It has come to my attention over the course of the last year that more people are getting divorced. Having been witness to many of the a destructive relationships I am not really surprised by this at all. Young people fall in love get married and realize it is a mistake shortly thereafter and get divorced. Hopefully no children are involved, some money exchanges hands and we all part as friends. Or mortal enemies. Whatever the case may be. Those are not the situations I am referring to.

What I am observing is the twenty and thirty year marriages dissolving as the children leave home and the partners realize they cannot stand each other. This seems to be a new thing to me, as for the most part my parents did all the fighting when they were younger, and the family stresses were greater. In recent weeks I have been witness to three marriages of over 20 years that have dissolved when the partners decided they hated each other. It seemed odd to me after investing such time and effort that they would split and once again be thrust into the dating pool.

Odd was not the word when I noticed the new girlfriends all three men had within mere weeks following the split. Men old enough to be my father all dating girls young enough to be their daughters. Hot daughters at that. To my shock and awe these guys had picked up girls and had established physical relationships with them over the course of three weeks. Say what you want, but that was fast work.

I know I am being naïve in that they probably had these girls in the stable before, but my question was this: What could they possibly see in these guys? Men over the age of forty with girls under the age of 25? What is the attraction for these girls to these guys? I have enough trouble trying to relate to my parents. They are sometimes simply out of touch with the times. I cannot imagine the interactions between these young women and old men. Ladies? Help me out here. What does an old divorced man have that you cannot get with a younger guy?