STOP TALKING SO MUCH!!

I'm sure we all know people who talk too much but how do you handle it? Do you just tune them out or what? I guess, I'm not someone who is shy and quiet but not a motor mouth either. But there are some friends and relatives I know that it’s really get hard to get in a word when speaking with them. When hanging out and chatting with them there are times I feel like yelling, "Will you please JUST SHUT UP!”

Example 1: A relative: She will give you every single little detail on the most mundane things or will tell you things that you already know how to do. She talks and talks and talks and talks..... You can't break in to give your opinion. Oh gosh! Unbelievable! For instance, she can't just say there was a rude customer in front of her at the grocery store. She'll tell you just about everything that led up to her being in the grocery store-the time she woke up this morning, how she couldn't find her shoes, etc. Twenty minutes later she'll finally get to the story about the rude customer! And this is not only this, most of these stories are repetitive and you have already heard them several times and she is insisting on her ideas again and again…

Example 2: A girl friend: She'll call me up and starts talking about HER problems right away with barely asking me how I am doing. Thirty minutes to an hour later, after her lips are starting to turn blue, she ask to see how I'm doing, lol. Furthermore, she is a narcissist. Everything is about her and how great she is or great people think she is and lablala... . She is rather “boring and self-absorbed”.

I do like these people but gosh they are really annoying! All I feel like I ever say is "Yeah, uh-huh, ok" etc. I mean occasionally I get a few words in, hehe. How do you handle these talkative people?

M.M