Married/en-coupled folk, I've asked this before, but I can't remember your answers -- is this typical? Or calling even once a day during the work day?

It's typical for Joe and, for a lot of the same reasons stated above - how was your morning? How's the Punk? Did she get to school ok? Was school dickheadish this morning? And then the same in the evenings when he gets home. How'd your day end up? How was the Punk at school? What's for dinner?

Although, since I instated the "He who asks about dinner first has to decide on it and make it - if there's nothing in the crockpot" rule, the dinner question is asked a lot less frequently.

There have been times when I've engaged in multiple-daily e-mail contacts with little or no apparent value with someone. Stretches of e-mails that are just about an attachment or a link that made one of us think of the other one. But, again, not living together. Not always sure when next we'd see each other, and there's no simple way to save it all up and dump it later.

We never call during the day (we don't have the privacy or the predictable chunks of time to do so, and both loathe the phone) but we text pretty constantly. It's generally a mix of "how's your day?" and "buy cat food on your way home".

The funny thing is? I hardly ever email my DH - if I do, it's to forward an email from my brother (who lives in the UK). My daughter emails me 3 or 4 times a day. Mostly when she gets home from school to tell me about homework or such. But then she's always sending me funny links and stuff too. So of course, I have to reciprocate and send her fun stuff that I've found and tell her about how work is going.

You know, thinking back, the one time I lived with someone I was involved with, we did talk quite a bit. And the same with roommates. Maybe when you live with someone, you get used to sharing your thoughts that much more.

Gud, I hope you check in soon and let us remind you what a wonderful person you are.

I have always been under the impression that the more you talk to a person, the more you have to tell them...just 'cause you start getting into more of the nitty gritty details of your life. Or, at least that's what I've been telling myself lately.

calls, emails, all the time. I couldn't tel you how often, because it isn't something I think about- we just do it. usally it is about something. however, sometimes the something is the cat and something cute the cat did. It isn't something we chose to do - it just evovled that way. At some of Matt's jobs - I never knew when he would be home - so calling or emailing made a lot of sense ( plus if he called as he was leaving - I wouldn't worry about the when he was going to be there ) Now, I usally do some dinner prep - he finishes dinner when he gets the call I am comming home. There are times when it gets annoying - because I get interrupted or matt picks up the phone when he is in a meeting (going back to the early conversation), but it just works that way. I know lots of couples that talk less. And I know couples that have been running a business together for 20+ years.

Well, yeah, constant communication is because I like him. I see stuff I think he would think is interesting and I pass it on.

Yup. I was like that, too. Emails, mostly, but I still talked to him on the phone at least once a day at work.

We ping each other a lot

that's the description. and I agree with vw - the more I spend time with someone , the more I have to say. Lots of people think I am quite. Dh knows better - i just think a lot before I say anything, except with him and my immediate family.

Although a classic Buffista communication? In New Orleans Joe posted to the Board from the room while Aimee was down in the courtyard.