My dad is nearly 60. He has been through woman after woman all his life. He has just announced he is engaged to his 27 year old Romanian girlfriend (he doesn't speak Romanian, she speaks very little English). I am 27 myself so the age thing really gets to me.
He has potential ASD traits but also is plain difficult. Every relationship has been the same: affair, quick engagements, a few years of 'honeymoon period' and then kids come along and by the time they are 8 he gets bored, hates the attention not being on him and the inevitable difficulties of family life. Then he has an affair (always with a much younger woman - e.g. last time she was 19, this time 27) and eventually ditches his wife for the next one. Each time he makes his ex-wife feel they are to blame. He does the whole 'mid life crisis' script and has them doing everything to save the relationship while he has no intention of staying in it.
I now have very little contact with him. I really resent him for how he left my mum, was emotionally abusive, didn't contact me for a year when he first left as he moved abroad without telling me and never apologised or took any kind of blame for what he did to our family (I was 9 when he left). It makes me even more cross to see he has done it again to the next wife and then the next and each time he has moved half way across the world from his other kids and barely sees them again (partly his choice, partly me and my step siblings rejecting him).
It is a cycle and I can only see it going on and on. People say you can't judge relationships based on age but it kills me to see an innocent, probably quite naive woman, be taken in by his fake initial charm. I hate to think of the kids he will no doubt have with her and then eventually abandon again. I wish I could warn her but I know I'd come across as a psycho daughter!
Just posting for a rant and anyone who can share experiences or words of wisdom.