Relationhips
Who loves?
And who loves less?
Who is self-sacrificing?
Who is insensitive?
Who feels too much?
Who apologizes first?
Who decides?
Who is right?
Who does the wrong thing?
Who gets the upper hand?
Who will yield?
Who will endure?
Who will not be provoked?
Who will explode?
Who will hide?
Who will walk away?
When?
Conversation is a unique human phenomenon. Analyses of free-flowing conversations indicate that about 2/3 of conversation time is devoted to social topics, most of which can be called gossip.
Robin Dunbar Gossip in Evolutionary Perspective, Review of General Psychology, June, 2004
