Monday, 31 August 2009
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If You Can't Beat 'em, Join 'em!
How do you deal when your husband/partner is passionate about something and doesn't let you forget it, but you couldn't care less?
It's like, I would hate to be unsupportive or discouraging, but in my case, my husband watches CNBC constantly, has tried to explained to me what a "short sale" is about 50 times already, and is perpetually going on about those damn Republicans -- and frankly, it gets a bit exhausting!
Anyway, as you can see, his loves are the stock market and politics. In my opinion, the most boring combination there is! But, hey.. that's what tickles his fancy!
So, my point is, I've developed this coping mechanism that I really feel guilty about doing. I have learned to tune him out. As soon as I hear "it" coming, my mind goes into temporary shutdown, and I automatically go to my "happy place."
On occasion, however, I DO find some of it interesting. For instance, I like learning about buying and selling stocks and how all that affects the economy as a whole, and about supply and demand, and GDP, blah blah blah... so I WILL listen. And there's nothing wrong with learning, right?
Have any of you been in a similar situation?
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OH YES!!!! I share your pain.. My hubby is in to politics and football.. American.
I shudder inside every time he tries to talk to me about these things..
Ok I'm a Canadian, and we live here.. so I try to be patient and actually listen because he did give up living in Florida to move to the land of ice and snow. I have found the best way to deal with the politic thing is to take a deep breath, and actually try to pay attention. And I have learned a few things, tho I still don't know which party stands for what. And the whole football thing.. well we have one tv in the basement and one in the living room, and if he wants to watch NFL I send him downstairs, or I will nap beside him while he watches.. we watch hockey together tho!
For us, it's his work. Tim can ramble on and on and on and on about this customer that he talked to today or what this co-worker did with that payment yesterday and...it's just...not...thrilling for me. I care...I swear I do...but I find myself wondering, "Is this really important? To either of us?" and then I tune him out and go to my happy place, too. I fail at the pop-quizzes later though... *cringe* He'll sit there and promise that he told me about x-thing weeks ago and I have no recollection. Opps.
I do that to my dad all the time when he starts going off on tangents. xD I just have to make a noise whenever there's a pause and he never knows!
I hear ya. Any time my boyfriend has his best friend over, they tend to talk about one or more of the following: RPG games, something or other about high school, something or other about when they were or the diving team and or cross country team together. I have no opinion to input on any of these subjects, so I space out and flip the switch in my mind to "off."