I can commiserate as someone who has always had a strict 6 year limit (going in both directions) on the age of any potential interest. That means, as someone about to turn 30 next year, my cut-off for older interests is 35 (I'll bend this rule if like, the person is only a year or two older than the upper limit - but they have to be either really interesting as a person or really attractive. It's only happened once). If you're younger than 23, I don't care if you're literally sculpted by the gods or the only person on this entire earth who could ever fully understand me as a person - don't even look at me.