Who's more sociable, you or your significant other?

I would have been the one to offer up the table or share it. I wouldn't have necessarily talked up a storm to the couple, but I would have shared the table for sure.

What trollie said. I would offer to share the table, but I wouldn't have engaged them in a lengthly conversation. My SO wouldn't have either.

It's a toss up. I HAVE to be social, as I work with the public. He does not. he works inside a machine and does not talk to anyone all day for like 14 hrs. So when we go out, it is the complete opposite. He wants to chat with people, and I want my privacy, as I have to be so open and social all wk.

We are both the same, right on the very edge if being hermits.

The funny thing is I loved to be invited but I don't want to go!

My husband enjoys socializing more than I do. It's interesting because I think he's kind of awkward in the give and take of conversation, but I don't think he sees it that way - and I've never shared my opinion with him.

My husband wouldn't have minded if I invited that couple over to the table. He might or might not have chatted, depending on the other couple, but he feels no awkwardness at sitting and saying nothing.

Great question. In that situation we would have shared the table and chatted.

A few weeks ago DH had surgery and I was in the waiting area with another man for a little over an hour. We acknowledged each other, but didn't get into any conversation. The next afternoon DH & I were at the surgeon's office for the follow-up and in walks this man and his wife. She looks at my DH and said "well, we know you can sleep anywhere" and starts teasing him about snoring in the post-op area. She and DH are chatting away like old friends. She gets called back first and DH continues to chat with the husband. By the time DH gets called back, I am involved. This is when things start to get really good. What was a long conversation about health issues, the challenges of chemo in your 80s, etc., veers into work history when I get a text from DS that he just got offered his first job. Now this gentleman starts in on his 60 year career that started as an LA cop through detective, then into the DA's office and finally taking on his third career as a judge. DH said he could hear our conversation and was so disappointed they left ahead of him because he wanted to invite them for dinner .

To summarize, DH is more likely to start conversations and I'll join in if it gets interesting. SaveSave

DH is very social and loves talking to people. I can see him light up in a room full of people. On the other hand, talking with strangers is a nightmare for me. I can do it, bit I really dislike it.

We are equally sociable and both would have offered the table and chatted. Although, I think he is better with small talk.

I'm definitely the more outgoing and sociable one in the relationship.

My dh says that I can talk to anyone and make friends with all sorts of people, but he's really reserved.

He has opened up a lot since his current job where he has to talk to customers on the phone all day. He tells me a lot about his coworkers, etc. and is a lot more chatty than he used to be. Sometimes he really surprises me. Other times when I've heard him talk on the phone all day, I just want some quiet, but he still wants to talk. 

We both would offer to let the couple sit with us or just give them our table. How much dh talked to them would depend on how friendly they were and what we talked about. 

Dh is more friendly when he gets to know you better. He's the one that goes to the grocery store all the time, etc. and he's on a first name basis with most of the people that work the night shift at the store across the street from us. I know a couple of them, but he really surprised me by saying hello to everyone we saw the other night. 

I would have never believed that he would do this when we were first married.

I am social and my husband is not. He is good if he knows someone well, but he doesn't do small talk. People think he doesn't like them so I have to explain that he is just not comfortable until he knows them better. And I talk too much, he doesn't!

Depends on where we are!

We are both quite sociable and we have actually invited another couple to join us at a sushi restaurant when there were no tables left. We had great conversation!

DSO is more sociable than I am. In your scenario both of us would have invited the couple to take a seat but I would be unlikely to start up a conversation.