Different communication styles.

[LuckyCharms]

I tend to be very quick, pointed and direct when communicating.

My wife is kind of the opposite. She communicates probably better than I do, but she does it in a different way.

She's more introspective than I am, and she measures her words and asks a lot of questions. She has to ask a lot of questions to get to her point.

This causes some light-hearted conflict. We are both aware of this conflict, and we laugh about it.

Here's what happens: She asks me random questions out of the blue about something she is thinking about. I'll be thinking about something entirely different, and she will suddenly ask me some random question...and I will have no fucking idea what she is talking about.

Because of all of this, when we were coming home from my doctor's appointment yesterday, we both got laughing so hard that I had to pull the car over on a busy road because we both had tears running down our face laughing, and I was unable to drive.

Let me see if I can put this into words to properly convey what I'm talking about:

First of all, her name is Deborah. Pronounced DEB-RAH. She's Polish. Her Polish grandfather used to pronounce it the Polish way...DebORA. Like...with the accent on the last syllable.

So we are driving home, and she suddenly asks me something like:

Did you take care of that thing?

Whenever she does this, the hairs on my forearm stand up...because I have no fucking idea what she is asking me.

So I just threw my hands up in the air like I always do and said "I...I have no fucking idea what you are talking about".

Her: Rolls her eyes..."It's a simple question...that thing...did you take care of it? That thing we were talking about"?

Me: Wut?

Her: DO YOU NOT HEAR ME, OR ARE YOU JUST NOT LISTENING?

Me: Use your words and tell me what you are talking about. I'm not a mind reader.

Her: You're EXACTLY like my father. Exactly! You don't listen!

Me: I heard you, I just don't know what the fuck you are asking me.

Her: It's a simple question.

Me: Speak English.

Her: I AM SPEAKING ENGLISH. IT'S A SIMPLE QUESTION.

Then, with a Polish accent, I looked at her and said "Me no speak your language, DebORA".

She looked at me for a second, pissed off, and then burst out laughing. Then I got laughing. Then we started screaming laughing. You kind of had to be there, and I'm probably not explaining this well to convey what happened...but anyway, I had to pull over.

I guess what i am trying to say is...we are in a constant state of laughter. Sometimes I can't believe how much laughter is in this house...it's kind of remarkable. Sincere, big laughs.

So, go have a laugh today. It makes everything better.