My H tries to hear me sometimes, but he will openly acknowledge not understanding at all. And he will say things like, "Well, why don't you just stop thinking about it?"

I don't know if you deal with depression, but I found this bloody brilliant, and it kind of gets at the idea of the obnoxiousness of people spewing random positivity:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co...t-two.html?m=1