Just curious, why would guys want to marry an older woman?
I have nothing against anything just curious.
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Just wondering if mentioning curious twice makes you bi-curious 
Well most of the people I think would marry the older ladies due to their maturity and proven wisdom. Much better than raising a teenage mentality bride ofcourse.
Not to forget Holy Prophet married Hazrat Khadeeja, much older than him, due to her known intelligence and great reputation
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^If that is the case then Holy Prophet SAW married Hazrat Ayesha RA too & she was way younger than him.
Don’t you think that older lady would be doing this too if she marries a guy younger than her?
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Yes he married Hazrat Ayesha and others too but that doesnt take back the logical reasoning behind marrying Hazrat Khadija. Ofcourse if had to marry he couldnt marry the older ones only in his life otherwise right now entire ummah will be only waiting for the women to get old before marrying them
Yes, thats true in either case. I think many decades ago our ancestors used to hv such weddings with teenage wives and older husbands but due to an epic discipline and patience they used to hv much better life. Dont see it happening anymore right now.
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Cause they find them attractive in some shape or form?
It’s not that hard to believe, is it?
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Well you should have read what Islam has to say in that regard first.
I read and it’s pretty authentic but unfortunately I don’t remember the source.
In Islam there’s no compulsion in marrying a woman or a man of any age they’ve to be adult is the only criteria. Furthermore it’s preferred to marry a younger woman and it has been said something like “So she could play with you and you could play with her”.
Which means younger women have more life in them, which is a really beautiful feature in a woman. Would you want a dull life partner? Who’s seen enough and so tired of life and it’s tensions and responsibilities or you’d rather prefer someone who’d make you forget all the mess in this world and make you happy and fly when you’re with her.
You wouldn’t disagree the younger you were the happier you were. Same applies here.
And I don’t agree with you on the trend guys preferring to marry an older woman. Guys still prefer to marry a younger woman even woman want to have the man to be older than them.
But in the cases where you see the age difference there can be numerous reasons behind that.
They fell in love.
The age difference didn’t matter to that person at all.
The purpose of marriage had another purpose along with it.
They were married in an arranged way and families didn’t mind.
They found themselves compatible and didn’t care of the age afterwards.
The man married an older woman because of her God consciousness, richness, wisdom or any other thing like that and vice versa.
There could be many other reasons. But I believe in a normal scenario a guy wouldn’t be willing to marry a woman older than his own age. Though if we look at the life of Holy Prophet (PBUH), he married Hazrat Khadeeja and there was a huge age difference. His this act makes marrying an older woman a Sunnah for all of us Muslims. But he also married women younger than him which also becomes Sunnah.
So it doesn’t really matter if you see it from Islamic point of view. Virtue and compatibility are the most important things I believe and as far as myself is concerned I wouldn’t mind marrying an older woman if she’s someone I always wanted.
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wife is older because hubby is younger.
IF hubby was older then old wife, she would still young.
you know..
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See my post in’Younger husband](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/relationships/654644-younger-husband.html#post10276741)’
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Interesting to see the references to the prophet’s PBUH life.
So it can be concluded from his life that he did not set any hard and fast rules for marriages between adults. As long as both are mentally compatible, like one another & there are no icky factors or other any other other concerns, age should not be the deciding factor.
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Yes definitely heard it before from desis.. But again, that depends who are you surveying. Lots of desis luv older women for their lookings, but lots due to their maturity and sanity level
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I guy would marry an older woman, if she was fit and level headed… or if he needed the visa… or cos his parents said that he has to marry his aunt cos of some parampara bull****
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Sanity level 
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Shame on you for trying to use religion to back up views that are not only false, and narrow but stupid as well.
Happiness, being a good life partner, those aren’t exclusive to age.
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wtf is parampara?
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sanskriti
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I agree and I wasn’t trying to narrow anything down. Please read again!
I meant generally speaking I know women and how they loose their charm as they get older even men. So what you trying to say exactly?
How many 30 plus women you know in your life who are as charming as women younger than 30 years? And we’re talking about masses not just couple of your friends or people you know who are lost in life.
So please don’t come to me and tell me I’m using religion to back up anything which I didn’t do and when you can’t understand scope of the words being spoken.
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Well as a young man, I am attracted to women in their mid-to-late twenties but I don’t see myself marrying one cause of cultural reasons and i think most elder women don’t take men in their early 20s seriously.
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to me age is one of those arbitrary things with over implied meanings. Its meaningless. Mind and Body is what attracts me, not a calendar date
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Well said!
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Well..thank you… 