What is the span on the age gap between you and your friends? My best two friends are 20+ years my senior. I have a a few friends who are 10 years my junior, so a range from mid sixities to mid thirties. I know a lady who wants to be a friend but she is only 27, I am fond of her but I look on her as a daughter not really as a friend. I wondered about myself in why I could not relate to this younger woman and questioned my older friends since their age difference between them and me is even greater than the 27 year old and myself. I asked them, the older friends, why didn't they look at me as a daughter versus a friend. They said it is because when they met me we were peers. I would say 90% of my friends are from work, the older friends and I had the same jobs when we met and in many cases I had to train them. So the 27 year old who wants to be friends, while I do know her from work but she was not my peer.
I am 36. My oldest friend is probably in his 70s. We are not especially close but he is a friend. I am not sure about the age of my youngest friend-maybe mid to late twenties. If I socialized more and met more people I could see being friends with someone younger than that perhaps. I haven't really been very social the past few years though so anyone younger than mid twenties would have been too young when I was still meeting people and making new friends.
Since I haven't spent time around very young people recently I don't really know how it would be.
Most of my friends, especially very close friends, are my age or very close to it since we met at school or places like that.
I don't have a wide range of friends. I never have. I've always had one or two close friends. For awhile in my 20s I hung with a small group but was only close to one of them - we were all within two years of each other.
At this point in my life one of my closest friends is two years older than me - we met at work (where I am now, but she doesn't work here any more).
Another close friend is five & half years younger than me - we met on MM1.
And the person I've been friends with the longest is also five and a half years younger than me - we also met at work (not where I am now). Our contact these days is mostly through the occasional card and facebook.
My best friend is DH and he's 9 years older than me.
-- Edited by FRAED on Wednesday 5th of December 2012 11:58:19 AM
I think it is easy to share interests with older and younger people. Sometimes there is just a difference in perspective or experience. Of course that can be true with someone your own age too. It's probably more a question of outlook or attitude than age.
