If in your mind everything was perfect and in these girls' mind everything was perfect and yet they still backed out from pursuing the relationship further then you are better off without them because they were dumb.
After all you cannot imporve on perfect. Right?
If they were dumb then they were not that perfect after all so why would you want to be with any of them?
I had no idea she was 48
met her in the gym,thought she was around my age
turns out she ran 5 miles a day and did resistance training
classic "turning back the clock" behavior