but prior to that, hadn’t had sex in about 2 years as he didn’t want to. He was a similar age to me.

Anyway, there’s someone I really, really like. But he is 55.

I am a carer to two DC and have no interest in getting myself involved seriously with anyone. I don’t really have the time and my set up is an unusual one. It’s just too complex to be adding any potential partner to the mix in the near future.

This man likes all the same music as me. And we seem to ‘gel’. I get butterflies. Really want to sleep with him

Friends say I am mad to do it. I’m 27 and ‘hot’, they say. Date someone much younger as sleeping with someone that much older suggests you have issues

What do you think? Up for some Mumsnet wisdom on this one

My mum and aunty sort of know him. Family friend but haven’t seen him for years apart from this week at a gathering. Prior to that, about 10+ years since seeing him

Is it really so bad to have some fun here?

OP posts:
FauxWhiteOrchid · 02/04/2026 07:54

What did you do OP?

Cheeriooo · 02/04/2026 07:58

This age gap is several years larger than the one between me and my parents. Is it that hard to find a man in his late 20s-late 30s? He’ll be a pensioner in 10 years.

edit - just realised someone up the thread resurrected an old thread.

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