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Now, today's first story comes from pretend

Dragonfly 68 who says, am I the arseal for not translating for my wife when she hasn't put

any effort into learning sign language? My 33 male father is death. Because of this, I've been

signing for as long as I can remember. My wife 33

female is hearing and has never put much effort into learning ASL beyond a few basic signs. This

has never bothered me, but it does make it difficult when we visit family since I basically

have to play translator if she and my dad want to have conversations.

And I do it to facilitate a bond between them.

About two months ago, I learned of an opportunity at the local college in our city, where volunteer native speakers could come converse with the students in the advanced ASL courses.

It was going to be a monthly thing in order to track the student's progress.

I jumped as a chance to help out. I'm very passionate about people learning ASL.

One of the other volunteers that was a non-verbal man, Alex 29 male, who I found an easy

camaraderie with. We exchanged numbers and became fast friends. We began hanging out and

during the time we would spend at my place, I wouldn't translate even if my wife was in the

room, other than their introductions and small talk, because Alex never requested I do so.

After a few weeks of this, my wife brought it up as something that was bothering her.

She said she felt left out and like Alex and I were keeping secrets.

I politely apologized and went on to have a discussion with Alex about this whole thing.

He said he felt it was rude that my wife never even as much made an effort to learn ASL, especially since I had very

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