You know, you really should put brain in gear before putting mouth in motion.

Your remark went way beyond just being snarky. It was rude and insulting. You know nothing about my life, much less about my finances.

Nor, do I feel any need to explain anything about my life or my finances to the likes of you. You’re obviously not worth the effort. And, just for your information, my first relationship, at the age of 16, was with a man who was five years my senior…and before you rush to say it, he was not my John either.

I did not take your posting name seriously when I first saw it.

Now I do! It fits you so very well, Bitch!

There weren’t many opportunities to meet other guys my age because they weren’t out or maybe I was looking in the wrong places. But, it was always my choice. No one forced me to do anything. I didn’t tell them my age, I looked older than my age.

BTW, why all the animus toward people over 30 on this board? Is this place like a Disney ride – you must be this age (young or pretending to be young) to get on? It is an epidemic here.

Shock, you guys will get older. Oh my god.

All you have given me is one known example. The rest is all generalities.

And who are you to say who is in love and who is not? I have been in a committed six and one-half year relationship with a man who is 30 younger than me. Are you going now tell me that it is just, how did you put it, “A flash in the pants?’

You assume an awful lot without any evidence.

Do any of you know of an older man who left his older wife for an older woman? I can’t think of one.

Food for thought!

@galefan2004: If Sam Adams is only 35, I’ll eat my own eyeball.

What I have a serious problem with is traditional pederasty and other forms of sexual molestation/exploitation of underaged youth.

As an older gay man, I prefer a partner who is considerably more emothionally mature.