Dear Eric: I have been married to a wonderful woman for many years. She is educated and has many years of practical experience. But if there is anything that makes me “bite the bullet” it’s her interruptions mid-delivery from me. I have dared to call her out for interrupting me and she will say I’m taking too long to make a point, even in a short first sentence (because she knows what I am going to say anyway).

I am also educated (engineering) with many years of hands-on and practical experience. My conversational practice is different. I wait things out, actively listening, and by the time the person is done I’ve dismissed what I was going to say lest I have to go back to an earlier point where that person took the conversation and it has changed context.

I don’t interrupt. I will rais

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