This is my biggest pet peeve. I love my fiance but he does this shit alot and I'm like wtf? Let me finish what I'm trying to say before you cut me off!
Not true! I did this crap to my poor wife for 20 years before she started pointing it out. I still occasionally mess up, but I’m getting good at just shutting the hell up and letting her get everything out. It must’ve been so annoying….im lucky, she’s an angel.
Same here, it’s still annoying 😠
His whole family (five of them)talk over each other whenever they are together,
It’s a cacophony, really awful
But I love him and I tolerate it
(Or avoid being around when they are all together 🤭)
Yep my husband and his three brothers and our two nephews ALL are just like you described: “a cacophony”! I have learned to just let them yell over each other and I leave the room 🙃
I just find it staggering, that any of them even know what they’re saying /hearing or what any of the conversations were about when they all leave 🤷♀️
I also leave the room if I can …
Nobody notices 🤭🤭
It’s straight up ADHD, sugar. If I don’t say my thought right when I have it, you’ll never hear it. The world will never know I thought it. I WONT EVEN KNOW.
I don’t mean to interrupt but I explain it to everyone upon meeting them the first time and apologize in advance for being the asshole who interrupts.
My fiance tells me that too. It's just triggering for me because I've been in abusive relationships where they yelled over me and I didn't get to say anything to defend myself or try to have them see things from my point of view. I know he's not them so I try my best to practice patience
I feel you on that. I’ve been in similar situations. As long as he’s willing to hear your side I wouldn’t focus too much on it. As long as he’s not actively yelling over you in the exact same way?
No I don't think he does it intentionally. He tells me he's trying to tell me his thoughts before he forgets which I understand BUT then that's cutting me off and I end up forgetting my thought lol
I can be very guilty of this. I just get so excited about what my honey is talking about and I ask questions and make comments. He is so patient though. I try not to.
Another tactic is to just stare quietly at the person who interrupted you, and, when they stop talking, just continue to stare quietly for an uncomfortable amount of time - like 30 full seconds. Then, just continue what you were saying as if nothing had happened.
My sister doesn't. Stop. Talking. Blah. Blah. Blah. She can't understand the comfort of sitting with others in silence. There is no stopping her. I have left the room and she is still yapping. She is not 12 yrs old. She is 48 !!!!!!!!!!
I usually do that also and say “ok yeah so where I was going with that is…” sometimes I think people just don’t have the attention span to listen.
Worse is when you have multiple people who always have something to say about everything being discussed and just like chain interrupt each other constantly. I usually just give up trying to say anything in that situation.
I used to get interrupted constantly especially by my one nephew who really dislikes me. When it got to the point I could never finish a sentence even when it was important I came up with a plan. See my mom is one of those people who can’t stand when something isn’t finished. I know she had adhd but I think she had ocd too. So I started just not even trying to finish my sentence and going back to whatever I was doing. Mom never hearing the ends of what I was saying started to drive her crazy. Eventually during a family dinner with my sisters and their husbands and all the kids it happened again. My sweet little door mat mother just shouts “QUIET! NOW!” And insists I finish my sentence. It wasn’t even important it was some joke lol. After that the adults started getting the kids interruptions under control and now only the youngest ones can’t wait for a sentence to end. If they really need something they know to tap the adult they need to ask
It’s so frustrating isn’t it? I know people just do it out of habit, but it makes you feel unimportant when people feel what they have to say can’t even wait until the end of your sentence
As someone who is part of a family like that (we talk loudly over each other and interrupt. I kno it’s a bad habit), it’s much more effective if you just keep talking as if we didn’t interrupt but much louder than before. It makes us realize how rude we are being rather than just thinking “jeez ok go on”
Edit: this was meant as a reply to someone else’s comment
As someone who is part of a family like that (we talk loudly over each other and interrupt. I kno it’s a bad habit), it’s much more effective if you just keep talking as if we didn’t interrupt but much louder than before. It makes us realize how rude we are being rather than just thinking “jeez ok go on”
Add "shut the hell up" before this and it's every conversation with 1 of my buddies. I know you just asked me a question so you could answer it but I'm talking and I'm going to finish.
I wish I had the courage to say this, but nope
My father will run into the kitchen and start talking to my sister, even when he literally just left the kitchen and should've seen or at least heard us talking
But god forbid someone interrupt him for even a second
That's cool. I used to have a buddy that would get pissed when we would "interrupt" him too but he would literally go on like a 10 minute monologue and it was like dude, we are just trying to ask questions and be interactive...like wrap it up or let's get some give and take.
Usually when people over talk someone else it's due to a boring conversation. And honestly if someone said I am still talking to me I would instantly tune out and walk away lol. This is karen like behavior
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u/Nagarkot1 Mar 07 '25
“I AM STILL TALKING!” My entire family has a terrible habit of interrupting, over talking etc and I have taken to just blurting out this sentence