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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe you just weren’t this prone to jealousy before?[/quote]

Who's jealous? It's just shallow and boring conversation. Shallow and boring is fine among professional work associates but family are only together a couple of times a year and THIS is the most spirited dialogue now? It's sad.[/quote]

[b]How is discussing your big family vacation "shallow and boring"?[/b]  Many people plan for years for a big trip.  Even though we take a few a year, most are planned for several years, as we research where we want to go and plan the right itinerary to see our top sights.  
I'm sure most would rather hear about that than the taxi service I run starting at 2:45pm until 10pm each day for our kids and their activities (which are the same each year, just the next level of whatever sport/clubs/etc).  Our daily lives are fairly routine---I don't want to hear about that from most people---I'd rather hear about their trip to Japan or Austria or wherever
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Exactly. It is not shallow or boring. I think some PPs would prefer their family members lie about what they do for fun. It's as if they want to lead meaningless, boring lives in front of a TV, with a beer can, just so they were "just like the rest of us." That's depressing, to say the least.[/quote]

In everyday conversation, there are topics that may interest you more than others. I would rather hear about your upcoming travel plans than listen to the person about abortion or tariffs. It is not because I do not care about these topics either but I may not agree but don’t want to get into a debate about politics or Gaza where someone may actually get really upset.

Travel is probably the safest topic of conversation for any UMC adult. People talk about work, trips, books, current events, kids, etc As someone posted above, some topic is bound to sound braggy to someone. [/quote]

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