I think it's her issue of 'deservingness'. Tell her not to sell herself short. Younger guys are better, as these days, women don't age & men do! So 5 years is nothing! Unless this younger guy's mind is not mature, now that's totally different - you can even meet an old guy and he's not mature! Tell her to reprogram her beliefs and enjoy her own manifestation & have loads of validation!

Sounds like this example shows that she got what she "dreamed" about but on a more conscious level she had other requirements for how this guy should be.

One of those requirements are age.

Here is where relative age might come into play. If she is 21 and he is 16, there are a lot more differences relative to her being 43 and him 38.

Perhaps, the age difference is just so great that it over comes the feeling she was looking for.

I think she is so caught up in the specifics of what she wants, that even though she has come very close to her imagined in physical form, to us it seems like she got it but to her it may not. From the outside it looks really good and maybe she should not throw it away?? Perhaps that is a key for us to remember?

Hi Chris, your friend certainly got what she asked for. So what is her problem? She can build a friendship and then decide if she wants to build a long term relationship. Advise her to proceed at a pace that she feels comfortable with but don't just drop it. She may only want to have a friendship with this man. It also does not mean that the she will never attract another man into her life.