Warning: This story contains spoilers for the first season of "Love Is Blind. Forget "The Bachelor": This month, reality TV fans are buzzing about the new Netflix dating show "Love Is Blind," where singles first started dating by speaking to each other in "pods" where they couldn't see each other's faces. Sounds weird, but it worked. Several couples fell in love, got engaged — and a few even got married. One of the more talked about couples were Jessica Batten, 34, and Mark Cuevas,

A strong connection is real, no matter the age difference.

Debunking ‘Cougardom’
Robin Stanton supposes her appreciation for younger men was honed during the feminist revolution. Growing up in Ohio in the s, she married her high school sweetheart at age They had two children, but before long she realized her traditional marriage was killing her soul. To Stanton's dismay, her husband seemed threatened by her intelligence and high spirits, as well as her singing career. I was a golf widow all weekend, every weekend.
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Jump to navigation. Why is it still such a sensational topic and what are the perks and pitfalls of entering into partnership where age knows no bounds? According to the piece, the main driving force that brought cougars in from the wilderness was Hollywood. On the other hand, the aptly-named Cougar Town bolsters a smuttier stereotype. Without getting too entangled in semantics, EliteSingles resident psychologist, Salama Marine , is quick to discuss this point. Around about the same time cougardom exploded into the mainstream, social scientists became increasingly immersed in researching age-dissimilar couples where the woman is the older party. Prompted by this shift in the demographics of modern relationships, a team of sociologists at the University of Maine set about investigating the reality of older women wedded to younger men. In their study, Sandra Caron, Mary Logue and Nichole Proulx interviewed eight married couples where the wife was between 10 to 17 years older than the husband. Their findings revealed that whilst both partners were content with their relationship, they still worried about how others judged them.
By Christian Gollayan. May 17, pm Updated July 26, pm. When it came to finding love in New York, Amber Soletti, a year-old who lives in the West Village, had no luck dating older guys or men her own age. In , she met Juan Cabrera, now 34, at one of her mixers and soon fell in love. The happy couple got engaged in March. Such May-December couplings are no longer seen as relationship outliers — or indicative of deep-seated mommy issues. New French President Emmanuel Macron, 39, has a wife, Brigitte, who is 24 years his senior , while supermodel Heidi Klum, 43, has been dating art dealer Vito Schnabel, 30 , for more than three years. Actress Gabrielle Union, 44, and her husband, Chicago Bulls player Dwyane Wade, 35, are often lauded as a power couple.