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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Same. My brother and I are 22 months apart and have little in common. He's an arborist; I'm a corporate lawyer. I like cities; he likes the outdoors. He's non-confrontational; I'm happy to argue. He lives on the west coast; I live on the east coast. We're polite and reasonably friendly, but we both hate talking on the phone and we see each other once a year (pre-COVID). I am not sure what my parents could have done to resolve the fundamental issue, which is that we don't share interests.[/quote]

The thing is, if you love each other, you FIND things you have in common. Maybe you both like playing board games, or watching documentaries, or making sheet pan dinners, or reading books about blah, or making specialty cocktails, or whatever.  I mean, my brother and I both wear the same obscure brand of socks from a tiny company and we'd never discussed it - we were both just sitting together and it was like "Hey, are those Darn Tough?" "Me too!" You need to talk to each other in order to find the commonalities.  [/quote]

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