Ha ha. My spell checker changed tinae to Tina’s!

I've read a couple articles about the connection between hearing loss and dementia, and then just today read another article about a connection between loneliness and dementia. All of these thought the real culprit is social isolation. Makes sense, people with hearing loss get isolated, just like you've been talking about. Bless him, my husband was super supportive but wow, my brother was completely convinced that I couldn't hear him because I didn't want to or that I wasn't paying attention. At the time, I just retreated more in frustration. But after years with hearing loss, I can say that paying attention to understand speech is a huge effort, and it's exhausting. Not sure what you can say to your husband about that, maybe our wonderful "mentor" folks can come up with links to articles about the effort it takes to understand speech when you can't hear.
So everyboady keep posting so we don't get isolated, and then get dementia!! Yuck.