There seem to be a lot of people with very strongly negative opinions regarding age-gap dating, and a lot of these people seem to primarily have a problem with the difference in experience.

As the title says, I'm a 40-year-old virgin, so if I do find someone with whom I have mutual attraction, there will almost certainly be either an age gap or an experience gap (or both). I don't really see any way around this.

Also, I'd ideally like to have marriage and children, but my Church doesn't recognize divorce, and women my age who've never been married are exceedingly rare. Having a child also gets a lot riskier as a woman gets closer to my age.

I'm not kidding myself. I know there isn't "someone for everyone", and in all likelihood there isn't someone for me. That said, I'm trying really hard to stay hopeful. I know that, if I'm able to find someone I'm compatible with (from an experience and life goals perspective, at least), that person is almost certainly going to be significantly younger than me.

For those of you who feel strongly opposed to age gap relationships, is my case an exception, or should I just give up?