Why Millennial Women Love Gen Z Men
By Deanna Romano
December 23, 2025
When Sarah Jenkins, 41, told her friends things were getting serious with the 25-year-old she met on Bumble, they blurted out the obvious: “But he’s 16 years younger than you!” As if she hadn’t already done the math.
“I was exhausted from dating men in their 40s who were still too scared to commit, bitter from divorce, or emotionally shut down,” says Sarah. “When I matched with Leo, I thought it would be a fling. But after our first date, it was clear he was different. Not only was he fun and sweet, but he also had all this emotional awareness and lingo I’d spent the last decade learning in therapy. That’s when I realized, Oh, this generation grew up with this stuff.”
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