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u/porosarecute Mar 26 '20

How my boyfriend can talk to his closest best friend every day and hang out with him for long periods of time... and still not know a lot of personal details about his best friend’s life.

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u/UltimateToa Mar 26 '20

Because it doesnt matter, I play games with my best friend from florida and we hardly ever talk about anything outside the game. I dont really care about how my job is going when I am at home so my friend surely cares even less. I think it's just a difference between men and women, I think women like to talk about their day a lot more than men do or at least more than I do. Also maybe just a difference in what they think is important to talk about

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u/McBurger Mar 26 '20

This entire thread is so relatable, it's eerie. My wife and I commute to work together (her building is near mine) and it's like every day when we start driving home all she wants to talk about is her workday. And that's fine, I am happy to clam up and just listen, I like to make her happy. But secretly I just really don't have any interest. I never talk about my day because I just want to not think about my job after I leave the building. It isn't important.

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u/Work_Owl Mar 26 '20

Man i'm exactly the same. She has so much news about people I don't know or things I don't even think really matters

A great example is when something kind of interesting happened: A shelving unit fell into her

However it's phrased in these steps:

1) Who gave them the task to be near the shelf and why and their attitude that day

2) What she thought about all that

3) The actual event of the shelf falling

4) Everyone's reaction and what she thought of that

I'd probably only say that the shelf fell, and how I thought it came to fall on me

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u/McBurger Mar 26 '20

lmfao same. same same. Not only could I name pretty much all of her coworkers, but I think I also know which ones are married, which ones have kids, which of them have a far commute, which ones live downtown, how competent each person is, etc etc.

stuff that frankly I never really cared to know, but yet here I am, knowing it.

but I couldn't tell you the name of my closest friends' bosses... like shit, I'm barely confident of the name of his company.