Married 30+ years? Answer this question
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Anonymous
| Also important to be comfortable in silence and in doing your own things. |
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Almost at 30 (over 30 if you start from when we became a couple), yes happily, and we talk about every topic under the sun (and beyond the sun too, yea, space!). We have a habit since empty nesting started of sitting down together after the working day is done, unplug, quiet music on, and just chatting about anything and everthing for about an hour. It wasn't a planned thing, it just evolved onto our almost daily habit.
We also both work from home, so we have constant chatter about the day as we pass in the kitchen or whatever, as if we were coworkers at the water cooler. And as a PP said, we are very comfortable in silence together too. Happy quiet moments in the kid-free years. |
Anonymous
Let me guess. On the spectrum? You describe my father, who has always been a challenge but is harder to deal with as he gets older and has more time. I feel really bad for my mom. |
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Sit around and wonder what single folk do
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Anonymous
If we didn’t have pets, and the current govt wasn't outrageous, I doubt we would have whole conversations. |
Anonymous
Are you a same sex couple? Either way, I envy you. |
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Been together 30 years, married 28+. He talks about his work a lot & isn’t always great about asking about my work (def Adhd/spectrumy). But, we also talk about:
Our respective hobbies Our kids Our friends Travel Books we’re reading Shows we’re watching together or separately Our families Sometimes I share things I read here. He never would have know about the Banfield murder w/o me sharing the details We’re both introverts with busy social lives so we both decompress at home and appreciate sitting together in silence. |
Anonymous
And that’s okay if you two are okay with it. No one talks nonstop for 30+ years. |
Anonymous
Happily married. |
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Music/concerts
Baseball DW's language/country of origin Travel plans and past travel People we encounter Finances Eldercare situation Cooking Current events Our relationship and history (upcoming 30th anniversary) |
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We enjoy a mutual abhorrence of current political daily drama and discuss
Nature, the birds the sky His siblings, my siblings (with affection) Friends (with affection) Our pets Our adult children Retirement planning Our childhoods Memories |
Anonymous
There’s no law that says people have to talk all the friggin time. |
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Married 30 years. Besides our kids, work and house matters, we talk about-
Trump politics (stressful but provides lots of convo!) politics generally (ditto above!) our living parents (their declining health) what’s going on with nieces/nephews new restaurants we want to try trips we want to take funny/interesting/surprising articles one of us reads tv shows/movies we have seen or want to see what we want to do the upcoming weekend (maybe see a play, hear a band, take a hike, do yard work, etc) what happened in our respective days the weather 
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Anonymous
just saw an above poster’s list- add baseball and friends to my list |
Anonymous
-happily married! |