How do you handle an incessant talker?

interesteddad
Fri, 15 Nov 2013 23:22:01 +0000

I am the “strong silent type” ie, my wife and I get along great because she likes to talk and I (like to?) listen. Every once in a while, after being interrupted or having a sentence completed for me incorrectly, I will say, “OMG, can I please say one sentence???”



I hear ya. My wife and MIL = two motormouths. I don’t even think my wife will take a breath. Over the years, I got so tired of being interrupted every time I opened my mouth that I learned to just sit there and zone out. No way to participate in a conversation. No way to listen to the same stories. Of course, then I’d get complaints that I was being “anti-social”. Come to think of it, I found it so annoying over the years that I did grow to avoid social gatherings with my wife.