I feel ya! (And I meant it was embarrassing for the ******* loudmouths -- not the folks with someone who is deaf or hard of hearing.) I have to repeat everything I say to GC three times, then, on the third (and loudest) time I say it he says to me " Well, you don't have to yell at me!"You are correct, it is hard. But I bet those who love you don't mind one bit. I'd yell at GC all day long if that's what it took ...
One of the problems with my marriage recently was that she was sick of me not listening to her. She has this very soft voice and it tapers off as and gets lower as she speaks, which makes it extremely difficult for me to hear everything. She would get sick of me asking to repeat herself and would either roll her eyes when she had to say it 2 or 3 more times or just flat tell me forget it. I got tired of being treated like crap because of my hearing and just started nodding my head and going uhh huhh.
If you don't have hearing loss it's really hard to understand it. She has ears like a bat and actually thought I had "selective" hearing loss, at times my tinnitus drops enough that I can hear a little better. That was one of the things we had to work on in counseling. She's a lot better at understanding my hearing problems now but I worry about it every time I have to ask her what she just said even when I'm looking her straight in the eye. It's not that I'm too proud to get hearing aids it's the price of the things. You know it's bad when your teenage kid is always asking ou turn the volume down because it's too loud.
And I will pm the link to him just for you. Seriously though try to remember that he doesn't do it because he want's to annoy you or is ignoring you. I try really hard to listen to what people say and it's a little easier when I can see them talking, in meetings it looks like I'm at wimbledon as someone starts speaking I have to snap my head around to look at them while they talk or I miss the beginning of what they're saying.
