DearPrudie: I never thought this would be my life after 40.
A new colleague was recently transferred to my department at work. While she’s great at the job, she has a habit that drives me up a wall. Every time someone shares an anecdote with her, she repeats the final sentence several times in a row and riffs on it. For example, I told her about an obnoxious client, and ended the story by saying, “I’m not a fan of his.” She responded by saying, “Not a fan. Not even a little bit. Not. A. Fan. Would not cheer for his team, even if they paid me.
I think it’s best to give up on making Chad a better listener. Maybe it’s his ADHD, maybe he never learned manners, maybe we’re seeing internalized misogyny play out … who knows! But it’s hard to train a 28-year-old man who, again, has no real personal connection to you or incentive to tweak his behavior to make the relationship work.You say you want “balance.” The way to get that is to listen to him only as much as he listens to you—which is not very much.
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