Dear Anita:

I can’t remember the specifics I’m afraid – I think one example was me telling a story of something at work – nothing too long or detailed, and another might have been to do with a couple of taxi rides I’d had to take that day. It just tends to be normal, conversational stuff – he says I take too long to “tell stories” & lets me know how he would have told something, which is basically in one short, sharp sentence. I’ve tried to explain that I’m not him, and we all talk differently, but to no avail. He will happily talk on and on about his work, which is his passion, to me, and I sometimes wonder how he would feel if I implied I was bored, or brought to his attention that he was repeating something he’d already talked about, but that’s just not me. 

Katie