the one thing i cant understand from people, is that when anne nicole smith married that billionaire, they didnt complain much, only a slight murmur, then when an ordinary person marries a 16yo, they are up in arms, they want to decapitate that persons head

well if it was them, they sure wouldnt hell be complaining would they though? its easy for them to say they wouldnt do it, when they are not involved in some way

I never really liked this idea of "outside the box" because in my opinion "the box" only really exists if you beleive it to.

That's really what I meant Scottie - 'the box' being someone's little pigeon hole for you....'outside the box' being that you don't conform to their standard.

I never use that saying, it means nothing if you don't believe on "the box" Lmao

Do you know Scottie, I think that might well be the first time I've ever used that cliche myself - I just couldnt think of a quick way to say what I was trying to say without rambling too much.
The term "thinking outside the box" conjurs up images of boffins on telly trying to be arty-farty and clever, but it did the job hey, you knew what I was trying to say!

I forgot about this old thread I started.

Well, I've sinced turned 50. Don't feel any different. I have noticed a change in trend in visitors to my profile page though (not on FB, another site), that one assumes is age related. When I was 49 most of my visitors were between 37 - 48. I notice that now my age is shown at 50, the majoirty of my profile visitors are 53 - 60. (Strangely enough also a few sub-25's......but they probably just want to see what someone who is old enough to be there dad and still on a dating site looks like )

Do you think its cuz it's a rounded figure? 50? When doing that "search" thang, I choose "40-65" - not because 39 is too young, or 66 too old, they are just nicely rounded figures you know?
So maybe people type in 50-60 or summat and you come up so they check out your profile? Where as you wouldn't have maybe when you were 49. Possibly? Just a thought.

Is it a new trend, to stick with one's own age group?

I ask cuz when I was 20 and my hubby was 43 there were lots of couples like us - mainly the woman being younger. Both our ages and older.

And even now I look around and see older couples who have been together a long time where the age difference is quite large.
Even my parents there was 10 yrs between them, and most of my married older relatives the men are around the 80-90 mark and their wives are still in their late 60s/early 70s.

But youngsters these days - say up to 30ish - seem to be in 'same age' couples.
Or is that just what I am seeing, and not seeing the rest?