I've always identified with Ron Swanson in that way. Though it's less about not caring, we can actually care, we just don't say it, then may or may not regret that 15 years later at their funeral.

"The less I know about other people’s affairs, the happier I am. I’m not interested in caring about people. I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes."

I am being facetious, but this isn't far from true. True human connection between men is very informal. It's mostly about being around each other

Life is an eternal battle between "I won't pry, he'll tell me if he wants" and "I won't bother him, he'll ask me if he wants to know".

Some friendships just work in different ways.Some talk at length about the problem, others talk around the problem. Mostly it a mix of both. As long as everyone involved feels connected the words used don’t matter

I am now convinced that Boromir is the equivalent of a redneck in the group. Sure, he might be almost-royalty and he might have grown up in one of the largest cities, but mentally, he is driving a rusty truck, wearing a plaid shirt and drinking bud light while listening to old country. He thinks elves are suspiciously androgynous, and probably woke tree huggers, but he's trying his best to not be a dick about it, because he doesn't want to be "that guy" in front of what are essentially foreign diplomats. Also, between all the gay elves, completely unhinged hobbits and self-righteous so-called wizards, someone has to be the common sense of the group, and it sure as hell won't be that hippie dropout that spends his days banging some local elf king's daughter and stumbling through the forests, yet somehow claims to be the long lost king or some bullshit like that.