Earlier this summer, author and real-life Carrie Bradshaw Candace Bushnell wrote about dating over 60 for The Cut — and found (shockingly) that some men her age showed a preference for younger women.
One man she’d connected with on a dating app, identified as Buckley, told her, “I don’t see age. I’ll date women older or younger but especially younger because we have more in common.”
Predictably, this quote raised the internet’s eyebrows. Buckley, 63, confidently said he felt he had the most in common with women in their mid-20s. He was mainly referring to their similar priorities in relationships, i.e., the desire for no-strings sex.
Out of that context, this statement is at the very least baffling: Why would women with two decades of life experience have the most in common with him and his six?
Sex is one thing, but long-term age-gap relationships are another. Depending on the age of both people in the couple, these relationships are often judged harshly (with some generations having more criticism of these dynamics than others), but they’re not a monolith.
