<human>: We've been dating for just under three months but we spend a lot of time together, sometimes 24 hours at a time, and we've grown pretty close. We have a lot of really intimate moments. We have some mutual friends, similar interests, similar personality traits, as well as our own separate interests and hobbies.

I keep hearing that the truest sign of having found the "right" person is that the two of you can talk for hours without an awkward silence. This is not the case for us.

We talk about a lot of interesting things, tell funny stories, have inside jokes, reference tv shows/movies we've both watched, etc, but we don't always have something substantive to talk about.

Often we just goof off and say nonsense things and make fun of each other, and sometimes there's just nothing to say. We experience uncomfortable silences sometimes when we're walking places, eating out, having beers somewhere, doing just about anything that allows for conversation. 

He's told me he's kind of introverted, so he doesn't really talk about feelings, though he's really knowledgeable about kind of obscure pop-culture and talks about that a lot.

For my part, I think I've grown less sociable/talkative in the past few years due to certain lifestyle choices, (ie. smoking weed, experimenting with hallucinogens) and I feel like my ability to communicate has deteriorated a little. I've been in university and college for four years, I have interests and hobbies, I think I'm fairly intelligent, I go out and do lots of fun things, I read a lot and I watch/have watched a lot of really good movies and tv shows, but I find it hard to talk about these things. 

So yeah, maybe due to these and other factors, I just can't see us sitting and talking for hours. The other night we were at a pool hall for about 4-5 hours and at one point, almost immediately after his friends left, we spent half an hour looking through/talking about the stories in a newspaper together. 

Is this okay? Is this normal? Are we not compatible?

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<bot>: I know for a fact that we couldn't talk for hours on end. We have lots of awkward silences. Sometimes I just don't have anything to talk about. Normal?