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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At what point is someone considered a compulsive talker? I have a spouse who greets me with the verbal equivalent of a wall of text at the end of each day including very detailed things that no one else would probably care about that happened. Nothing can interrupt and it’s hard to defer to a quieter time (for instance when kids aren’t around asking for stuff). It’s intense and one-way, and sometimes gets retold a few times over the course of an evening or few days, and continues even when I say I’ve already heard the story. But it’s not all the time and only about a few subjects (work and news). I’ve been trying to understand if this is just an extreme form of venting or more disordered. [/quote]

OP here. This sounds reminiscent of what I’m hearing.  Especially the “very detailed things that no one else caree about that happened.”

Is your spouse employed and returning home with this impenetrable wall of words?  My relative does work full time and I should have said earlier she is very competent in multiple areas of life - professional, parenting, family, auto maintenance, appearance, home maintenance etc.

The one and only outlier area is this speech thing, which has crossed the line into pathological. [/quote]

Yes, exactly. Employed, did very well, very competent in most areas (and overall an enjoyable person!), but requires a lot of attention and support in this one area and it’s exhausting! I just always wonder if it’s a personality quirk or something more diagnosable  [/quote]

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