2025-03-30 – News – www.theguardian.com
Words of love are great – but without behaviour to follow them up they are meaningless
The dilemma Six months ago I met a man I used to work with when I was young and he was middle-aged. Now I’m middle-aged and he is old. We established an incredible sexual and romantic connection. This was so powerful and beautiful. He told me I make him feel so free and so accepted and loved. He told me he loved me and wanted to be with me, for us to belong to each other. Incidentally, most of my previous relationships have been with men who are much older than me, but it’s not the issue.
My older gentleman gets incredibly close, is loving, gentle and open, then a few days later, I get a call from him saying he can’t cope with the age difference, he is conflicted about his feelings and wants to be on his own. He tells me to meet someone my own age, but when I try to move on, he gets back in touch. Over time, he will connect with me intensely in person, only to reject me by text or phone.
