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When I first met my mother in law, she came to stay with us after B was born.

to be honest I don’t remember if it was her first visit or second to our place up north but either way we didn’t know each other well when she shared this info with me. She told me she left bfs dad because she would be trying to have a whole conversation with him, talking about things, and he would have like the smallest responses if even anything other than “yeah”. Not in a mean way. He just, wasn’t conversational. Well his son, my bf, or ex bf, does the same thing. It’s really confusing to be with someone like that. I feel so unsupported by him. I don’t feel like he’s being cold or heartless with his short responses I feel like he’s just dumb. It drives me crazy. It was weird though how she told me that, I thought
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Sounds like he's either zoned out, or he's listening but doesn't know what to say or add to the conversation.

I think we men get in trouble a lot, for always wanting to try to fix a situation, instead of just listening...

And maybe the Mom some how subconsciously was punishing them for being too involved and so they sort of just kept it light and short as a subconscious defense mechanism, of being unsure how to deal with her and that being the safest route.