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[quote=Anonymous]I am a very impatient person. I really need to change this, especially with my husband. I have a lot of bad habits, the worst one is cutting him off when he’s in the middle of saying something I don’t want to take the time to hear.  He keeps telling me to just be better and I try but it doesn’t stick.

Anyone have more concrete strategies?

Examples of when this happens:
1. My husband is really smart but he takes a long time to articulate what he wants to say. He will call me on the phone or call my name if we’re in person, then pause while he figures out what he wants to say next. It drives me nuts. So I’ll say, call me when you’re ready to talk, which irritates him.
2. He’ll start to say a joke or a story that I feel isn’t the right time. Other day at a kids’ doctor’s appointment, he started to go on a familiar tangent, that I knew would be long, and I said, ok, but back to [our child].
3. I want to know one piece of information, let’s say, what time is practices over? He will start by telling me yesterday’s practice was at x time, but then there was an email, blah blah. I don’t want all that, I just need one piece of information.
Advice, pls on what I can do on my end to manage my annoyed reaction to this. [/quote]

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