How much do you and your dh/dp talk per day? More or less than...

[emkana]

8 minutes a day?
I remember hearing something on the radio when I was much younger that the average couple talks to each other for 8 mins a day. Was horrified at the time, but now not quite so horrified...
Tbh I would talk more if dh wasn't such a caveman who is happiest spending the evening staring into the fire/TV screen...

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We exchange words but I wouldn't necessarily describe it as talking! Not like BC when we were actually interested in what each other was saying and had time to listen... Now we're ships that pass in the night or only half listening IYSWIM

well... REAL talking probably around 10 mins on a good day...... barking orders (me) and low level moaning (dh) about another 10.... coordinating diaries / activities about another 3.... active bickering varies from day to day

Very rarely do we have a proper conversation.

He seems quite happy to park his arse in front of the tv for most nights.

I get fed up watching him that i sometimes cannot be bothered to talk.

Most of my time is taken up with the children.

we talk when we go to bed - really nice part of the day. and we swap quite a few emails - imo email's a really good way of communicating! on good days we make each other laugh, on bad days we "listen" to the other one whinging about work and then make the other laugh by being rude about each their colleagues and if we've has an argument we resolve it in veyr considered fasion without getting more annoyed with each other

a few hours!

I've never timed it.

But neither of us is a big 'talker'.

Some people just aren't.

My ex bf, a Californian, used to talk shit to death and overanalyse everything.

He drove me spare.

He even wanted to talk whilst shagging.

Finally I snapped, 'I can't cum w/you yapping at me!'

lol expat! agree with you about that!

Never timed it but we do talk a lot. We email throughout the day and when he gets home from work we spend the evenings together once the kids are in bed so we do talk a lot.

Loads more than 8 minutes. Not much in the morning as there's no time but we talk at lunchtime and I've just made his number my magic number with Orange, which means calls to his mobile from mine are free.

lot more than 8mins even when he is away we can be on the phone for over an hour.

more than 8 minutes a day

Much less nowadays, I made the point of turning the TV off last night and it was nice to chat about things we wouldn't usually have time to talk about!

It's bloody difficult to hold a converstation while the dds are snapping at our feet.

we prob talk about 20min in a day as dp calls from work, then if he is lucky to be homes at tea time(which is very rare at the moment) we have the rest of the eveing to chat away while kids are in bed

much more - dh goes on and on about what he's done at work (high-level programming that goes totally over my head, it's an effort to stop my eyes from glazing over...but I love him ). We also engage in actual conversations - so probably a couple of hours?

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We talk several times on the phone, swap a few emails, but have very little face to face conversations simply due to his ridiculous working hours.

I reckon about half an hour to an hour a day

I've not really thought about it...not much before he goes to work. A couple of hours on weekdays maybe? Loads more on the weekend.

Hmmm let me see, dont see him in the morn as he leaves for work at 5am, see him in the evening (at about 8pm) for about 6 mins before he goes upstairs to settle ds to sleep...this takes about an hour... then dh falls asleep next to ds...then i fall asleep at 9.30...
and dh works 7 days a wk at the moment.

Much more than 8 minutes.

Probably 10 mins in the morning.
Couple of phonecalls in the day - maybe another 5-10 mins
A good couple of hours at night - if I'm not working.

Definitely more than 8 minutes a day!

I see him every morning for about 45-60 minutes, although we are both busy getting ready for work/DD ready for school, etc. We do chat a bit int hat time though.

Speak to him on phone for 5 minutes onmce a day probably.

Then he gets home around 6:30pm and we go to bed around 10:30 (on non weekend days). Although we are often doing on thing, it is in same room and we talk during that time.

I guess if we added it up, and included just "proper conversation" rather than just the "do you want a cup of tea?" etc, then probably about two-three hours per day. But we are both at home all day at the mo.