I, a 42-year-old man, am getting frustrated with my wife's, who's 37, phone habits.

I am a 42-year-old man, and my wife, who is 37, has always been a very chatty woman.

She's pretty much on the phone all day with her sister-in-law, her friends, family members, etc.

She hangs up with one, and she either calls another one or another one calls her.

This hasn't bothered me. I'm not home all day, but recently it started to interfere with the time

we spend together. I come down to breakfast and she's on the phone. Literally the entire time I'm

sitting there, she's gossiping on the phone with someone that used to be our

time to talk in the morning but now she sits there and talks to other people I brought

this up to her and she simply said but she works that's the only time I have to speak to her

yeah but what about me this has also extended to dinner time. I arrive home. She'll have this big dinner

cooked and just as we're sitting down to eat, her phone will ring. She'll tell me and the kids to go

ahead and eat. Pick it up, walk away from the dinner table and start talking. In the past, if I got a

work call during dinner, she would chastise me for it.

You can call them back. This is dinner time. They need to understand. You're with your family. You're not taking that call now. This weekend, we were supposed to go out for dinner on Sunday night. She got a call from one of her friends as we were getting ready to leave, which she just kept prolonging. I kept pointing to my watch

making the rapid up sign of my hands

and she kept swatting the air getting ready to leave, which she just kept prolonging. I kept pointing to my watch, making the rapid-up sign with my hands,

and she kept swatting the air, telling me to leave her alone.

Two hours passed when we were supposed to leave,

she finally got off the phone with Dana.

At which point, she said,

Uh, it's really too late to go out now. I'm tired. Let's just do

leftovers. When I kept slamming cabinets and huffing at her, she said, wow, you've got a hair

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