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Is it weird that my boyfriend and his best guy friend want to be “clones” of each other?

They want the same cars, the same style, the same personality, the same opinion, and the same haircut to name a few.

It really pisses me off that my boyfriend wants to change so much about him just so he and his friend could be so much alike. I asked him about it once and he replied, “Because I’ll be funny! We’re pretty much the same person anyway.” Well it won’t be funny for his girlfriend! I replied that he was wrong and that they’re both different people and that he should stay the way he is but he started to get angry with the subject so we dropped it.

I want my boyfriend to stay the way he is but instead he’s gradually turning into his friend’s clone and vice versa. Anything that his friend does is automatically the “coolest” thing to do and he wants to do the same thing! For example, one time I showed my boyfriend a UFC fight thinking he would be interested in it but instead he said he couldn’t care any less. Then a few days later, he comes showing me the same UFC fight babbling about how he watched it with his friend and how awesome it was. He hated wearing hats but now he wants to start getting hats particularly a certain style that reminds me of the hats his friend wears. Any story, any joke, or past memory that he tells while we’re hanging out is about his friend.

Don’t get me wrong, his friend isn’t a freak or anything and I don’t particularly dislike him in any way but this problem involving my boyfriend. I think its cool that he has such a close friend but sometimes I think its going too far.

My boyfriend wasn’t always like this. Only recently and gradually did he and his friend decide to do everything the same way. My boyfriend is planning on getting his hair cut next week to look like his friends. I’m hoping its only a phase or because its summer and they have nothing better to do. I just really hope it gets through his thick skull to stop trying to be a fake because its not funny or amusing in any way to his girlfriend who loves him the way he is now.

Bottom line, whats his problem? Or whats their problem? Or is there any real problem at all? Do I even have the right to be angry?

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Anonymous #
4 months, 3 weeks ago (3 minutes after post)

maybe they just REALLy like each other haha

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rnick offline Verified User (4 months, 3 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Undisclosed Location | 4 months, 3 weeks ago (12 minutes after post)

They’ll get back to what you might consider a “normal” level eventually. They will eventually annoy each other although it surely won’t happen as soon as you’d like it. I’d suggest you just live with it for now. Do they both have very many friends in general?

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Cell offline Verified User (2 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 64 #
Winnipeg, MB, CA | 4 months, 3 weeks ago (1 hour, 50 minutes after post)

Don’t be mad. Probably just a phase. Who cares if he wants to dress like his friend’s twin? It’s usually girls who do that but does it really matter? r u jealous he seems to like his friend more than you? Probably doesn’t. I mean, do you really want him dressing like you, trying to be YOUR clone? :)

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Abba Zabba offline Verified User (5 months, 3 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 9 #
An Unknown Location | 4 months, 3 weeks ago (4 hours, 12 minutes after post)

Lol… that is a little, odd? And childish?

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Anonymous #
4 months, 3 weeks ago (13 hours, 43 minutes after post)

Thanks for the replies.

@Anon: They’re not like that haha

@rnick: They have other friends but they’re the type of people that get annoyed fast with anybody that looks at them the wrong way. I’m guessing they hang out with each other the most because they haven’t annoyed each other yet and theres nobody else they trust the most. But is that an excuse to totally change so they look and act exactly alike?

@Cell: I guess I’m a little jealous that every other thing he tells me involves a story or what not of his friend. And if he ever wanted to be a straight up clone of me I would tell him right out that he should stop trying to be like someone else. But since he’s trying to be exactly like his friend, its a little more sensitive because I don’t want to be the b*tch that makes him pick between his friend or his girlfriend.

Also, we’re the type of people that make fun of fakes and people trying to hard to be like someone else. I try to stay the way I am and my boyfriend even points out and makes fun of actions that I do whenever, for example, I try to change myself to look like that model on TV. But now he’s trying to be like his friend and I don’t know whether he’s aware that he’s changing the way he looks and the way he acts just to be a fake.

Hell, his friend is into cars and now he’s spending all his money to pimp out his so it could be just as good. Its cool that he has a hobby and of course hobbies are taken up when you see other people doing it but when he’s telling me of the new, for example, stereo system he wants to put in he says, “Well *friend’s name* has an insane system and now I want one just like his or even better! It’ll be mad cool!” Can’t he just accept what he has? Maybe its just a guy thing I don’t know but that would be better than him getting something worth a ton of money just because his friend has one.

@Pepsi: And yea, I think its a bit childish the way he’s acting.

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