I was married to a woman 16 years my senior for 17 years. I met her when I was twenty, and had no idea what I was doing. I was miserable for two decades (except for the part where I raised a beautiful son). I've been involved with older women, younger women, women the same age as me...not to mention white women and…

Thank you! She is, and we are!

Thank you! We are absurdly happy together. So they don't have that system in the North American version? They really should. It gives the user a chance to stand out a bit and makes visitors to your profile that much more comfortable. In Match.com Japan, you can verify by item, so you can simply verify your name, for…

Thank you. My wife is 38 and I'm 48. We're both professionals, and neither of us was looking for a particularly race or nationality.

Whacky, isn't it?

Thank you. I'm 48 and she's 38.

Thank you. My 38 year-old wife and I are very happy together.

The question is why Match.com would have to do this in the first place. It's not as if the site is not overflowing with profiles already. I met my wife (who is also quite beautiful) through Match.com. What is much more likely is that a third party is making these profiles in order to try to defraud Match.com customers…

The downside of this phenomenon is that I will no doubt go to my grave with my first spouse's features engraved in my memory.

This is so true! I find it really hard to remember conventionally pretty faces. Just last night on the train back to Kyoto from Osaka, there was a terribly pretty young sitting across from me. Literally the moment she got up to exit the train and moved out of my idld of vision, I had forgotten all but the most vague…

Thank you for this. I was really annoyed by that piece but didn't have the mental energy to work out exactly why and how. You did the hard work for me! Since Gottlieb's all about anecdotes, here's one for her: my wife and I strive for and mostly achieve equality in household chores, and we have an awesome sex life. I…

I pity the fool who makes that comparison.

Other celebrities I ran into in my five years in Manhattan's Upper West Side include Charles Kimbrough (this was when Murphy Brown was still on the air), Linda Hunt, Georgia Engel (who was still adorable almost twenty years after the Mary Tyler Moore show went off the air), Richard Simmons (he gave me a big smile and…

Ha! No, I found this one with Google image search. I wanted a photo of him that reminded me of how he looked when I ran into him, and this one (a still from Jean-Pierre Limosin's 1998 Tokyo Eyes) was pretty damned close. In reality I didn't realize who it was until he was close enough to touch, and I just walked by…

That happened to me half a dozen times with celebrities when I was living in New York. "I have to say hi to this person, because I know him/her, but I can't remember where I know him/her from." The biggest surprise was when that happened with a Japanese celebrity (TAKEDA Shinji) who was walking alone in an obscure…

I can't even bring myself to engage with the awful trolls commenting here. I would like to believe they slunk in from the darker corners of the Gawker-sphere and are not Jezebel regulars.

She's pretty awesome, to be sure.

For a professional interviewer, Morgan is hilariously incapable of listening. Following this ongoing train wreck, I couldn't help thinking of the contrast with Japan's most famous interviewer, 80 year-old KUROYANAGI Tetsuko. She prepares for interviews by reading/viewing/listening to everything that person has ever…

I can't believe that 67 people have recommended this troll's bit of bile. I hope they wondered over here from some darker corner of Gawker and are not Jezebel regulars.

I hope my own biracial/bilingual/bicultural son (now 21) feels the same way you do. I suspect he does.