It’s funny I never knew any women in my twenties that were actually attracted to men that were significantly older than them. It wasn’t common, not in the way it’s talked about on this site. The majority of women in that age range date men within that age range. In any case the friends I know that dated men in their forties were using the men for money. At Howard it was a known thing: young women fukking older men(sugar daddies) to pay bills. I don’t think the men in these situations are stupid, they’re aware of the reason these women are fukking them, but it’s an arrangement that works well for both groups. The men fukks a young pretty thing, the type he couldn’t pull when he was her age but now that he’s accomplished he can pull her, and the woman gets a man willing to trick on her.
I don’t think either parties get in these relationships trying to build much of anything.