re: How many of you get the “you don’t listen to anything” complaint from your woman?

She just wants someone to listen while she vents, baw.

Women don't make any sense.

This week they want the paper towels put in a certain place in the pantry. Last week it was a different place and the week before that another place. Clearly none of those places are better than any others, otherwise eventually one of them would take precedence as the desired location for the paper towels. So to harp on about where they go is futile and not worth listening to. So, guess what? The paper towels are going to end up whereever I put them.

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She just wants someone to listen while she vents, baw.

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this would be fine if it's some rare thing

multiple times every day? figure out a way to release your tension individually. i'd tell that to any person, man or woman. also, know your audience. i'm an introverted, individualistic person. i try to solve my own problems. repeating them out loud won't solve anything (especially when the point isn't to fix the problem and it's just to talk about the problem)

Spoiler: half the time they don't even want you to listen.

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OTOH, anytime she starts a conversation about work I immediately tune it out. I've got enough problems with my o

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ESPECIALLY when it’s just bitch fest 2018 with no solution intended. Most women love to live in drama/anxiety. They don’t want to live in serenity by taking a few steps to get there. They want to stay at each other’s throat and come home crying about it. It’s vey hard for me to not check out of those conversations.

It’s when she is either in another room or upstairs and tries to have a conversation with me. Then she accuses me of not listening to her. That or when it takes her 20 minutes to tell a story because of all of the sidebars...

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can any OT women chime in and explain why they're irrationally focused on constantly talking about things out loud and small talk?

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This is one thing I’ll never understand. Most of the time when she gets pissed that I wasn’t listening, it’s about some bullshite that has zero impact on either of our lives, but she couldn’t stand not hearing herself talk.

My listening technique is pretty good but my subject matter retention not so much.

Mine will even double down telling me she just needs me to "listen" while she vents but gets pissed when I either don not respond or respond incorrectly.

It's easy to time a yapping dog completely out!

I’ll bite. I’m a female and I have the gift of gab. I’ll almost admit that this thread ruffled my colorful feathers just reading about how you guys so blatantly ignore your wives. You think it’s funny, and maybe it sometimes is, but you’re also admitting to a lack of respect for her.

In all fairness, it just depends on what your spouse’s love language is. If she does enjoy consoling in you, talking to you about her day, and you just repeatedly ignore everything that she has to say? I can see where that’s pretty hurtful.

I don’t drone on about every little thing to my husband because we are usually so busy between our jobs and the kids that the conversation is usually about that stuff. But what I do get irritated about is when I tell him important dates, events, or ask him to help me remember something for our house/kids/life and he doesn’t take the iniative to...then I get a little out of sorts. I equate that to someone who’s always late: your actions (or lack thereof) translate that you 1) don’t care about them 2) you think your time or mental energy is more important than the other persons. Boils down to a lack of respect, IMO.