Going with a throwaway cause some friends know my Reddit account. Me and my brother (15M) both have separate rooms that are connected by a shared bathroom between them. We each have a door that leads into it from our room. This is a pretty common thing in a lot of houses that I’ve seen, but ours has a weird detail.

The bathroom has a big walk-in shower with two shower heads. As in one for each person. Three feet apart, with no dividers or anything. When I think about it I really don’t know who this was designed for. A couple sleeping in separate rooms? I don’t know.

When we first moved in my brother and I (twins) were both 9. We got set up in our separate rooms and took showers at different times of the night. Every once in a while our parents would tell us to take a shower together (since we were young and brothers), just to save time if we had to go somewhere. We both thought it was embarrassing at first, but after a while it felt normal.

However, we kept on taking them together sometimes when we wanted to save time, even after our parents stopped telling us to. This went on for a while until we were 12. We were both really awkward with puberty and everything, but we had also both just gotten on to the same varsity teams, as well as our swim meets. Since we also went to the same school, that meant that we had the exact same schedule now. It also meant we had a lot of packed to be every day and not much time.

So now for the last 3 years my brother and I have taken almost every shower we’ve had together. It’s just become routine and not something I even realize is fuckin weird at this point. Whenever we get back from practice we just go to our bathroom, change in front of each other and shower and talk, like nothings different. On days we don’t have practice we get out of bed and into the showers at the same time. Usually even after a run or workout we’ll do it together. It’s just easier and not something we mind now, so why not. It’s honestly also the only time we talk completely one on one.

I completely get how bizarre the whole deal is. I’ve only told one of my friends, about it (not even the whole thing, just we shower together “sometimes”) and he reacted like it was full on freaky children of the corn weird twin shit. I mean he isn’t wrong.