While dating, you talk for 50 minutes out of the dinner hour. Married 50 years, you spend 3 minutes talking out of the dinner hour. How many words you spend sharing with your spouse?
A recent study found:
- While dating, couples converse for 50 minutes out of a 60 minute hour. The couple only spends 10 minutes actually eating. No wonder a meal during a date takes so long.
- Immediately after marriage, the time spent talking begins to shrink dropping to 40 minutes per hour.
- After twenty years into marriage, the average time spent talking drops to 21 minutes out of the hour
- Thirty years of marriage, the couple spends only 16 minutes talking.
- The fifty year of marriage mark sees, the average couple talking for only 3 minutes during meal hour.
If you figure three minutes is about 75 to 100 words … imagine the conversation.
I’m going to have the fish no sauce please, with salad, no dressing and sweet tea.
I’m going to have the pasta with chicken, salad with Italian dressing, and water.
Do you want some bread, I’ll cut it for you.
Yes, just one piece and can you please pass the butter.
Ups, you have just used up 50% of you allotted words.
Now this may sound funny but the fastest growing age segment for divorce is over 45. There is even a term for it … the gray divorce.
How making this resolution. Start working now at building a conversation pattern that takes up more than half of your meal time. Put down the newspaper. Turn off the TV. Set at the table looking at each other and talk.
Have a great conversation today.
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