In Dave Barry’s The Complete Guide to Guys, he writes about the huge gap between women and men with regard to their views on friendship and emotional connections. He talks about how when he and his wife get together with old friends, the women immediately begin having an intense catch-up conversation about events and their feelings. Barry and the other husbands watch the game or playoffs. Their emotional conversations are usually limited to arguing over what kind of pizza to order.
Barry exaggerates that when the other couples have departed, his wife will say something like: “Isn’t it great how well George is adjusting to having his leg amputated?” Barry will then pretend that he noticed their friend was missing a leg. While he is only exaggerating, Barry is illuminating a key point between men and women that is a basic truth in most relationships. 
Women are more oriented toward discussing and understanding emotions and feelings than men are.
While women are far from being savvier (and I am definitely not in the majority here) and do not necessarily possess better people skills than men. Again, I don’t have the best people skills, female or not. The usual conclusion is that women have a higher emotional intelligence than their husbands.
The reason is not because they are smarter or more emotionally intelligent, but because they have a lot more practice in being emotionally aware. Watch any set of kids on the playground. Watch how the girls interact versus how the boys do. Boys play with the priority of the game – the win, the chase – the elements of conflict. The girls are more interested in their feelings – it’s not uncommon to hear a girl cry that she is not someone’s friend anymore.
That cry wouldn’t slow the boys down an inch. But it will stop a girl’s game cold. While boys are not as naturally gravitating towards their feelings, they are also limited by social expectations and parameters. Girls are allowed to cry. Boys are discouraged from doing so. Don’t get me wrong, boys will be boys and girls will be girls. There is a biology behind this behavior, but the social expectations do not help.
Girls naturally play at social interactions and feelings and they spend the rest of their lives in this extensive education – by the time girls and boys reach maturity and becomes wives and husbands – the wives have a huge head-start on their husbands when it comes to emotional relationships.