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What are your rules when it comes to age, and how do you feel about different generations dating each other? How do you feel about a Gen Xer dating someone from Gen Z, possibly. How do you feel about a millennial dating somebody from the Gen X generation? What are your thoughts on that? Can we date cross generationally, or do we have to stay in our generation? What are your thoughts on that? I'd love to hear it
Tammy Johnson
@TamBam · 1:30
So I'm like I just feel like it depends on the maturity of the person that you're going after. And I don't want to say you could put an age on it, because I don't mess some older guys, and they real immature, and I don't mess some younger guys, and they're pretty mature, but they're just not for me. So I just think depends on the maturity of that guy that you're talking to according to their age
Brian Foreman
@BKFOREMAN69 · 3:58
She's 35, I'm 53. Might as well say 18 and three quarters because I will be 54 soon and my children are 2022-2426. And she has a soon to be six year old daughter and a 14 year old son. So what I've learned over the years is that you can't predict who you'll be attracted to, but you were talking about dating in different generations. When they don't get your pop culture references, that's when you realize they're probably too young
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 2:40
And that can be a little bit awkward, too. You also have some older men that are still into very childish things. They still like to go to the clubs. They still like to chase after women even though they're middle aged now. And so, yeah, it can definitely make a difference. And you said you have a child, and that makes a difference too, because like you said, younger people, they have a tendency to get up and go
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 1:45
Hey, Brian, thank you for chiming in. Even though you have an 18 year age difference between you and your girlfriend, I don't really think it's that big of a deal when you're both full grown adults. She's 35, so she's had plenty of adult life experiences at this point. And so it's not the same as if you were 36 and she was 18. That would be a little bit different
Adriane
@Royalcapability · 2:04
Age is a mind thing, and I don't mind getting off the subject of dating. I don't mind telling a person my age. But sometimes you have to be careful, because once you tell them your age, it's like they put you in a box by your age, per your age. So you just have to pick and choose who to share your age with. But back to the dating question
Everything Jay
@everythingjay · 3:44
Now I'm kind of at a point where it's like, I think I want to date closer to my age, or like 35 at least. Because I don't know, I think that I'm still, like you said, I haven't experienced a lot of different things. Yeah, I had a son and I had a little brief period of having what it was supposed to be, a family. But I never been married
Moe Johnson
@NeophyteSavant · 4:54
I think that's, you know, it's it's kind of creepy to me. Maybe it's not, but it's not for me. But another thing with young girls, as far as getting involved with them, we are going in different directions, especially for a younger female that that may want to start a family. I'm not looking to have any more children. I'm not trying to take her youth from her
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 1:02
Like how is he under pressure? How does he function in adversity? These things are so important, more so than age. Because we would be surprised how people function in adverse situations regardless of their age. Some younger people are just more resilient and they can handle pressure. Older people, maybe not so much. Those things are so super important. You nailed it completely. So thank you so much for chiming in. I really appreciate it
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 2:39
That's why I said, hey, I'll date an older man if he's fun, if he's adventurous, if he's open to new things, I'm willing to do that. I don't want to date an older man that just wants to come home, sit in front of the TV, watch movies, or sit on the front porch and watch the traffic go by. And that's pretty much all we do. We don't really do anything
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 3:34
I think the majority of men aren't really out here seeking or chasing or pursuing a young, young woman. The majority of men are fine dating a woman or marrying a woman that's around their age. The majority of men don't mind women. And the aging thing that comes with us, as far as our beauty is concerned, a lot of men really don't mind that either. They really don't mind a woman that's overweight
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Ann-Gela Kaye
@DearAuntyAng · 2:09
Like, I'll go to New York City to go get waffles or go get soul food, right? And I haven't found anyone that wants to do that. So I've always leaned towards older, although I do attract younger, and I've always curved them, always been like, no thinking. They probably don't know how old I am or whatever. And they do. They're like, yeah, I know. And so I've never done that
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:53
And women are not going to stick around for inconsistent men, especially men who are inconsistent and not a man of his word. He tried to grovel and and come back with some other type of alternative date. I was like, no. One, two, three strikes, done. And I was really being generous because I was just curious about a 28 year old. But NASA. We're done. So five years. I don't think I will go younger than two years than my age
Dj strahan
@Firstmoon · 4:29
But with the dating age now and I see like all on social media and also for TV and just random, I see people who are dating people at a younger age. So I don't think it really matters as long as you both are sort of compatible. Now, I think somebody, I think you said you was in your forty s I wouldn't date anybody like in their 20s because I don't think they matured enough. So I don't think I would do that
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