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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a coworker like this.  Her entire world is her kids.  She really doesn't have hobbies or do anything (besides work) outside of them.  I just tend to steer convo into something else.  One kid is heavily involved in dance and they travel a ton.  So I try to steer the conversation in directions about their trips.  [/quote]

I could understand you complaining more than OP, who sees this woman once a week at yoga where she has 10 minutes to drone on about a subject that OP doesn't care about, and OP is completely free to sit on the other side of the room, or show up closer to the start of class, or leave in some headphones while she warms up her body for class.

I get why OP is annoyed but cannot imagine getting this worked up about someone she barely knows and only interacts with extremely briefly. I'd be more sympathetic if this was someone she couldn't avoid, but she 100% can.[/quote]

It is pretty easy to avoid someone who isn’t even your friend. Why go so early?

I have a friend who is a dentist and I have zero, maybe negative interest in her dentist stories. One of my husband’s friend’s wives is always talking about food, like all her weird eating restrictions from her quack functional medicine doctor. She could literally go on for hours about processed foods, sugar, allergies, etc. I always try to change the subject and she brings the subject back to food. She is also overweight. I have never met a more clueless person. I would rather listen to OP’s yoga person talking about her kid going to college. I actually would be mildly interested as I have a teen preparing to apply to college.[/quote]

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