Would you date someone who was quite a bit older or younger than you? Age gaps in the dating world fascinate me.
When I’m matchmaking, I always try and be liberal about age and encourage my clients to adopt that attitude too. I’ve set up younger guys with older women - interestingly, the men usually don’t have a problem with but nine times out of ten, the women do.
I think singletons judge potential suitors based on their age far too quickly. I appreciate everyone has their own preconceived views on how big an age gap should be but what is that based upon? Just because someone may have been born ten years before or after you doesn’t mean you should rule them out of being a potential match. It’d be pretty wild and quite frankly unrealistic if everyone was born in the same year as their soulmate anyway.
Nearly a decade ago when I was working at my first ever grownup job a colleague of mine told me she was struggling with dating and that the apps were dead. Unbeknownst to me at the ripe age of 21 my colleague was living my future. Anyway, I advised her to adjust her settings and make that age range wider and particularly, younger. Lo and behold she matched with her now husband who is a couple of years younger than herself. Little did I know that long before I even set up my business and became a self-proclaimed matchmaker, I was already subtly influencing the dating world!
