Mom waited many years to take flight. At 50, her career in insurance had begun to drag, and she went back to school. By 60, when Dad was exhausted from a working life, she finished college and became the financial wizard she was always meant to be. He turned inward, but she was raring to go. Men find younger women attractive as a symbol of youth.
Women seek older men as a symbol of strength.
I wanted to meet a man on level ground. Men get shaky in their 40s just as women get stable. Send in the clowns. The midlife crisis is making mincemeat of most of the men I know. Meanwhile, the women get stronger by the day.