no-chat partner

Once, while running my group for late diagnosed men with Asperger syndrome, I suggested that they ask their partners how their day had been. This was a tremendous success (even though one of them queried the point saying, 'What? Even though you're not interested?')
I told my DH about this and now he does it! Please note he doesn't have AS and I'm sure your DHs don't either. Maybe it's a man thing.

Another rather non chatty hubby here!

Bring up any of his favourite subjects and/or the daily news and he is away on a tangent.
Otherways he will sit for hours quite happily lost in his own thoughts.

As a bit of a "chatterbox" I have at times felt rather peeved.

However overall I am pleased to add we enjoy our times of "putting the world to rights" as well as companioble silence, spent always together in close proximity one to another.

I am the silent partner...a woman of few words

I also had a chatty DH Oldwoman. I was once asked if we were newly married (we had been together 35 years at the time), when I asked why the question they said it was because we were always talking, she had run out of things to say to her husband years before!

We sometimes chatted but also latterly enjoyed what you might call “companiable silence” in between discussions about whatever was in the news.
It reassures me to know that one of our last conversations just a day before he died was about a particular Tory omnishambles (Pritti Patel and Israel) and we were in full agreement.

Am I the only one who had a chatty husband! One of the many things I miss are the long conversations we would have over dinner every night

Mine can be quiet for ages reading. DIY magazine sort of thing or doing something and then when I am watching TV or deep in a book come in and talk non-stop! I say nothing for a good bit as sometimes the episode is quite short lived but I do have to point out what I am doing sometimes.
I am just glad I still have him though as he nearly died a couple of years ago.

I don’t think that men chat in the same way as women annep although when meeting other men they certainly seem to my DH does anyway.They don’t seem to do ‘chat’ with their wives /partners all that much......should we be grateful? I instigate chat, ie. a subject, and he says what he thinks on the matter, but men don’t generally seem to let conversation flow on and diverge into other subjects as women do.
Having been married a long time am used to this and accept it and sometimes a quiet time is rather nice, but I can see that in some cases ( yours) it can be upsetting.
I have plenty of friends to chat to and belong to hobby groups and family all live locally, but I could see that if you didn’t you may feel alienated by the silence.
Try talking about things that interest him just to get him talking?

What is he interested in? Can you start a conversation going? It has probably become a habit not to chat unless it is necessary. Have you told him you want to chat? What’s his reaction when you tell him things you have seen or done? Some people only talk when they think they have something to say. Can you share a joke or laugh at daft things?

I have one of those! Drives me demented.