Please help me find kind words that will work.
I've recently moved to a new town and started socializing with a gal I met. She is smart, educated, reads the news, has interests similar to mine (museums, etc) but she goes on and on about her 2 year old granddaughter. She will get a grandson in a few months and I assume she'll talk about him, too.
She talks about which colors the girl knows the words for, how high she can count. I'm happy she has so much love for this girl and love in her life.
I've asked her to please talk less about the girl. She tried for awhile but went back to looooong descriptions about the details on this girl.
She used to do lots of volunteer work with small children so I think she is just more interested in them than I am. (The part of my volunteer work with children were with teen girls.)
Are there some kind words you can offer to help me get her to cut down on the amount of grandchild talk? Otherwise, I'm going to have to exit this budding friendship.
Thanks!
I've recently moved to a new town and started socializing with a gal I met. She is smart, educated, reads the news, has interests similar to mine (museums, etc) but she goes on and on about her 2 year old granddaughter. She will get a grandson in a few months and I assume she'll talk about him, too.
She talks about which colors the girl knows the words for, how high she can count. I'm happy she has so much love for this girl and love in her life.
I've asked her to please talk less about the girl. She tried for awhile but went back to looooong descriptions about the details on this girl.
She used to do lots of volunteer work with small children so I think she is just more interested in them than I am. (The part of my volunteer work with children were with teen girls.)
Are there some kind words you can offer to help me get her to cut down on the amount of grandchild talk? Otherwise, I'm going to have to exit this budding friendship.
Thanks!