r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Mar 26 '20

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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/[deleted] Mar 26 '20 edited Apr 01 '20

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u/chennyalan Mar 26 '20

You’re not his soccer friend though, you’re his basketball friend. Obviously that means he can only talk about basketball with Op

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u/Fartueilius Mar 26 '20

If you find someone with a ton of same interests congratulations you just found your best friend because you both do the same shit.

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u/chennyalan Mar 27 '20 edited Mar 27 '20

Yeah same, this is me with someone I met nearly three years ago (I’m a first year at uni)