Am I A Cougar?!?: Breaking the Stigma of Dating Younger Men
Dear God, in this phase of my life I am just grateful for opened and closed doors. I trust you. May anything that is not meant to better me as a person quickly find its way to the wrong path, while I continue to navigate the path you have for me. In Jesus Name. Amen. So I have been talking to this guy who is much younger than me…when I say much I mean more than three years! When I tell you the laughter is everything, it is everything. At work one day I remember someone asking how old he was and instantly I wanted to say an older age. I didn’t, but it made me wonder, why was I ashamed to admit a younger guy caught my attention? At that moment I realized, ya girl’s a cougar! Lawd have mercy! But what is it about the word “cougar” that makes us cringe? Society has glamorized older men dating younger women forever—nobody bats an eye. But when a grown woman, established in her life, chooses to entertain someone a few (or several) years her junior, suddenly she’s a punchline or a predator. L...