The ‘Value’ of Older Women

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The ‘Value’ of Older Women

In one of our previous blogs, we examined a possible reason for the increase of older woman younger man relationships: improved gender equality. Another possible cause is the Social Exchange Theory, which when applied provides an equally exciting insight into the development of women’s role in society. The Social Exchange Theory of relationships is a […]
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Why All My Girlfriends Are Older

Why have all my girlfriends been older then me? This is a question that only recently surfaced to the fore following the end of a brief but memorable relationship with a woman several years my senior.  I don’t consider myself as much of a spring chicken (I’m 34) anymore.  Then again I recall a time […]
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The rise and reinvention of the word cougar and cougar dating

The Rise and Reinvention of the ‘Cougar’

Cougar, noun 1.North American term for puma. 2. informal, an older woman seeking a sexual relationship with a younger man. Though cougar dating has always existed, it has been said that the term ‘cougar’ when used to mean an older woman sexually pursuing a younger man first occurred as recently as the 1980s in Canada. An […]
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Toyboy dating: an expression of our gender equality?

Older woman younger man relationships are on the rise. The amount of exposure given to “cougar” relationships in gossip columns and on television gives the impression that they are now commonplace, and certainly fashionable. A Google search for the term ‘cougar women’ will produce 64,700,000 results – that’s twenty times the amount available in 2010. […]
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Happy Mother’s Day

Today is Mother’s Day, the one day of the year when we must not fail to recognise the monumental part played in each of our lives by our mothers, grandmothers and (if you’re really lucky) great grandmothers. Though today we celebrate above all these inspirational maternal figures, lets also recognise the role of all single […]
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A Daughter’s Guide to Online Dating

My personal insight into online dating began through watching the experiences of my mother. When I was a mere 14 year old girl, sick to death of my mother being single after a messy divorce, I signed her up (without her knowledge) to a dating website. Now, 8 years on, she is engaged to the […]
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Two by Two

Dating these days is tantamount to Noah’s Ark, pairs and pairs are heading up towards altars taking their gleaming smiles and happy endings away from all of us older dreamers down here.  By older, I mean older than I was a few years ago, not incapacitated to the point of throwing me into a home […]
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Love in the Time of Social Media

Look around the room at the people near to you, chances are one of them is on their phone right now. They might be texting, but they are probably on social media. There are 9,100 tweets every second, 81 million fake profiles on Facebook and there are people out there who met partners through Pinterest […]
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Different Not Desperate

Spring is springing, the birds are um…..nesting……and a new crop of Toy boys has miraculously sprouted on TBW. Lovely likely lads with a penchant for putting their big feet right in the wrong place as far as I can see. Which brings me to the title above: like most of the women on TBW. —I am different, but […]
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