YANBU @colachive It really is quite hilarious how so many men feel entitled to a much younger woman. On dating sites it's not unusual for a middle aged/slightly older than middle aged man (45-59) to be looking for a woman between 22 and 35. Of course it's not that weird for an older man to fancy a younger woman, something to do with being attracted to youth and fertility or some bollocks like that, but the amount of men who think they deserve a woman 15+ years younger is hilarious. Most 20-something and 30-something women I know wouldn't touch a man more than 10 years older with a bargepole! The majority of middle aged men/older men have nothing to offer a woman.
The few women who ARE attracted to 'older men' and actually do settle down with them do live to regret it from what I have seen ... A woman I know who is 46 now met her DH when she was 24 and he was 38. She saw a wise, mature, attractive, sexy older man, and hilariously thought other women were jealous of her. 22 years on, she is 46 and he is 60. He is a miserable, curmudgeonly, grumpy git who is always tired, always 'ill' and who has several hobbies that cost a fortune. He spends on himself, whilst she walks around in threadbare clothes she has had for a decade or more. He sees it as his right to spend the money, because he earns it.
She had 3 kids with him when she was 26, 33, and 39, and has not worked since she was 25. He gives her the bare minimum to live on, and has a face like a slapped arse half the time. The age gap is palpable now. She can't leave though, as she has 3 kids (youngest one is 7,) she has no money of her own, nowhere to go, and she hasn't worked for 2 decades, so will find it almost impossible to get a job. She's trapped. With a miserable older man, being kept in near penury, and with no way out, and she can look forward to spending her late 50s and her 60s being her husband's carer. She's already his handmaid and servant!
Jealous of that? Yeah right! 😆Hell would freeze over before I would go for an much older man!