That all depends on how youthful, energetic, and capable you are. There are much older folks that can run rings around 20-60 yr olds, and 20-60 yr olds that can barely get out of bed, or walk a mile without fizzling out. And then there's the intimate physical thing - some stop way early, for all kinds of reasons, and others keep at it right up to their demise !

Be honest with yourself about where you are, and try and match up with another - regardless of the numbers. It's all a crap shoot anyway.

Toolguy, I, too, am in your situation. I believe love comes from the heart. You get out what you put in no matter your age. If age matters to you then don’t put yourself in that age group. Keep inside your comfort zone. My happiness matters to me, not my age.

That's something that really is up to the individual, but I can tell you what seems to be common on the paid dating sites. I'm 12 years younger than you, so I only am aware of the age ranges being used on those sites by men my age, which in most cases in something like 12-15 years younger and 3-5 years older. This sort of younger partner chasing trend understandibly and justifiably upsets most women who would like to date someone their age, but a lot of women my age seem to have responded by going the same route. On this site, Agnostic, it appears that most people do not openly state an age range in their profiles, but I do in mine. I am open to dating as young as 11 years younger than me and 8 years older. The bottom of my age range is not really very meaningful because few women that young would want someone my age, but I include it because I am open to someone that young and younger women, at least in my observation, seem more likely than women older than me or my same age to be fellow hipsters in their entertainment and music tastes. which are important to me. At least that's what I see in my local area.

When it comes to women older than me, I am getting to the age that I worry about being widowed again sometime in the next decade if I date someone who is more than 8 years older than me. Once has already been hard enough for me. But if someone was a little older than that and in great health as well as being compatible, I might take the risk. In fifteen months on Match, I have only met women who are in their early to mid-60s, all older than me, which tells me the younger women, for all practical purposes, are a lost cause for me. Maybe not so much for your age, I dunno.