I had a father-in-law once, who, while visiting , got cornered by my next door neighbor. She would latch on and not let go. He managed to break away during an infrequent pause to catch her breath. When he came inside he said, "I declare. I believe that woman was vaccinated with a phonograph needle." I know this is all meant in jest but I can't help but think of those of us, who have lost a beloved wife, who would give anything to hear that voice again in a now empty house.

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I have a pretty severe hearing loss. Often I cant kids or womens voices.
And I make that fact very clear to anyone I have any real contact with.
I used to work with a chick who talked non stop. I told her often I could not hear her. Did not register at all. She kept yammering on. It finally dawned on me that, to her, it did not matter if I heard her at all. She was essentially talking to herself.

High frequency hearing loss is God's gift to old men.

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The worst thing about a frequent talker is they're tendency to tell excruciatingly long stories, filled with every superfluous detail you don't care about. I'm thinking for God's sake just get to the point already. This 45 minute epic could've been over in 5 minutes.

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The worst thing about a frequent talker is they're tendency to tell excruciatingly long stories, filled with every superfluous detail you don't care about. I'm thinking for God's sake just get to the point already. This 45 minute epic could've been over in 5 minutes.

LOL... this is my son. Love the boy, but man he can tell some ponderous stories about minutia.

Em ex was a non-stop talker, mostly about the most inane crap or her stilted opinions on everything.

My wife now and I are much more compatible in this regard, and many others, thankfully

I get home and Mrs. Angus starts telling me the never ending story................

My wife isn’t a nonstop talker. But when she tells a story, it’s long and so detail-filled that sometimes I lose track if what the story is about. There are many times I have to redirect the story as what starts off as story A, gets sidetracked by a detail and turns into story B, with the original A being lost/forgotten.

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I've dealt with a lot of grisly stuff in my time, to the point were I don't want to see, hear, or think about it any more. My wife loves the bloodiest, goriest, most horrific true crime stories....
She often pulls me out of these escapes to chatter endlessly about shit I don't want to hear...

This right here. I don’t want to watch sad, gory, disturbing crap. She always seems to tune into it, and always insists on dragging me into it with her.

I never realized until I retired, but I am a sir talks a lot in our marriage.

Not a problem, as I suffer from “spousal selective hearing”; and that’s when the fight started.

Like my dad used to say, “that girl was inoculated with a phonograph needle”. The wife will not be quiet. I love her to death but she wears me out.

Get to the point, is what sometimes slips out of my mouth....

Can’t stand unnecessary jabbering...my little kid and Mrs Mike both drone on...just gimme the pertinent points and I will decide if I need more information FFS.

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Add to all that, my girlfriend's excessive use of pronouns and within a minute or two, I have no idea who or what she's talking about.

My wife is not too much of a talker, but she does do that. She'll start out a question, out of the blue, so full of pronouns that I have no idea what she is talking about.

For example: "Did you take the thing to the place?"

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For example: "Did you take the thing to the place?"

She's in the mob?

Of course I don't wish ill on my wife, but she has been ill with a respiratory funk for a week. I gotta say, it sure has been peaceful.

Like most, my wife is a talker. She knows I'm not so she doesn't get (too) offended when I zone out in the middle of a monologue. The only thing that grinds my gears is when she asks me a question: "are you going to the store tomorrow?", then before I can even answer goes into a 30 sec spiel about the weather and what she's gonna wear and this and that. Then she'll look at me like I have 2 heads and ask me again if I'm going to the store tomorrow.

My wife talks non-stop. She calls me constantly for no real reason. Excuse like:

I just left work.
I just left the store.
I'm going to another store.
The sky is blue, etc...

I love her to death, but man, STFU and enjoy the surroundings on occasion.

After 29 years of marriage my wife knows I like quiet when I wake up and get home from work. She also knows I have no patience for too much yapping so she minimizes her talk. I couldn’t take someone who has to talk all the time.

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Em ex was a non-stop talker, mostly about the most inane crap or her stilted opinions on everything.../QUOTE]

I dont talk. The wife doesnt. It works well.
The kids, on the other hand....
listening to my son tell a story gives what my dad once called “sweaty ears” - when someone talks and talks and hardly says anything, and gives your ears a workout.

I call it, "Diarrhea of the mouth", and it drives me up a wall!