A 17-year age gap is new to you.
Which has led you to questioning whether it is too big of an age gap.
The truth is that you are worried about what this would feel and look like to you and to the world at large.
Dating a guy who is 35 as an 18-year-old woman is bound to raise a ton of eyebrows.
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A guy in his 30s is likely going to date a woman in her late 20s to early to mid 30s.
These are women who are usually within 1 to 3 years of his own age.
Ergo, if you are a woman in her 30s who is looking to date a man in his 30s, you have a very statistically high chance of accomplishing this.
Granted, it is understandable that you worry about whether he would have an issue with how hard of a time it might be for you to get pregnant as a woman in her 30s.
The guys who are older than you have a knowledge, maturity, financial wherewithal, and an understanding of women, thanks to their dating experience, that the guys your own age mostly don’t have.
As a woman, you are biologically predisposed to want to date someone who has a lot to offer.
So far, an older guy has had much more to offer you in dating than guys your own age.
All of this makes you feel physically, emotionally, and financially safe, which are all necessary for you to be wholly attracted to a guy.
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Amongst your peers, there is a familiarity that can sometimes feel too predictable.
Activities you do with them are expected and commonplace.
All of this is serviceable but remains predictable and deficient.
In your dating experience with younger men in your peer group, this predictability and deficiency is what you have become accustomed to.
The spaces you put yourself in are filled with younger men.
Even though you are in your thirties, you continue to put yourself in the same spaces you did when you were in your twenties.
Are you religiously going to nightclubs to socialize just as you did when you were in your twenties?
Nightclubs are havens for younger men who are often in their twenties.