I tell the woman not to talk - so I don't expect or need a response. The woman's responses even where she was interested were not useful by any stretch of the imagination, so not having a response is certainly no worse and often better for me.
And I have told her I did not care whether she wanted to hear about something, I wanted to talk about it. Plus I reminded her she had said one could talk about anything and that one could talk about it as long as one wanted. So she was either a liar or was changing the rules in the middle of the stream - and I was not going to have that.