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Think again. A study challenges the stereotype of male-female verbal habits.
  • the difference is HOW they talk and the question is why this image persists

    I think it is because men talk to gain or maintain a tenable social position and women talk to bond. Once men realize there is nothing they can say to their wife that will make them look good they talk less and the wife still wants (at least for a while) to bond.