Do you hate repeating yourself?

yeah that drives me out of my mind too. if they ask me to repeat what i said i respond with "well if it wasn't important enough to you to pay attention the first time im not repeating myself." and then i go about my business. i don't have the time nor the patience to deal with people like that.

Hi highflyingxangle, I do hate doing that also, that is why most of the time when I am talking to a friend and I've observed that they are not interested or listening at all, I will just stop and if they will ask me again, I will be confronting them that I tried to share but they are not paying attention..For me it is really rude, since when someone is talking to me, I have all my attention. ANyway, different attitude of different people..

Hi angel, [i]I have a very close friend who is like that...I mean she can't just concentrate and will always asked me to repeat..We are very close so more often, she will get a sermon from me...LOL! I hate it, it's okay if there are unavoidable circumstances like she got a phone call or while waling we met a friend but when only the two of us and her attention will be diverted to anything she will recall and will not pay attention to what I am saying, I really hate to narrate again and will always tell her, if you will still not listen, I will not talk again![/i]

hello, i can feel that sentiments LOL seriously i do feel irritated if somebody keeps asking me the same question over and over again and you can tell that the person is not really listening at all. i have this friend who will ask me to teach her something and i will always help her but i have to repeat it for the nth time and she will only get it when i am showing exasperation LOL btw, i do sometimes do it as well specially with my hubby coz sometimes i am way too stress and he will talk to me and i will just say Uhuh! and he will just shut up and i will ask him why and he will tell me i am not listening at all and if i say i do he will ask me to repeat word by word LOL anyway, he does that as well specially if i am asking too much question and if he shows irritation i will tell him it is me who should be more irritated coz he is not listening at all haha. anyway, i am not sure if people do it on purpose or if they really dont understand or hear you well, either way it gets in to my nerves if i am not in the mood. takecare

It really agitates me when someone tells me to repeat what I was saying.It signifies that the person was not paying much attention to what you were saying though I could make an exception if I was talking to a person who is far away or on the mobile phone with a bad reception.Otherwise I just give up as it really bothers me.

I tend to be very tolerant and do not become easily Iritated if I'm asked to repeat myself. I work with young children and they often need things repeated (often reformulated or expressed using more simple language) so I tend to feel perfectly happy unless I sense that someone is purposefully putting up communication barriers. I think this is partly because I know what it is like to be on the receiving end of anger and impatience. I am profoundly deaf in one ear so rely on the other completely. I am not able to use a hearing aid since I have no hearing at all in the damaged ear. Most of the time people are unaware of this impairment because you can hear pretty well with one ear. But in noisy environments I can really find it tough. I had a partner who found it incredibly irritating if I asked him to repeat anything. He would get very angry and say it was unfair of me to expect him to repeat himself. He would also refuse to help me out by sitting on my good side if he didn't fancy the view. I began pretending I had heard him when I hadn't just to avoid feeling belittled and humiliated. He once had a good whinge about how horrible it was for him when we were on a train...I'll never forget the shocked expression of the man sat opposite us. I cannot put into words how hurt my partners attitude made me feel; my feelings clearly mattered far less to him than the inconvenience of repeating himself. I wonder if he was to experience hearing loss if his attitude would change? I think if someone Is clearly ignoring you intentionally, or refusing to pay attention, then there are some grounds for annoyance. But why begrudge someone a little extra effort in communication when the person appreciates and values your conversation?

Oh, how I hate repeating myself to someone who could care less what I am saying. When I realize someone is not listening to me, I simply tell them that when they want to hear what I have to say they can let me know, otherwise I have more important matters to attend to. Sometimes this will get their attention, sometimes it just ticks them off, but at least I get my point across about being ignored. Another thing that drives me insane is when someone asks me to pass along a message that they know the other person doesn't want to hear. I've gotten to the point where I say, "Do you see messenger service written across my forehead?" Then I tell them, if they want so and so to know about this, that or the other, they can be the messenger and keep me out of the loop. I look at it as a waste of my time rather than letting it upset me. And if I don't what my time wasted then I refuse to participate in one-sided conversations.

I hate repeating myself, but i aways find myself doing so espeically with my partner becuse he just doesn't listen properly first time! If someone is deliberately not listening i will refuse to repeat.

Sure do! It's kind of major rude when someone's talking and the other person can't be bothered to listen. Not as if talking takes so long that the other person should get bored. If it happened to me in public, I'd just walk away from the person.

I've always hated repeating myself. I think that what gets my goat is when I know that the person I was talking to is intelligent, does not have a hearing problem, and there was no outside noise interference that prevented them from hearing what I was saying. I would rather them stop and tell me that they weren't following and either ask me to start over or just say that maybe they have other things on their minds and maybe the talk can be held at another time. DCMerkle

You said it. I really hate repeating myself especially when I'm saying something important. Grrr.. It's really frustrating to repeat all the important things you want that person to remember or understand. Sometimes, I don't try repeating it but if what I'm saying should be repeated I inhaled very deeply before I repeat myself. Grrr..

I'm bad when it comes to talking or explaining something. I'm not that organize with my sentences, impromptu is not going to work with me. hehehe.. I sometimes extend my explanation too much, realizing that I'm just repeating myself. hehehe..

I hate repeating myself too.In my family,i'm known not to repeat myself so everyone listens carefully.Theres a trick in getting peoples undivided attention.Sometimes it helps to lower your voice so the other person really has to keep his ears open.It prevents any possible distraction.I know it seems like a complete waste of time and energy to have to repeat the whole of what you were saying again especially if its a long story!

I too hate repeating myself.If i am convinced that he/she is not listening to me and then asks me to repeat I`ll say,"It seems u are not interested in what i`m speaking "so let me stop.Then whether to repeat or not depends on what he/she tells,,and i hope they wud listen the next time,but if not i`ll stop..thats it

it is such when i have to repeat for more than once or twice. otherwise it is ok for me. it has happened many time. I try to keep my cool. but not always i can keep this cool. i get irritated.

I absolutely hate repeating myself. I understand hearing loss but please, do I have to repeat myself three times and each time get louder each time I repeat it? Sometimes I wish I would just give up on whatever I'm saying and just leave it be. But I'm too bloody nice for my own bloody good.

I think I posted a rant about this. I hate repeating myself also especially if the one I'm repeating it to isn't really paying attention. It's frustrating and exhausting and annoying on my part to be repeating what I've just said. There are times I feel cool about it and just repeat it but most of the time, I can get so annoyed that it's written all over my face already.

Oh it drives me crazy when I have to repeat myself. My kids are bad about not listening to me. I have to do the same thing, stop and ask did you hear me. they say yes, I say ok, what did I say. what really gets me going is when they repeat the exact same thing I said, and they just ignore me asking them to do it by sitting there.

for me sometime i don't care about it, i will repeat what i say if the person don't hear what i am talking about, but if the person still cannot get what i say after say it for more then 3 times then i will get so boring to say it again. Also i will easy to get mad if the time is i am busy then the people don't listen it carefully, for me that a waste of time, i will take time and telling the person soon or latter if it not so important.

I can't stand that! It bothers me to no end.