Too much like some real conversations around here. Ours has a particularly annoying pattern: When I don’t hear clearly, I ask for a repeat which peeves Spouse immensely. When Spouse doesn’t hear clearly, she either ignores the whole thing (75%) or makes up something that’s often close to what I said, but with one or more words missing. “Not” being one such missing word… and gets peeved when I then ask her to repeat it back or go ahead and answer the question (“Oh, was that a question?”)… which peeves me…
Too much like some real conversations around here. Ours has a particularly annoying pattern: When I don’t hear clearly, I ask for a repeat which peeves Spouse immensely. When Spouse doesn’t hear clearly, she either ignores the whole thing (75%) or makes up something that’s often close to what I said, but with one or more words missing. “Not” being one such missing word… and gets peeved when I then ask her to repeat it back or go ahead and answer the question (“Oh, was that a question?”)… which peeves me…