Who Do you Talk to the Most? Your Best Friend?

So who is your "Fav 5"..you know those annoying commercials from T-mobile, who is your "Fave Five"..selling you unlimited call to your favorite five numbers? But did you ever think your favorite numbers could prove how invested you are in creating romantic ties?

A new study published in the journal of Scientific suggests that romantic relationships are driven by women.

The Oxford University experts took mobile phone data (calls and texts) from about 3 million Europeans over seven months to compile their findings.

Their results showed that women in their 20's start to have a male "best-friend" until about the age of 45 or so where there phone-calling patterns change and turn to a female "best bud".

Men on the other hand, develop their female "best-friend" around 22 years old and keep them as their #1 speed dial for about the first 7 years of their relationship until their calls start to shift more towards other friends..

The reason why?

They say men have a more consistent  pattern in calling their assumed to be girlfriend turned wife in the earlier years of their relationship..while women focus on their male best friend (presumably their boyfriend-husband) during the early and 'reproductive' stages in their lives and then shift their focus to a female best-friends ( most likely their daughter).

Basically saying that women call their spouse more than anyone else until their children turn to be around a childbearing age.

The studies co-author, professor Robin Dunbar says, "what seems to happen is that women push the 'old man' out to become their second best friend, and he gets called much less often and all her attention is focused on her daughters just at the point at which you are likely to see grandchildren arriving."

That makes sense right? As soon as a woman's own kids are married and settled down its,"So when am I going to get some grand kids" and "You're not getting any younger I hope I'm still around to be a grandmother".. In my own "scientific" research that would seem to be the more than likely reason for the volume change in phone calls.

And while your mother is pestering you about when her grandchild stork is going to arrive your mate is out calling his other friends to hit up the golf course so he doesn't have to endure the next harangue.

So who do you call or text you more often? If your in a relationship and in your mid 20's is it your mate? Or if your in your mid 40's are you speed dialing your daughter?

Somehow it all reminds me of the movie 'Little Fockers' .. you know.. overbearing parents and all...