Mumbly DH!

[Caluse]

I am really fed up with my DH mumbling all the time. He didn’t used to at all but then he started doing it and in recent years it's got worse to the point where now it can be so bad that I can’t understand him at all! The children also say they struggle to understand him at times. He will join all his words together and also omit some syllables, so it can be really hard to know what he is saying and I’m fed up of it!
 
For example, today he was telling me about a workshop on rivers he took DS to and he said “they told us about purbleanpurble” and when I queried, he said it again but slower: purble a npurble
 
Turns out he thought he was saying permeable and impermeable!

It doesn't help that he also doesn't say what he's referring to, in this case rocks but he doesn't give any context.
 
This is an extreme example but it is constant and I am fed up of having to ask him what he has said especially as he often doesn’t repeat the words but starts rambling on about something related (we suspect he has ADHD, he struggles to find a point let alone stick to one).
 
I don’t know why I’m posting – solidarity? Help with getting him to speak more clearly?

It's driving me so mad!

[MWNA]

Maybe record him and play it back so he can hear how unintelligible he is.

And / or say "I'm not going to ask you to repeat yourself anymore. If I can't understand you, I'm just going to ignore you".

[twilightcafe]

Yanbu
Got fed up with trying to decipher DH's mumbles. I ignore them now.

[NC03]

I would say you need to speak more clearly and if he can't then he needs to go to the doctors as there's a speech issue

[Caluse]

He's just done it again! Taxull benfits, when he meant taxable benefits.

The problem with ignoring him is I want him to talk to me more as he's got into a habit of not having conversations with me, just monologuing information at me, so if I ignore him we will have even less conversation.

[SwordToFlamethrower]

He needs to see his GP. It isn't neurodiversity if this is a new thing though. Could be a brain disease.

[Caluse]

@SwordToFlamethrower

He needs to see his GP. It isn't neurodiversity if this is a new thing though. Could be a brain disease.

He doesn't do it on work calls, I hear him on those and he's very clear to the point of overly loud. It's worth me that he mumbles.

[Beamur]

I have one of these too. Starts a conversation without introducing a topic or reference, then talks really quietly and sometimes puts his hand in front of his mouth too.
What makes it really infuriating is I'm quite deaf and constantly have to ask him to repeat himself (and he gets annoyed with me!)
Solidarity.