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Quiet!

Bookworm

Is it just me or does anybody else just want to shout, Shut up'! I'm staying at my mum's for the night, so say, for a bit of peace and quiet but she just talks and talks.... I'm not having the best times at the moment and all I want is quiet and to shout, ' shut up'! I am the sort of person that likes peace and quiet anyway and I thought coming to my mum's she might understand but she doesn't, is it just me or do others feel liķe this? I feel really awful and disrespectful but I just want some quiet to get my thoughts together but it seems at the moment I don't have anywhere I can go to do this. I'm beginning to understand people that want to go 'off grid'.

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  • There you go, just wear some noise cancelling headphones while your mums chatting away and all will be resolved RoflRofl I am joking (just in case anyone thought I was being serious). On a serious note though I totally understand what you mean about the frustration of trying to get some quiet time while all someone else wants to do is talk, a lot! I like a lot ‘daydreaming’ time which needs to be quiet otherwise I can’t focus my thoughts. My husband has a habit of talking far too much for so long that by the time he eventually finishes I’ve usually completely zoned out and have no clue what he’s been saying. Hence me not being aware of many things that he says he’s told me. He also has a really bad habit of saying “right I’ll get to the point” but then half an hour of him talking later, he still hasn’t got to the point! Oh and he starts bombarding me with information or asking me important questions at times when I really can’t be dealing with it like when I’ve just woken up or when I’ve just walked in the front door or when I’m trying to concentrate on something! Is your mum still talking? How come you went to your mums for peace and quiet?

  • in reply to Kitsune

    I know, right? why did I come here? just to be somewhere different maybe away from what's happening? I don't know maybe I just thought she'd respect my need for quiet? But I'm selfish and didn't account for the fact she's old and lonely. Makes me realise you can't run away..

  • in reply to Bookworm

    I had the same problem when I invited my mum to spend the weekend at my place. I hadn't registered how much time my better half and I spend in companionable silence (we tend to talk when we actually have something to say!)  until I endured 3 days of relentless chatter. She says it's because she lives alone. Trouble is, I just don't do small talk. Probably the thousand-yard stare after 2 solid hours of chatter gave it away.

    In the end, I had to invent tasks to do - "just got to put new sheets on the bed" - so that I could leave the room and not have to talk or listen for 10 minutes!

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