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Staying Connected with Assistive Technology for Hearing Loss: Meet @julieo4 Feb 21, 2022 | By Teresa, Volunteer Mentor (@hopeful33250)Comment receiving replies
LOL. I'm going through something similar with my husband of 54 years! He's tolerated my hearing loss since we met in our 20s. I know he's gotten frustrated, but it always passed when we were able to talk about it. Now his hearing is diminishing. I have to work really hard to be patient with him. I realize how patient he has been all these years with me. Now, if I can just get him in to see an audiologist we'll be 'good'.
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I think some of that kind of thing is a "spousal" issue. My wife (of 45 years) has (I think) good hearing, but she frequently fails to hear me. I get the feeling that she hears me but her head hears "Oh - that's just Jim talking". Sort of a passive dismissal thing. Or maybe it is just old people who are unable to deal more than one thought at at time.
But the same thing in reverse - I can't hear her in the usual situations like when she is in a different room, or facing the wall, or washing dishes etc. I have given up asking her not to do that because it just causes trouble. Sometimes when she says something that I didn't hear and I ask her to repeat she replies "Oh, I was talking to myself" or "I was talking to the dog". - Maybe the dog was talking to her and I just didn't hear it. Who knows?