Urban definition of a cougar
Noun. An older woman (35+) who frequents clubs in order to score with a much younger man. The cougar can be anyone from an overly surgically altered wind tunnel victim, to an absolute sad and bloated old horn-meister, to a real hottie or milf. Cougars are gaining in popularity -- particularly the true hotties -- as young men find not only a sexual high, but many times a chick with her shit together.
The traditional cougar goes hunting for action with a younger man. My girlfriend was telling me about how a teacher of hers from High School was dating this ten year old younger guy from college. She has a seven year old kid, she's divorced, but she seems to really like this dude (and he's cool with the kid also). From what my gf told me they are really into each other.
Now, let's get into the real subject. This age disparity is quite a taboo (though it shouldn't be). I've dated older women and it has been exciting, we both got what we wanted, I wanted experience (and she was hot) and she wanted a young guy. Though in my case it was a sporadical one time (maybe twice) situation. I can see when both are relatively young the whole relationship can be exhilirating. In the case of the cougar she wants to feel young and sexy; by common social standards she should be stable, i.e. married with children and living in a big house with her husband happily ever after. The issue is that sometimes premature happy endings end bad. And I guess that trying to find a guy who's good for her, again, in the same age range can be quite difficult.
I know that the common opinion will be that the college guy is taking advante of his situation. He has time and can still settle in a few years if things don't come out. Do you guys think or have known about these kind of relationships do coming out, working out? Considerably older woman having long term relationships (maybe marrying) with younger dudes?