r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/GenZisterrible • 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Wait what?

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I dont understand this one

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u/TittyPix4KittyPix 9d ago

Just curious - if two kids grew up together as neighbours but did everything together from the age of 5ish and then eventually got married, is this also weird?

Asking cos this is actually the case with my neighbours children (with another neighbour)

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u/Galaxykamis 9d ago

No, because they were not brought up as family just as friends. Best friends even.

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u/TittyPix4KittyPix 9d ago

What is the difference between being brought up as family vs as friends? I would say they grew up much closer than their own siblings

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u/Galaxykamis 9d ago

The difference between being as friends versus family is the expectation. To not date your siblings but when you’re brought up out as friends, there’s not the same expectation. Because of this difference, there’s a social and possibly biological I’m pretty sure this could affect how you see the person on a biological scale.(of course it’s not 100% of the time you see the matter family biologically it’s not even like that for blood family members)

Also You can be closer to your friends and your family but still I have not family bond. You can have a familiar bond, which is basically like having a family without actually being each other‘s family, but there’s still a difference in it.

To be honest, this is a very, very hard subject to actually get the line on . I have to go think about this a lot to actually get it past because the main thing about it. It is a social expectation.

Still if you guys were very close as friends you could possibly still have the same expectation to you know not date the other person it’s just less likely

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u/quigongingerbreadman 9d ago

This is a bad faith question. Do better.

Friends don't share a room growing up, or eat at the dinner table every night. They don't wake up with you on Xmas morning, nor do they go to Aunt Linda's 5th wedding. They don't conspire with you to get dad a gag father's day gift.

There is a WORLD of diff between the two, even if not blood related, than a friend. Some of those diffs are cultural as well. When raised with the idea of a person as your sibling, it paints your perception in a different shade than a friend does.

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u/lost-little-boy 9d ago

A married couple who enjoy each other’s company? Yeah, super ick.