We talk less, should I worry?

I think each partnership is different and whatever suits you is fine. My OH is rarely quiet for long he has a habit of singing old songs and jingles, he is on his laptop at the moment but I can hear him humming along quite quietly and sometimes he'll sing it out loud if its something he knows I'll remember too or he'll say 'remember this one' in fact I have on occasions been known to say 'shut up I'm trying to listen to this' I'm sure he'd get on some peoples nerves . We do chat a bit even on walks we always find something to comment on.

Well....we're both sat here in silence on our own tablets

This is far more interesting than trying to get any sense out of the old man.

I don't know whether my husband wants to talk or not...he hasn't been able to get a word in edgeways in the last thirty odd years
Every couple tends to chat less, but for us it's a lovely relaxed, companionable silence, we don't find it odd or uncomfortable at all!

Often quite quiet here too, but that's comfortable.
I am by nature a much more 'chatty' person than DH and always have been.
We do discuss family situations and as we are both still working there are times when we discuss work.

My DH of nearly 50 years & I rarely have anything to say to each other. He's profoundly deaf & only wears his hearing aids when we have guests. I'm perfectly happy with my interests, whilst he likes to stay in with his TV & books. It suits us fine, & most other couples I know are the same. In fact one couple from our village who kiss, canoodle & chat together non-stop on the bus, are thought of by all of us as "extremely odd".

I talk a lot - DH pretends to listen! I was telling a friend the other day that I was chatting to my DH about something. She said 'do you and your DH talk?' I said we do. She said she rarely has a conversation with her DH. She seems fine with it though.

We definitely talk a little less, but it is companionable. As Rinouchka says, having hobbies outside the home helps a lot.
A couple I know, who are sociable, deliberately do not spend time together when out,or even sit next to each other sometimes, so that they have things to talk about when home again, having spoken to different people from each other! Works for them.

My husband is not a natural conversationalist whereas I love social interaction. My husband could live quite contentedly on his own without necessarily seeing other human beings on a daily basis. I would shrivel without daily human contact.

At first, after returement, we conversed less about issues and more about family situations, domestic things. Things are slightly better conversationally since I urged him to take charge of a group to discuss current events and do other activities without me. This provides us some with some new things to relate and discuss when we are at home together.

SunnySusie : Accept that you are different but encourage different activities outside the home that will provide you both with points of departure for conversation in a natural way. And accept the contented silence( although this is a challenge for me)!
Conversation can improve but outside stimulation is needed and much of the time, it is the woman who sets the ball rolling.

However, it is a fact that the only males with whom I can have a real natter at length, besides girlfriends, are my gay male friends.

Same here. Oddly, he is worse, and the only time I find it really irritating, when we are out walking. As soon as we are outside the front door almost, he will lapse into stony silence and I get barely a word out of him. It's not that he's doing something he doesn't want to do - the walk may have been at his suggestion. If I talk to him he will grunt a reply. I told him recently that I might as well be out by myself. It has become a bone of contention.

Yes we are comfortable with silence. I do think tablets and smart phones have something to do with it as well. Having said that we often share things we have found, I like to read and get immersed so no good talking to me. My husband is relentlessly cheerful in the mornings and I am not, oh dear we don't sound suited at all do we.
We do share some interests and discuss those a lot, we have separate families so try to keep each other updated on what is happening with them.Agree with previous poster, if I want a chat I usually call a girlfriend.
It works for us and we are happy.

No we don't have a lot of conversation. He is usually watching TV or on the computer and shows little interest in things that I want to talk to him about but constantly talks AT me about sport or tv programmes that I don't watch. I don't find it a problem it is just the way we are and I like doing my own thing.

My DH and I often sit in a comfortable silence. I don't think it is anything to worry about. I think men tend to talk (in my limited experience) when there is something practical to talk about, they don't tend to chat like women do. If I want a general chat about life in general, I ring my sister.