{"id":41297,"date":"2020-01-18T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41297"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:58:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T14:58:28","slug":"qotd-men-and-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/01\/18\/qotd-men-and-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Men and talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s this stereotype that says women love to talk and men don&#8217;t. There&#8217;s probably a little truth to that, but the real problem in that area between men and women tends to come from the topics women want to talk about. As a general rule, most men aren&#8217;t very interested in talking about their feelings. Also, the mundane details of their day? Where they went to lunch? Who said what to whom? Not only are men not interested in discussing these things, they&#8217;re afraid if they do, it might prompt the woman to spend 15 minutes telling him all the details of her day.<\/p>\n<p>Also, because many women tend to over-analyze, they assign all sorts of deep meaning to trivial gestures and then demand explanations. Sometimes a rose is just a rose and five minutes of silence is just a man thinking about what he has to do at work tomorrow. You want to get a man to talk? It&#8217;s not hard. Ask him to explain what&#8217;s going on in a UFC fight or what his favorite sexual fantasy is and you&#8217;ll have trouble getting him to shut up.<\/p>\n<p>John Hawkins, <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/2012\/8\/23\/5-things-women-do-that-secretly-annoy-men\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;5 Things Women Do That Secretly Annoy Men&#8221;, <em>PJ Media<\/em><\/a>, 2012-08-23.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s this stereotype that says women love to talk and men don&#8217;t. There&#8217;s probably a little truth to that, but the real problem in that area between men and women tends to come from the topics women want to talk about. As a general rule, most men aren&#8217;t very interested in talking about their feelings. 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