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Especially since I have to pretend to listen.
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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.
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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?