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[quote=Anonymous]One thing you need to do is sit down and try to have a mutually empathetic discussion. You have to acknowledge that she doesn't like to wear the hearing aids and has good reasons for her choice. You can offer to continue to help find better solutions if she wishes. But she has to accept what this means for household communication and mutual comfort levels with sound. She has to acknowledge that your attempts to be heard are neither mumbling nor "shouting at her." You feel unwarranted blame when she phrases it that way, and it is not appropriate for her to react that way. You often will either be not loud enough or too loud as you try to be heard by a person not wearing hearing aids, and it is situational so not easy to get right every time. She cannot keep yelling at you for "mumbling" or "yelling." She needs to acknowledge that you are doing your best to be heard, just as she is doing her best to hear.[/quote]
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