Ive considered an older woman but they usually come with mental issues, another mans kids, run through and not agreeable. much less wear and tear on the younger models.
It gets harder the older you get unless you are Leonardo DeCrapio or someone similar.
If a woman is say over 40 and single there is probably a very good reason why she was never wifed up and it's highly unlikely because she devoted her life to Doctors without Borders.
If she is divorced, people don't learn from their past mistakes usually it's always the other persons fault, also if times get rough she pulled the plug once, it's easier to do it a second time.
I've multiple times been punished for the misdeeds of some abusive asshole, it gets old pretty much right away.
Single mothers, sorry, I don't want kids of my own, never mind someone elses, and even if I did want kids, it's pretty sad to pay the bills for another dude's kids.
Also older yeah more set in their ways.
Also if you speak to a random 20 year old, odds are more likely she will be either single or not seriously attached.
In her 40s she is much more likely to be married or based on what I said above even worse.
Never mind that most women don't age well, sure most dudes don't age well but no homo so not my circus, not my monkeys. I remember I did a search for 40 something on POF about 5 to 10 years ago and it was depressing as fuck, there were no Marisa Tormeis there, they were all old and gross. Homosexuality starts looking good beyond a certain point. I ended up finding some exceptions and among the orientals at least of he east asian sort it's much better but still. When I was on, every girl who messaged me [and I got a few] looked either 20 years older than her stated age, heavier than my 6'2 fat ass and or looked mannish. Also their profiles and messages were often lazy [hey, well tell later] and border line illiterate. It's one thing to get lazy when posting on some forum with a bunch of dudes but when I craft a letter on a dating site I take extra care to put my best foot forward. It's a bad sign when a message doesn't contain a single capital letter or any punctuation. I am far from a grammar nazi but again, best foot forward this isn't.