So far we’ve looked at the Early Responder and the Planner Aheader as two types of friends that should really look at upping their game, and this third habit is right up there.
Did you ever know someone who spoke about themself. Like always. Like non-stop. Incessantly? i knew someone like that and it quickly became quite tiring. You spend an hour with your friend and realise that you’ve only said five sentences? That the person spoke for forty minutes non-stop and then turned the conversation to something about you and within a minute had sequed it back to being something about them. Or segwayed as i like to say. They totally segwayed it back to being about them…
And about as exciting, incidentally. While it is important and worthwhile and good to hear about your friend, it can be a bit much if it is always about them, all the time.
How about you? Know anyone like this? Found any remedy for it or do you just spend less time with them unless you just want to be alone with someone else present?
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This sounds like the same friend who interrupts halfway through a sentence because something you said in the 30 seconds you were allowed to talk reminded them of something they did…or want to do…or absolutely must tell you about what happened to them this exact second!!
I continuously point out the behaviour and it improves for a while but usually goes back to bad habits
Yup. Although slightly different to the next one that is coming which is something I have been majorly guilty of.
I REALLY struggle with people who do this (especially when it is a friend I see often) It is frustrating enough in general chit chat, but it actually makes me angry if it happens while I’m sharing something a bit deeper. I’ve become so aware of NOT doing it to others that I make a point of asking at least 2 questions about what a friend has been saying before sharing my story/or opinion on the issue.
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