I think the harder thing about meeting potentials as you get older is pure volume, contact, or proximity. You just don't have occasions to meet the number of women that is required to meet both your standards, and compatibility. You'd think modern women would just listen to men when they tell them, yeah, I'm pretty much only interested in 20 year old women (in their 20s), instead of just getting mad. It's like they can't take a hint that a guy just isn't going to be excited about an older, jaded woman - why would he be? I guess asking them to all recognize that would just make them depressed, so the cluelessness is more of a coping mechanism than anything. It's just funny when you meet these 35-45 year old women who aren't ugly, but they aren't in the greatest shape, because quite frankly they aren't young anymore. They need to be looking at guys who are 55-65 but the thing is, they think a guy in his 40s is going to care about them. It's weird, because all you have to do is just ask yourself, would a successful 40 year old man be interested in a 35 year old woman? Obviously no. That doesn't take a lot of thinking.