The Average 29-Year-Old

In terms of May-December romances, there’s been a longtime double standard when it comes to which half of the couple is “December”: Women who date younger men encounter fascinated curiosity, judgment, and even a loaded nickname that rose to prominence in the early ‘s, while men in relationships with younger women are simply known as If you’ve ever felt a spark with a guy eight or more years your junior but hesitated to give things a try, you might have told yourself it’ll never work.

Or at least it doesn’t have to be. Yes, the dynamic brings a unique set of challenges—but it can also be pretty great, whether the goal a fling or a long-term relationship. Here’s some expert-sourced advice for a woman dating a younger man. Consider French president Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte, his wife of 12 years, who is 25 years older than her husband.

A middle-aged man dating a much younger woman has long been He is like a old man for 26 and I am not typical of my age 51 this year. I am in a relationship with a man 22 years my senior, and I couldn’t be happier. I have been happily married for nearly 29 years to a man, 15 years old than me.

This is a hard question to answer, no matter who is asking. An irony of digital media is that the Internet distributes journalism, but it concentrates journalists. The clustering force is only getting more centripetal: The share of reporting jobs in Los Angeles, NYC, and DC increased by 60 percent between and For that, one needs something else, like a national survey.

So, how useful that the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently published a report on the demographics of year-olds in the U. As a year-old reporting on the economy from New York, it was a particularly good orientation for me. The impression of young people in the U. Instead, the average year-old did not graduate from a four-year university, but she did start college; held several jobs, including more than two in the last three years; is not as likely to be married as her parents at this age, but is still likely to be living with somebody; is less likely to own a home than 15 years ago, but despite the story of urban renewal, is more likely to live outside of a dense urban area like Brooklyn or Washington, D.

Here are several more details from the BLS report and some similar surveys about year-olds:. The average year-old has not graduated from college.