Can a 19 year old and 32 year old be friends?

[Isisavisloren]

It's somebody I've met through church. I get on well with her and she seems mature for her age, she wants to grab a coffee one day.
I don't know, I think at our current life stages the gap is too high. If she were 30 and me 43 there would be zero issue.
I just think it seems creepy. Maybe I'm overthinking it. What do others think?

Are you new here? I see this repeated on Mumsnet so often I can’t be bothered to challenge it nowadays 😂.

I initially found it quite offensive though as I don’t have great male relatives and I’m single so i really value the brotherly type of relationships I have with male childhood friends,old uni friends and Even a few former colleagues and it is a shame people would even suggest there is some secret sexual chemistry there. But that’s a them problem really! If the wives/partners of the men in question don’t mind - and they don’t - it doesn’t matter what mumsnet thinks.

Yeah some people can relate widely, I used to work with young adults (16-22) and I could talk to them for hours, same with my friends kids of that age. I wouldn’t talk to them exactly the same way but we always have something to say even if it’s just them asking me for advice about stuff or telling me about their uni course etc.