To all of you who said things like ‘whats the big deal with age?’ and ‘people ask me all the time, I don’t have a problem with it’
This is the big deal with our age: That little number can often mean the difference between a date (read: hope, a chance that our situation might change) and sitting at home with no dates.
How do you get around it? Not giving the guy (the potential date) your age? What is he told when he asks how old the proposed girl is?
The reason it is difficult to deal with, is that age- of all the factors taken into account when considering whether to marry someone, has the least meaning when it comes to a persons character and good spouse potential (unless you consider old age a good thing because it comes with life experience).
Surely you agree age is a valid factor in considering a date. Does it not make a difference whether a potential date is 20 or 30?
We all know why a guy asks how old the girl is- he wants to know where her biological clock is up to
I don’t think that is the primary reason (unless, perhaps, if you are specifically referring to shidduchim for “older” girls). More importantly, people generally want a spouse close in age to themselves (with what constitutes being “close in age” differing in opinion between different people).