For several years now, we have been seeing more and more older women looking for younger men.And.This term "Cougar".Is it actually a fitting label to put on an older woman dating men half her age?According to one urban legend, there's also the "half-your-age-plus-seven rule," a mathematical formula for determining when a May-December pairing of either gender is considered to be within social norms.O, just what is the definition of a cougar?It's a woman, typically 35 or older, who is in a relationship with a man who is younger than her by eight to ten years or more.We can hardly call it a stigma."Cougars" - what dismissive words our society has found to describe older women who find themselves in romantic relationships with younger men.While the ideal example of an older man with a younger woman on his arm has been a constant in Western society, there has always been a double standard in the way we view the reverse gender pairing of older woman/younger man.A whopping 34 percent of women over 40 are dating younger men, according to a 2003 survey.The same poll, which surveyed 3,500 single people (both women and men) aged 40 to 69 years old, found that 56 percent are currently separated or divorced from a spouse, 31 percent have never been married, and seven in 10 (74 percent) of formerly married singles in their 50s have been single for five years or more.
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