I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks really - it's all about maturity.
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time such as kindness or cleverness.
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English but with not one recognizable syllable.
What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16 was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks and married to a man she hates and three times her age.
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
Old age is always wakeful as if the longer linked with life the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great and every now and again they do and they are usually 70.
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.