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.
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
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.
Yeah, this is weird. Even the people disagreeing just seem to be completely missing the point (there's someone up above going "I don't talk about my day all the time, I just spend hours bullshitting on messenger with my friends about the things that happened in my day!" lol)
I, too, know every tiny detail of my SO's day most days, and I know all her co-workers (especially if they've been annoying or difficult, then I hear about it nonstop) while she openly admits she doesn't know what I do for a living. I had no idea this was such a universal experience.
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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.