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As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

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Unfortunately I don't make enough money to be a Sugar Daddy. Would you settle for a Papa Stevia?

The difference between a sugar daddy agreement and an escort date is the same as a long term lease on a car and a daily or weekend rental. The rented car is dropped off at the end of the period on the agreement but the leased vehicle is yours to house, feed, maintain and generally take good care of until the lease expires. 
 
 Some people fall in love with their leased vehicles and buy them at the end of the lease. Others get dumped in better or worse condition. Same with sugar daddy relationships. 

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Well said, and thank you for sharing this. Those words I quoted I found to be your most powerful words.
I personally live and let live. That said, both sides of the coin do exist. Opportunistic young men trying to get older men's money are real, and are out there. Manipulators, hagglers and people who love taking advantage of the elderly do exist, and they are real.
So I don't attack either side, those who are legitimately in love with each other in spite of age (or socioeconomic status), and those who are in it for what they can get. We are all living in the same planet.

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

Bravo! 👏

As a 74 year-old widower, currently dating a 34 year-old, I find this thread to be interesting, with some comments amusing, and some cruelly judgemental ... like this one. Not sure why you view Geffen's decision as "stupid and mentally fucked up." Specifically, I most definitely wonder why you wonder why an 80-year-old would want or need the close emotional/personal connection of marriage. I had been very active on this forum, and in this hobby, in the years since my husband of 30+ years died ... and now cruise the site out of interest and, perhaps, nostalgia, because I haven't hired since I entered this new relationship. I am the kind of person who deeply and fundamentally enjoys close emotional connection (as well as satisfying sex). After becoming overly (and damned foolishly) entangled with a handsome, hot, charming provider, and then extricating myself from that connection, I doubted I would ever find the kind of connection I wanted.  And then -- precisely because I had stopped actively "looking" -- it happened. We met in a professional setting, and have been dating since. I am deeply in love. He says the same and, unless he is worthy of every stage/screen acting award on the planet, is genuinely in love with me.
While I make no judgements (AT ALL) about someone who would get emotionally (and legally) involved with someone described as a "porn star and go-go-boy" the age difference in and of itself shouldn't be an issue ... assuming that both participants are both honest and enter into the relationship with their eyes open. Is my admittedly admirable financial situation (though not even remotely close to billionaire status!!!) a mutually-acknowledged part of the equation? Of course!! I would be foolish indeed (even blind, perhaps) if I did not acknowledge that and take it into consideration. Such things are always part of any relationship -- gay, straight, same-age or May-November -- to a greater or lesser degree. I always earned substantially more than my husband, and I therefore paid for many things we enjoyed together, from real-estate to dining out and global travel.  If the extraordinarily intelligent and hard-working (and, yes, very handsome and sweet, and sexy) young professional I am involved with is willing to share a number of his prime years of life with me, I am more than willing to reciprocate with reasonable intellectual, emotional, and financial support ... including post-mortem asset-sharing, (with an appropriate pre-nup.) This isn't just a sexual fling, although the sex is wonderful.  (I prefer to refer to it as "making love" rather than just hot sex ... although it is hot, on both physical and emotional levels.) Having met in a professional setting, we soon discovered that we have similar interests in international culture, travel, food, and a wide range of intellectual pursuits.
Do I enjoy close and rewarding emotional connections with a reasonable number of friends and family member? Thankfully, yes. Do I have enough self-esteem to be self-sufficient emotionally if I choose to be? Also, thankfully, yes. Do I have some nagging doubts about the $$ issue? Of course I do! I don't consider myself to be blind, naïve, or foolish.  Did I have various doubts about my marriage that lasted for more than three decades until death parted us? You bet! And I've learned that one can either hold out for perfection (whatever that might be) or one can barricade oneself by rejecting every potential relationship with any inequities, or one can, with due diligence and careful thought, allow oneself to enjoy the delights of romantic and physical love -- rather than allowing something like age-difference and society's reaction to that get in the way. With full acknowledgement of the risk it entails, I have chosen the latter. Time will tell whether the decision to engage in this way will play out the way I hope it will.
In the meantime, I am thrilled for the chance to enjoy the delights of love again ... while making absolutely NO judgments whatsoever about people who prefer a series of blazingly hot sexual trysts, whether those involve financial transactions or not. Been there too, and enjoyed it immensely!

Thank you 😊