Even though Temperance Brennan thought that Sweets' profession was based on unreliable information at best, she admired that someone so young could have risen so quickly in his field. Sweets was one of the few people that Brennan could talk to without being misunderstood because of a vast intellectual gap. Despite the fact that Sweets was more than a little socially awkward and had trouble being taken seriously because of his age and his baby face, Sweets had been instrumental in solving some cases with her, and over the years, the two had become friends, maybe even more. People rarely noticed the similarities between Sweets and Brennan, even after getting to know them. They had both come from foster homes and been raised in the foster system, they were both socially awkward, Brennan was intellectually leaps and bounds ahead of most people and it made them resent her when she didn't try to hide this fact, and everybody doubted Sweet's competence as a psychologist because of his age, and once they realized his talent, people became wary of the young man who could psychoanalyze them perfectly and know things about them that they didn't even know about themselves. In some ways Sweets and Brennan were a perfect match, both at the top of their field, and both completely unaware that they were in love with each other.