But My Boyfriend Is

[jmc_bks]

Review of But My Boyfriend Is has been posted over at WordPress.

In short:  liked it a lot, especially the non-romance relationship with the MC's twin and them dealing with becoming adults and not living in each other's pockets any longer.

TMI:  I find adult twins who went to college together and who work together and live together to be fascinating

Comments

[asimplechord]

You mean you don't find the Bryan bros COMPLETELY NORMAL?

I taught identical twins who roomed together and deliberately took the same lectures/discussions/labs together whenever possible. They were lab partners by choice. I found it odd. Up to that point, I'd never met adult twins who still lived together. And actually, since then most of the twins I've met have lived separately while remaining close. I think I know one set now who lives together, but they don't live in each others pockets in terms of work and social lives, they just share a condo their parents helped them finance after they graduated from different colleges.

[jmc_bks]

I guess I don't understand how they learned to function as individuals if they never spent any time apart. Even if it's just the work day. I've met two sets of twins through work live(d) together and either went to law school together or worked together. When the law school twins got summer offers in different citites there was much angst b/c they'd never lived apart.

[asimplechord]

That's just weird. I love you, but I cannot live with ANYONE and work with them and take classes with them, etc etc etc. I think if we'd gone to the same college and roomed together we might've killed each other.

[jmc_bks]

Unrelated: I looked at condo & coop listings yesterday. Price per square foot for DC real estate would make A scream. So tired of my commute, even a pbj diet to accommodate a larger mortgage isn't so objectionable.

[why_me_why_not]

The few sets of twins I knew growing up couldn't wait to get away from one another, lol. In my adult life, I only know two sets of twins. One of them is a pair of girls I went to school with - they have trailers next door to one another now, but until a couple years ago one of them was in a different state - and the other is yall. So. Idk. I could imagine living with one of my siblings (obvsly) but not working together and doing everything together, twin or not.

[jmc_bks]

I get living close. I'd love to live closer to H but that would take a complete career change or a very fortuitous job offer. It's more the whole staying together that I find odd, especially of they have the same general job? And that's not even a twin thing in some ways: there's a newly engaged couple at work who live together, commute together, share an office, do the same job in the group with only slight differentiation. How? Don't they get sick of each other at some point?

Of course, I've been told that the amount of alone time I need is unreasonable...

[why_me_why_not]

H just needs to come to the East Coast. I keep saying this! lol. But yeah, I know couples like that - they live together, work together, spend their outside-of-work time together, share friends, etc. I don't get it.

[asimplechord]

I would move back if we could both get jobs there. But companies that need chemists who do enhanced oil recovery science are, oddly enough, mostly located in petro and mining hubs. Texas, some in CO and WY, etc.

Actually, Aaron's boss requested my cv and asked if I'd like to work for Dow at the Freeport facility, but if I commuted with Aaron and worked with him all day on top of living together, I predict there would be a divorce or a homicide within a short period of time. I need alone-time.