How I long for a good conversation! I think two questions posed by my OH today sum up the standard of our conversation nowadays : How old am I and when am I going to die? Did you ever go to school? ( I was a teacher!!). Other times I am trying to be 3 steps ahead of him to understand what he is trying to say. So sad as he was always such an excellent conversationalist and taught me lots!
Now I am missing having any quality conversations. When I am on the phone he will follow me and listen in or will challenge why I have been so long. I am also on tenterhooks as he has also walked off out of the house several times while I have been on the phone to a friend (he has a very poor sense of direction and so I need to follow).
If a family member has phoned I need to make sure they speak to him. While I speak to them he will contradict and argue with anything I am saying. Which is the same when we are chatting on a walk with one of them or a friend. It is also a challenge to keep him involved in the conversation otherwise he becomes very despondent!
He has come to hate Zoom after using it only a couple of times early in the year due to not understanding it. He will not let me use it without coming into the room and interfering with comments or again threatening to go out for a walk.
Hopefully when life is not restricted by Covid there will be a way round this and the chance to have a decent conversation with family or friends will be a possiblity!
Now I am missing having any quality conversations. When I am on the phone he will follow me and listen in or will challenge why I have been so long. I am also on tenterhooks as he has also walked off out of the house several times while I have been on the phone to a friend (he has a very poor sense of direction and so I need to follow).
If a family member has phoned I need to make sure they speak to him. While I speak to them he will contradict and argue with anything I am saying. Which is the same when we are chatting on a walk with one of them or a friend. It is also a challenge to keep him involved in the conversation otherwise he becomes very despondent!
He has come to hate Zoom after using it only a couple of times early in the year due to not understanding it. He will not let me use it without coming into the room and interfering with comments or again threatening to go out for a walk.
Hopefully when life is not restricted by Covid there will be a way round this and the chance to have a decent conversation with family or friends will be a possiblity!