How Can I Stop Being Annoying?

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Melissa would like to change the way she talks over people, especially her husband. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:11.0	Melissa, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call.
0:18.0	Listen, listening to you talk kind of goes back to the reason why I'm calling.
0:25.0	I can't hear it over and over. So there's there's a quality or a trait that I have that I'm really I've worked on for many years to get rid of or to figure out how to deal with it.
0:37.0	It's my mind races a lot. I'm just a very fast thinker. It's kind of the way I operate.
0:43.0	And so the two areas that it affects me mainly is liking communication. I really hate that when I get excitable or especially if it's I'm talking to somebody I have a tendency to over talk to interrupt.
1:01.0	I'll say this a lot to my husband. I'm not interrupting. It's just that I need to respond to what you're saying.
1:06.0	And so it's like I feel like I have to get it out. And and also that comes out to like when mainly with my husband like if we're interacting with each other and he's talking he's a slow talker.
1:19.0	And so I'll react to something that he says immediately and then he calls it interrupting which it is.
1:27.0	I have the solution. I have the solution.
1:36.0	You ready. Okay.
1:41.0	Ready. Called breathing. It's called breathing. And I'm not making a joke.
1:46.0	I'm not trying to be silly or flippant or superficial. I mean it.
1:51.0	Yeah. You do have to slow yourself down because it's better for you.
1:57.0	Much less the marriage. It's better for you to be able not to be so defensive as to jump in too soon.
2:07.0	To show that you do know something. You understand what I'm saying to show you know something or you're not a bad guy.
2:15.0	Your husband loves you. And he knows you're not perfect. And he still loves you.
2:21.0	That gets a wow, doesn't it? Yes. Wow. Okay. So what I want you to do.
2:28.0	You're doing it now. You're doing it now. You're doing it now.
2:33.0	Breathe from your diaphragm, which means your belly button has to come out. Inhale.
2:42.0	Three of your nose. Exhale. Three of your mouth. Breathe.
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