When I was a child, I enjoyed talking with the old ladies sitting on park benches more than playing with my friends. I still played with my friends, though.
The movie, "The Summer of 1942" always resonated with me. I used to always want a relationship with an "older woman."
As a young person, I always got along better with adults.
Now that I'm almost 54, I have become the "older person." I can make friends with anybody--young, old, same age, etc. If I were to get divorced from my wife, I might or might not pick someone older than me.