This may not be news to husbands and men but.....
Women Say Nearly Three Times as Many Words Per Day......
Science is now confirming something that generations of husbands and wives have already known- women tend to do most of the talking. A study by the University 
of Maryland's College of Medicine found that on average, women speak about 20,000 words per day. Compare that to the average man, who speaks only 7,000 words per day.
The nearly 3:1 ratiomay sound suprisingly high,but Lois Finkelstein, a family lawyer in Chevy Chase, says "women are talking to each other, and they might be talking to their spouse,and the spouse isn't listening".
In her law practice, Finkelstein notices that her female clients are more willing to talk about their feelings, but men tend to keep it more professional. They will talk more openly in negotiations and in business 
matters, she says, but women are also comfortable talking about their feelings.
The University of Maryland study found that a protein in the brain called FOXP2 is responsible for our desire to speak. The research was conducted with elementary-school age children.The girlsin the study had 40% more of the FOXP2 protein in their brains than the boys, which means that it's possible that females are hard-wired genetically to be bigger talkers.
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How ironic . I've noticed that FOXy women tend to be quieter than the average woman .
It's not news to me.
Emotion vs. Logic. Proof that emotion rules.
Actually, I'm one up on this. I don't understand what she's saying.
Emotion vs. Logic?Rush did an Album on this called Hemispheres....
Men tend to drink more beer than women. It seems that the MALTEDBARLEY3 protein is more prevelant in males....
:~)
"Are you even listening to me?"
"Yes dear."
Yep, sounds accurate.
I believe this, without a doubt!!! It's most frustrating!
Men have a built in ''off switch''. After 100 words it turns itself on and we never hear another word. We just nod on occasion, and once in a while a ''yes dear''.
Frustrating for who?
Geeze, it was only 4 paragraphs... light weight!
Then one that never opens her mouth must be the ultimate turn on!
She's Chinese Buzz! Maybe if she spoke a little Yiddish?
LOL, I find this ironic coming from such a chatty little fish. Does she hear you?
Or that we have a lot more on our minds.
Sometimes Matt and I are in the car, and we've been driving and I have been deep in thought and I suddenly realize that we are not talking. So I ask him what's he thinking about and he says "Nothing". It took me a long time to realize that he is really thinking of nothing. I mean how can you blank out your mind? But he does!
Great Album!
I might have that protein.... and a great beer store. The perfect combo!
That sounds about right!
Isn't it thought? And your hubby is fairly chatty! Imagine one that has less words! Scary!
Don't believe that, Perrie. We guys are thinking of something (at least I am), but sharing those thoughts will, in that moment, begin a conversation that interrupts our thoughts. So, it is way more convenient to say "nothing" and deal with "how can you be thinking of nothing" than to deal with the female chatter that is sure to follow an explanation of our thoughts.
Sorry I let the cat out of the bag, guys.
Try answering honestly some time and see where it gets you. "Boobs" is not what she wants to hear.
I could start by teaching her to say: "That was such a machiyah!"
That got a chuckle out of me. Thanks for that. Nope, no hubby.
Membership in the guy's club?
Uh oh . That is one cat you should not have let out of the bag ...
LH, ..LOL! Barley or Barely 3...that is the question.
BF, Of course, women know that about men, you know. So they perfect the art of incorporating questions into their orations.
Nice.. Thanks Brolly!
Hal,
We should answer honestly about what we're thinking of, yet she doesn't want to hear the word "boobs". I sense a contradiction here; two mutually exclusive thoughts. Besides, I have answered honestly before and I'm well aware of where it gets me. Anger in a wife is not a condition to be encouraged. I've been married for almost 43 years, largely because I learned early when to make a meaningless, noncommittal answer.
Perrie,
Interesting that I had just opened this article when my son came downstairs and showed me the red paper that his daughter brought home from school. In that Kindergarten class, a red paper coming home means that there is a behavioral problem that requires parental action. On it she wrote what she did to get the red. Talking in class when the teacher had told her not to do so (she is a chatterbox). True to the study, her dad said very few words, but those cut a lot deeper than the ones she used to get the red.
Lucky none of the girls noticed.
I was thinking the same thing. That's how we guys can get by with so much stuff, ya know.
Perrie, I've thought about that before - "thinking about nothing".. lol
Have you ever experienced that realization that you were gone [with not that much time having passed, maybe just a few minutes or more], and you wonder where you were ? ..A sort of blanking out, which I've wondered (or maybe read about) if the brain does it on purpose. There's a spot in the brain, can't recall the name of it at the moment, but I think it's sort of like a car's 'neutral.' The engine is still running...but it's taking a rest.
I'm not sure if that's where we go during sleep or not, but my "wondering" part is that maybe during the day, we get sent there, and that our subconscious thoughts might kick-in and maybe that's where we were, but they're buried too deep for us to consciously remember them?! ..Just guessing.
Yes, we often have a lot on our minds, don't we. Hard to imagine life without always having something that needs to be understood or figured out... we're so curious as a species!
It should be obvious that this cat was a female ... based on the way it kept yammering on & on . Such hostility on your part ! You should just say "Yes dear" to it .
I guess mocking imitation doesn't help ... not that you've tried such a thing !
Hmmm.
Hal,
Wish we could vote comments up here. That one would get at least a double.
Good Start!
OMG! That bastsid is dead meat!!
Hal,
Matt would say boobs. He is also cleaver enough to know how to answer me. If I am wearing something that he doesn't think looks good on me, he doesn't say that. He says "OK, Nice... I've seen you look better though". He's a pro, LOL!
TTGA,
Aww.. poor thing! Hope she doesn't get into big trouble! I was a chatter box, too and my dad said not much. Still pretty quiet.
I think she telling her hubby, "Oh no no no no" to nookie because he's thinking of boobs while driving, and lying about it.
IDK Chloe.. My mind is always busy....even when I sleep. I dream vividly.
Now here's a question I've been thinking about.
Now I know men who are quiet and men who are every bit as chatty as a woman. Does that mean that they have more of that protein in their brains?
LOL, good one jwc!
I knew you were going to say that!
Hey, sorry Mr. Perrie, dude.
Well ... cat boobs aren't all that much to write home about anyway . BTW , I'll bet you don't know what breed of cat that is !
IDK, either. Well, the recent research saying women have 30% more of the Foxp2 causing them to be more verbal is interesting, but as you point out, there are men just as or more talkative as some women.
Hmmm..?
I couldn't find any current research on why that would happen -- maybe those men are actually rats??!! ..just joking..
(reports said male rats have more of that protein)
I could guess at some possible reasons, but they would just be guesses.
You can actually be freewheeling in the thought department, when thoughts are so transient that they just pass through your mind without leaving a trace, and because you are not applying the memory centers of your brain they don't get logged as thoughts.
So, yes you can think about nothing.
There's also a brain region that allows the brain to take a break. I can't quickly find that information again.
Traitor!
Of course that starts a conversation in itself, like how can you be thinking of nothing. You must be thinking of something. You just don't want to talk to me do you? Well you just go on thinking of nothing and see if I care. Understand. Did you hear me? Thinking of nothing. How can you think of nothing? Well let me tell you what I was thinking.
Opposite at my house I talk more.
Since my wife and I have been married, she has worn out 5 sets of lips, with her none stop talking.
Don't tell her I said that.
Funny, jwc. We're kind of like squirrels, sometimes we don't use them all up at once, but save them for later.
Ha ha. Separate bedrooms was the last step before I divorced my last wife.
Here is an adder to the research Perrie:
Men (for the most part) have an ability to filter out what their ears are hearing to allow them to focus on one thing. As an example, play four pieces of music simultaneously and present them to the sexes, and men (for the most part) will be able to in time, identify each individual song, while women (for the most part) will only continue to hear the mix. I saw the same thing in sonar school for the Navy. There are not very many female sonar techs simply because their brains are not wired to filter sound as is needed to identify surface and subsurface contacts.
This also explains why men don't hear their wives yelling at them when they are engaged in say a football game. To remedy this and keep your wives happier...... turn the sound off guys. You know the rules of the game well enough, and the announcers are getting paid by the syllable anyway.