For The Older Folks Here

[Janice]

Do you talk to your spouse and they don't answer you? Is this a senior moment for them or is it one of the following?

1. They have you on IGNORE.....

2. They actually don't hear you and you have to continuously get up to their face and repeat it.

3. They hear you, but it just takes a little longer to register in their brain what you are saying.

4. They are fine, just need their ears cleaned.

5. They are probably ready for a hearing aid.

[SouthFloridawx]

I'm not older but, when my spouse talks to me sometimes it just doesn't register for all five of those choices sometimes. LOL

edit: Also I sometimes find myself saying, "Did you say something honey?" She quickly replies, "Sweetie that was like 5 minutes ago." Then I promptly apologize to her.

[Miss Mary]

It would be #1 in my case! My husband drives me nuts when he says (after I've gone to the trouble to explain something, asking his opinion at the end):

"What was the question, again?"

To him it was all bla-bla-bla and a ~question~ at the end!

I never repeat my question either or if I actually have the patience to do so again, he then says - well then why didn't you say it so simply? LOL

Men!!!! We talk, they don't listen....I used to say silly things like - oh look, it's snowing (in July) or I just bought a fur coat yesterday (quite unlike me).......just to see if he was paying attention!

Mary

[JenBayles]

Yep - I just love it when I ask Dave a question and he just stares at the TV like a drooling idiot and acknowledges nothing. I'll shut up and just look at him. Sometimes it'll take a good 5 minutes before he wakes up and says, "What?! I'm listening! What?!" I tell myself, "Jen, it just ain't worth it. Put down the hammer and step out of the room..."

[alicia-w]

i think they're just incapable of operating on more than a couple of cylinders at once....

[MomH]

Ladies--you are missing a good thing here. Get out the tape recorder, start it, ask for something you want, give him a moment to answer, then ask, "Do you think that would be alright?" When he answeres yes to get you off his back---you got it made. If he argues later, you have it on tape. A couple of times of this and I bet he listens better. Be fair though. This cannot be used during his favorite TV program or if his favorite team is playing.

[JenBayles]

i think they're just incapable of operating on more than a couple of cylinders at once....

Oh yes! Even Dave admits he isn't capable of multi-tasking; however, I think he's just saying that to humor me into believing that just to skate out of doing extra work. Kinda like when we first got married back in the Dark Ages and he grudgingly took on a load of laundry. "Somehow" one of his red t-shirts ended up with my white delicates and they were permanently pinked. Methinks the man is smarter than he admits - royally screw up any household task and the wife will ban the man from it forever.