Suggests women in their forties should know better than to fall quickly for new partners
The framing implies that emotional vulnerability and romantic enthusiasm in midlife women are signs of immaturity and poor judgment, contrasting them with 'grown-up' emotional restraint.
“But it’s one thing carrying on like this in your twenties – Perry was 25 when she met Brand – quite another when you are in your forties, and old enough to know better.”
