My wife has this problem. It's very tiring and draining for me at times.
Examples:
She starts off with "To make a long story short...". I tell her: "Honey, all of your stories are long and I like them to be very short. Just leave off 'To make a long story short' and get right to the point."
She answers yes/no questions with long-winded answers that make it very unclear whether it's yes or no.
She drifts WAY off topic very easily. We might be talking about some current topic and she'll go off with something like: "Oh, let me tell you about what happened when I was 7 years old and attending elementary school and we had this girl that lived next door that would always ...". It exhausts me when she does this.
She's very hard of hearing (has hearing aids in both ears) and even still she often doesn't clearly hear what the other person said and guesses at what they said. Then replies with something completely unrelated.
My experience: " should we buy eggs? " The response will come with a detailed explanation of what were the last 20 eggs used for, and the probability that more are needed, pondered by the probability of going in the supermarket in the next days... In the middle of the dissertation I would interrupt with "honey, I just need to know if we need to buy." Final reply "OF COURSE WE NEED, HAVEN'T YOU HEARD ME?! I EXPLAINED THAT PRETTY CLEARLY"... yeah...
Examples:
She starts off with "To make a long story short...". I tell her: "Honey, all of your stories are long and I like them to be very short. Just leave off 'To make a long story short' and get right to the point."
She answers yes/no questions with long-winded answers that make it very unclear whether it's yes or no.
She drifts WAY off topic very easily. We might be talking about some current topic and she'll go off with something like: "Oh, let me tell you about what happened when I was 7 years old and attending elementary school and we had this girl that lived next door that would always ...". It exhausts me when she does this.
She's very hard of hearing (has hearing aids in both ears) and even still she often doesn't clearly hear what the other person said and guesses at what they said. Then replies with something completely unrelated.