Like many other professional singles, you have probably gotten the message that you should get you career established first and then find love.

As a result, women are pursuing higher educations and placing their focus on work, rather than marriage.

Socially, there is a role reversal of sorts going on, women are more powerful, and may want men who are younger and therefore, more flexible: men who can handle it if the woman’s career and lifestyle are more important.

Movies and TV shows are also showing women that dates don’t have to be older.

Women who have been divorced and are established single moms may enjoy having a playmate, someone to have fun with, who doesn’t try to control her. Romance gets a lot of letters about older women dating younger men, which appears to be shocking to some people, but I don’t find it so unusual.Why would a younger man want to date an older woman?When I was in my early twenties, if a guy acted aloof, called back only sometimes and showed minimal interest, I would get hooked.You could say I was addicted to the bad boy/ unavailable boy/ player.