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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop treating this like a problem.

My brother is 18 months older than my sister.  They are 62 and 60.  My brother is extroverted and has a huge cloud of friends and acquaintances.  My sister is introverted and only has a very few close friends, most of whom don't live near her anymore.  38 years ago, my brother, newly out of college moved halfway across the country for a new job.  He was very happy with his new town.  My sister graduated college a year later and took a job near home that was good.  She didn't really enjoy it much.  After 2 years, she took a new job in my brother's city and moved there.  She's been very happy since.  She has only made one or two close friends in 30 years.  But she still does things with my brother and his friends and his friends have become her friends.    And they are both fine with this dynamic.  \

FYI, I have younger BB Fraternal twins (8) and they have much the same dynamic as yours.  One is more extroverted and makes friends easily.  The other is more introverted and doesn't.  They have been in separate classes for 2 years, but at their school, the entire grade spends recess and lunch together.  So they end up having the same friends because they all play together are recess and lunch.  Then my kids have the same friends in aftercare.  They have different activities.  The extroverted one has taken up skating and has a couple of friends there, but only sees them once/week at skating.  The introverted one has taken up drawing/art and is into drawing comic books.  No real extra friends.  They still have the same set of friends.  I don't happen to think it's a problem and don't treat it like one.  As long as they have their own interests, I'm fine with who their friends are.  I try to build self-reliance in them and have them not rely too much on each other (there's a limit to how much we can influence that), but as for making friends?  Not a concern.[/quote]

How old are YOU?[/quote]

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