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Should I be worried if I can't handle a person talks too much or gives too much detail?

I'll use my mum as an example as she is someone I see the most often. But it happens with others.

I find that if my mum visits I'd for example she is sitting and trying to get my son to sleep she will want to have a conversation with me. Silence seems to bother her. Even if I may say to her I use this as quiet time to get him to sleep faster. She will find small questions about unimportant things to ask me.
Did you organise your night out?
Do you think he's ready to go to bed?
How's the little one any kicking?

It might sound odd but that time when he's going off to sleep for me is the perfect time to start unwinding.

When my mum will be relaying a story about something that has occured she will give so much detail.

At work Hemma who is friends with the boss Yash, was fuming as she's been waiting for a chair. But 2 came in and she didn't get one. What I find really sneaky is that Nessa took one even though she knew hemma had been waiting. The problem is Nessa asked me to give her a chair and Rita wanted one. Nessa and hemma have been getting on so well, they frequently go to lunch and attend events outside of work together.
Nessa said she wanted a chair because she has arthritis in her (? I can't remember)

When the chairs were delivered Rita and hemma weren't in. But that day Nessa was, so she asked me if I could put one of the chairs her room.
When Hemma arrived she took one for herself.

Rita came in a few days later while hemma wasnt there as took the chair, Hemma was using as they're offices are opposite. But didn't put it back that night.
When Hemma came in she was fuming f*ING and blindly firstly at me because she says me. She reassured me that it wasn't my fault but she was so angry as she had been waiting for this chair for 2 years.

Nessa who was in heard the commotion, but instead of offering her chair she remained silent in her room until Hemma went quiet. She then called me and said if Hemma or Rita want her chair they can have it as it hasn't actually been helping her.

When Rita came in she was left without a chair as I wasn't going to take the chair upstairs i was busy, Nessa could have emailed them both or put it in Ritas room herself


So when Rita went to her room Hemma came out and she got a right rollicking.
I didn't hear it but apparently Rita was completely shaken up by the whole thing as she didn't realise that the chairs were specifically allocated. She had asked for one a while back also.

Eventually the chair that was in Nessa's room found it's way into the hallway, which Rita took.

But gosh all this fuss over a chair.

Nessa came to me to complain how childish Hemma is being, now when she passes Nessa's office she turns her head in the other direction and hasn't invited her out for lunch.


So for me to write this out I've had to take 2 breaks as it was so boring and consuming. But I wanted you to get an idea of what I mean.

I don't know if it's because this last story in particular is something I don't care to know about. But I wish she condensed it to , 2 chairs came into the office and 1 didn't go to the right person. Said person blew up and instead of it being resolved by offering up the chair not in use the guilty party, remained quiet.

I can't get her to talk the way I want as that would be controlling but omg... Information overload.
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daydeeo · 61-69, M
I sympathize. It's a very difficult situation. I wish I could tell you I've found a sloution to that problem, but I haven't. 🥺
Mellowgirl · 31-35, F
@daydeeo I hope that one day I can find a way to filter much of the information out. She gets really upset if I say something like, " ok, so what happened" if she waffles about the background stuff.
Not at all. Its too much
Mellowgirl · 31-35, F
@V00doo thank you, sometimes I feel like I'm going nuts, it's so hard to be able to get her to see that it's too much for me.
It's like when clearly she can see I've got something on my mind she will just keep referring to it. Like she needs to address the elephant in the room.
tenente · 36-40, M
i wouldn't worry. some people are A LOT
Mellowgirl · 31-35, F
@tenente thanks, I thought I was suffering from ADHD or something coz it really bothers me.
Lilnonames · F
Like a Steven King novel and he's explaining what the door looks like he's about to enter, fifteen pages later he opens the door

 
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