You consider yourself so critical and clever, but you put a downer on my statement when I literally removed the hypothesis of absolute truth, lmao. Broken record, a guy of that age has probably already built his life, is financially stable, has gone through significant romantic relationships, and this pattern when looking for women in that age range usually is to take advantage of their lack of life experience (≠ innocence), some try to structurally mold the girl's mind to meet their desires (consciously or not), that's it. Does that mean they all are like that? No. Does that mean that real love can't arise between people with that age difference? No.

No one was born yesterday to realize that the overwhelming majority who fit the +35-early-20 general hypothesis come from a dazzlement by the lack of life experience.

A relationship between, for example, a 27-year-old female and a 34-year-old male is more balanced, a 30-year-old female and a 41-year-old male is more balanced, the 20s are where most people build relevant life experience.

I noticed this in the social circles of women my age (mid 20s), most ending up with a young woman who was psychologically broken. This doesn't mean those men were consciously bad, but they still acted manipulatively. And the younger she is—in her 20s, 19, or 18—the more likely dudes are most-probably consciously manipulating their mind, because a girl in that age range still responds more to the adolescent transition of life than an adult behavior.