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[quote=Anonymous]I talk about mostly the real personal stuff with my really close friends when we have limited time to talk (like phone conversations every other week or something).  But for the few close friends I see regularly (which sadly is none of them at the moment), anything is fair game.  Some of my friends love music as much as I do, so we talk about that.  Parenting is ALWAYS a conversation, no matter how much time we have, but if we have a lot of time, it may be the funnier/sillier parts of parenting or our kids.

Politics I actually find Facebook to be strangely good for, since you can share things you love/hate and comment on them and see where your friends stand.  There are a lot of political posts flying between my FB friends, so if I were to see any of my close friends who post on FB for a rare lunch/dinner, I doubt politics would come up because we can talk about taht stuff online.

Also, depending on what is going on (like, some friends have aging parents they're supporting... some have older/college age kids, while others have babies really young kids... some are going through job transitions) so depending on what's up for them, there will be different trends in topics but that's just about what is happening, not because I only want to talk kids with the ones with older kids or I only want to talk personal stuff with friends who have older parents.

So I guess my sum up answer to your question would be: mostly what we talk about depends on how long we have to talk/how often we see each other.  It just seems a waste of precious time to talk about stuff that isn't deeply personal with a really close friend that I hardly ever see/talk to.  The whole point of really close friends is to be able to talk about stuff you can't/don't talk about on a day to day basis.  We talk about stuff in the news/on t.v. at work, nothing personal about that.  I treasure the in-depth catch-ups with close friends.

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