[iamnottheenemy]

It sounds like Tarek El Moussa from HGTV's Flip or Flop is in early MLC at age 35. Following two cancer diagnoses last year, there was an alleged suicide attempt followed by dating the 23-year-old family nanny. El Moussa is making the morning talk show rounds after filing for divorce.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4043888/Flip-Flop-star-Tarek-El-Moussa-35-dated-children-s-NANNY-23-split-wife-Christina.html

http://people.com/celebrity/flip-or-flop-tarek-el-moussa-opens-up-about-divorce-from-christina-gun-incident/

[Trustandlove]

And now Jeremy Paxman...  goodness.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2922107/jeremy-paxman-has-acted-like-many-men-told-a-loyal-wife-to-get-stuffed/

And the comparison to Andrew Marr, another respected broadcaster, who chose a different route....

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lessons-pompous-jeremy-paxman-could-9863616

[Kintsugi]

My mother just told me how Mick Jaggar 73, had a baby with OW 29.  What is wrong with these men and more so with these young girls?

I would say it could be daddy issues but that one might be one with grandpa issues!

[Thunder]

I've always wondered that, Belle.  When you look at a very young girl with an old man you have to wonder about her.  I mean I get that they may provide them with money or stability..or adoration, but what do they have on common?  I sure don't get it.

I just watched a special on Anna Nicole.  She married the old billionaire.  Now he showered her with riches and was very good to her and her son...but come on, the man was in a wheel chair.  There couldn't have been any intimate relations, could there?

Well to each his own I guess.  Maybe they just gave each other what they needed.  She got to live like a princess and got to look at his gorgeous W every day.  Trade off.

[Kintsugi]

I've always wondered that, Belle.  When you look at a very young girl with an old man you have to wonder about her.  I mean I get that they may provide them with money or stability..or adoration, but what do they have on common?  I sure don't get it.

I just watched a special on Anna Nicole.  She married the old billionaire.  Now he showered her with riches and was very good to her and her son...but come on, the man was in a wheel chair.  There couldn't have been any intimate relations, could there?

Well to each his own I guess.  Maybe they just gave each other what they needed.  She got to live like a princess and got to look at his gorgeous W every day.  Trade off.

I read somewhere that sometimes the younger women go for the older men because the men their own age do not appeal to them for many reasons including immaturity.  I work with someone who was probably in MLC, left his wife for a much younger coworker, and most people do not like the new wife because they feel she is a homewrecker.  I think it is amusing to see them together because of the age difference.  I often wonder if he regrets his decision. 

[Thunder]

Who knows, Belle.  If he's in a crisis he just may end up regretting it.

My H was 17 years younger than me.  It's rare but sometimes age really is just a number.  He didn't relate with women his age and I always had more in common with men younger than me, so it worked.  I'm sure their were people who didn't understand it, but it never bothered either of us.  I understood we were not the norm.

[Trustandlove]

But Mick Jagger was never an MLCer....  just a serial philanderer....   

[Anjae]

I never expected the Sun and the Mirror to be so spot on midlife crisis/affairs. And they don't go soft on it.

"---has joined the ever-swelling ranks of that depressingly pedestrian cliché . . . the middle-aged man who dumps the woman who has given him the best years of her life for a younger model happy to give him the best years of her thighs."

"No longer enjoying the thrill of subterfuge, the relationship can now be conducted in the open and move towards the inevitable next phase of occasional mundanity, familiarity and, uh oh, Jeremy actually being himself rather than the sanitised version we all present in the early days of a liaison."

"For someone who prides himself on his towering intellect, Paxman has fallen for the simplest and most idiotic of ideas – that the grass is greener elsewhere."

"Although, in reality, middle-aged adultery has less to do with how the other woman looks and more to do with how she looks at him."

  Tabloids being accurate about middle age men and their midlife affairs. 

But Mick Jagger was never an MLCer....  just a serial philanderer....   

This. And he likes young women. And young women don't seem to mind him.

In fact, young/younger women don't seem to mind an older man if he has money. If the older man is poor, young women do not seem to have any interest in him.

[kikki]

I am liking that brutally honest and accurate media coverage.  About time.

[Trustandlove]

Yes, I completely agree.  And I, too, was surprised to see this in what, frankly, is usually the gutter press. 

It crossed my mind that this will reach a whole different segment of society than what I usually read does, which can only be a good thing!