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Old Apr 27, 2013, 04:08 PM
Bill3 Bill3 is offline
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Especially since I have to pretend to listen.
What makes you have to pretend to listen?

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but he holds it against me if I say so, and says it's rude not to listen.
Actually it is rude to talk endlessly about a topic that is of no interest to one's listener.

Speaking/listening is a mutual relationship. The speaker is not automatically in charge.

But the problem will continue until you find a way to assert yourself such that you can escape or he stops imposing himself on you. What can you do to help one or both of those possibilities actually happen?