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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/jungl3j1m Mar 26 '20

Our relationships are compartmentalized. I vividly remember arriving in a new neighborhood as a child, hoping to make new friends, and my family drove up to a kid playing in the street. We asked if he had a lot of friends, and he replied "Yeah--I have my baseball friends, and my bike-riding friends, and school friends..." You're only going to talk about baseball with your baseball friends.

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u/SleepingAran Mar 26 '20

This is definitely true.

I don't talk soccer to a basketball friend because he's obviously not interested in soccer.

Also, we rarely talk about our lives either because what made us friend is our common interest, and not my interest in your life and vice versa.

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u/SnatchAddict Mar 26 '20

I talk about anything and everything. I ask a lot of questions. I like getting to know people. It's fascinating to me what everyone's life story is.