My husband — a brooding New Yorker, polite and tolerant of much — broke on the seventh day of our family vacation.
“She doesn’t stop talking,” he said.
The ″she″ is my mother — a bubbly Midwesterner — who can hold court in a room of strangers with the deftness of a small-town politician at a church picnic. Awkward silences don’t stand a chance — even in a jam-packed elevator.
But some people like silence. They thrive on it, said John Hackston, head of thought leadership at The Myers-Briggs Company.
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