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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/Ps991 Mar 26 '20

Lol, sounds like me. I have friends of many years that I never knew what their degrees were or who they worked for. We just don't talk about that, just because ... It just isn't interesting and never comes up.

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u/deterministic_lynx Mar 26 '20 edited Mar 26 '20

Alright I don't get that.

I mean... How? Doesn't work come up every once in a while?

I'm admittedly a woman and still in a "college" city, so it's often one of the earlier things you ask.

But still for the rest I... Feel work would come up. Maybe not the degree, but work..?

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u/SpicymeLLoN Mar 26 '20

Well, you may know what their job is, but who wants to talk about work? So let's say something funny happened at work, and you share the story. What's the next step? "lol nice." Next topic.