Is this friendship weird?

[Lissy23]

I’ve become good friends with a 60 year old man I’m a 33 year old woman.
Is it weird?
We met through work.

We go for coffee regularly and get on well / have a laugh together. I’m just feeling it’s a bit strange due to the age gap.

No, it's not weird. One of my good friends is a 61 year old man and I'm 40. We've been friends for 20 years and he was at my wedding and is really good friends with my husband now too and also my SIL who is 31.

No it's not weird.

He might be interested in a relationship, but that also doesn't have to mean it's weird, I've had a few good friendships where one person was interested in that and the other wasn't, so it remained platonic.

Yes because only one generation at a time can like, say The Beatles. Until the last 60s fan is dead, no one younger can enjoy it. Same for Stephen King books or Spielberg movies. There's a ten year age range of people permitted to like each "thing". As for politics or the wider world, it's a known fact that every person of each generation must be diametrically opposite in thought and belief to their adjacent generations.

I don't think it is odd. I have friends of both sexes and of ages stretching from maybe about 28-70 (I am in my mid-forties). Maybe I am just not as attractive as some posters on here, but I have had many male friends over the years where sex has not been desired on either side!

Enjoy your friendship, OP. It may or may not be a long term friendship, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth enjoying it in the here and now.

Once you're past your mid-20s, age makes little difference. I've got friends 30 years younger than me.

One of the great joys of being 40ish is having friends who are 25 and a friends who are 80, and they are just proper... mates.

Imho if you are getting older and still getting out there and creating new friendships, that's a good sign for all concerned.

I have a similar situation. It is most definitely only just friendships, on both sides. We have similar outlooks and politics and like going out to the same places so I don't think the age gap is relevant really.

If its all appropriate and you are comfortable around each other then why not? I have made friends with an old chap that walks his dog past my house every day. We chat and pass the time of day and I look out for him now, he's at least 30 years older than me. I have never thought it was strange, but we don't go for coffee I suppose.