The warning by the judge to Garner (who I think is the one who filed) is a little odd, since the statute is a discretionary dismissal after 2 years and mandatory after 5. If she indeed filed in April 2017 she’s still got plenty of time.

Like when I told a coworker we couldn’t date because I don’t want to complicate our workplace relationship.

I feel like MPG is just being nice because he knows it will never happen? Instead of being like, “No. That’s dumb.” He’s like, “Yeah, maybe, under very specific yet vague circumstances, I would consider it.”

I know, 7 years past my prime!

It may not be meant to be condescending, but it is frequently experienced as such.

I suppose it’s possible that the numbers are particularly skewed by the fact that most of the relatively-reasonable men are coupled up after a certain age. Men-seeking-women in particular have a strong incentive to ~settle down~ because of cultural norms re: both household labor and emotional labor, while it’s just…

These studies depress me as a 36-year-old woman. I get asked out by 29-year-old men more than any other age. People always ask me why I date younger so often, but the truth is men my own age don’t message me often. I think they’re probably messaging mid-20's women.

I’m in my late 30's and I’m going to back up Renard.  Mid-30's to early 40's for me.  Early 30's MAYBE.  20's? Nope.  Different world.

I was thinking along these lines as well. Also, that men of all ages on dating sites are probably looking more for sex, whereas women are looking for relationships — women who just want sex don’t need necessarily need websites. Hence the age-appropriate skew. Although, even men who say they are looking for…

Nobody, it’s a stick-free environment!

Right? I’m a women in my early thirties and now I look at men under about 28 and think they look like babies! Sometimes very cute, objectively good looking babies, but never someone that I want to make out with.

I am on these dating apps and several times the men have complained about how the younger girls don’t have anything interesting to talk about/are vapid. I am 35 so the men are in their 30s. I am like you don’t get to complain since you have the age range set that low.

I know you didn’t mean anything by this comment, but still. I’m someone who’s the only single person in their social circle (I’m 25, it’s just that literally everyone I know coupled up as soon as college ended), who’s been on-and-off dating apps for a few years, and who wants to be in a relationship, or at least to hav…

When I was online dating in my mid-30s (with, say, a 35-45 interest range) I would immediately ignore any guy who self-reported a similar age and desired women 18+ or 18-25. The difference between 35 and 45 is doable. 35/40/45 and 18? 20? 25? What do these people talk about on dates? I totally imagine this -- 

There are also an astonishing number of dudes in their 20's who think every woman over 40 is a cougar. I know this, because they tell me about it everywhere I go online.

Why is it so unbelievable to think that a man could find a woman his own damn age attractive?

It’s possible he’s very good at writing a persuasive profile that gets lots of matches (presuming he uses apps). Plus using youthful-looking pics. Then they find out the truth in person.

Eh, I want to see the methodology. I’m a Black woman who dated men online after 30. Statistically, I should be buying another cat and knitting them another sweater - but I found my dude within the first week of posting. I’m not thin, I have never been conventionally attractive- not that it matters, my post didn’t have…

For me, it’s a personality thing. When I got on a dating app, at 30, the thought of going on an actual date with a 18-22 year old was cringeworthy. What would we talk about? How would I be able to slog through that conversation?

To be fair, testicles are pretty gross at any age.