tater03

Does anyone else's husband suffer from this selective hearing? I have just this past week asked my husband to please do three things and on all three things he has stated I didn't hear you ask me that. I just want to scream sometimes. I cannot help but think this is a cop out for something he don't want to hear or do.

draconis

I think it kind of goes both ways because my wife has sworn up and down she told me X and I just can't recall. Then again I can remember the time, date and location I told her Y and she doesn't remember me saying a word. We actually default to the parrots (KIDS) sometimes to find out what was said and when.

In general there are two types of people.

Magpies ~ They can start a project but as soon as something shiny catches their eye they forget about the project or even their train of thought.

Non-magpies ~ Ones that can break from something and keep going back to it a number of times.

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mamab

That's pretty interesting, Draconis, I've never heard that analogy before. I do personally believe that men are magpies, they are more easily distracted than most women.

draconis

Well, I have to say you are right. Fortune has it I am not a magpie. I own a business and the other partner in the business is a magpie, really bad. So I know how a shiny can make someone forget. Then again guys hate to be nagged on to. Seems they never forget the nagging, just what it was all about.

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katharina

Oh absolutely this is true... the selective hearing. Because I can say something VERY loudly from another room... no response, but if I'm talking in normal tones to my daughter from the same distance, it's heard. And say something about HIM, it's "I heard that!" but didn't hear a very loud something else five minutes earlier. Selective, yep.

draconis

Now come on ladies you have had your stint with filtered hearing too. I know with the wife unless she asks me what needs to be done if I ask or even email her it is forgotten.

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tammi

yes some of us do
mine is with my kids there hear what they want to hear lol
and so did my ex
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draconis

Yeah but that is normal what teen is know for being attentive?

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tammi

ok good point lol

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draconis

I think far and wide though men hear less well then women because more have or do things that can affect hearing.

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lovemywife

what sorry wasn't listening ?

yep I got that hearing problem too , gets me in trouble alot
my wife does the same thing just not as often

draconis

I think we all do it to a point. There is no helping that fact. I guess it is more of how we handle ourselves.

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riskey58

I believe every man has selective hearing. I think men are born with it.

tater03

Well my husband definently is the magpie. That is cute. I have never heard that one before. I will admit that I tend to not hear things on occasion but can honestly say not half as much as him.