I am 54F, never married. Not interested. i’ve always had boys and men approach me.
there is a colleague at work and he and I have friendly exchanges when we see each other. when we talk, it makes me feel like a teenager. and I don’t mean that in a romantic way necessarily. what I mean is that when I was a teenager I had lots of friends who were boys and we always got along very well and in fact, now 40 years later, I’m still friends with almost all of them. I just always felt really comfortable with them and they never was anything romantic.
I met this colleague and I have the same feeling. It’s just light and easy and we have this back-and-forth banter that’s kind of feels ever so slightly flirtatious, but in a very respectful manner.
I feel like if anything we could become really good friends and I’d like to get to know him better but I feel like even asking him out for coffee feels like it could be a date, but I would like to get to know him better. should I just kind of go for what I would’ve done with my male friends back when I was a teenager and tell him oh it was so nice to see you the other day you always cheer me up or put a smile on my face? we are both seasonable workers, so I probably won’t see him for a couple of months and I may get another job in the meantime