How can I address a friend's constant interrupting without harming our friendship?

[PettyMare]

Is there a way to diplomatically let a friend know that her relentless interrupting is really annoying but remain friends?

We're currently away together and whilst it's a habit I've noticed for years, it's particularly irritating right now.

Friend usually visits for 2-3 days, other family around which helps lesson the impact, but now with just us 2, it's grating.

I can be talking about an experience at work, shopping or anything really, but she talks over me to tell me about her own experience of said topic. I'm not a wallflower but I do draw the line at talking over her to make my original point.

Or do I just let it go for the sake of a decades long friendship.

Ever thought that the long drawn out story you’re telling was so dull that your colleague interrupted to shut you up?
The last thing you should do is start it again!

Oh god, this can be me - I am an interrupter and it just literally bursts out of me. I am aware of it and hate it - so I do own it. I have lately come to realise I am probably a bit ADHD due to this and other traits and while that's no excuse, it is an explanation for my outbursts. Your friend might already be aware she does this. FWIW, I wouldn't take offence at being gently told about it.

I love that I have learned about cooperative overlappers. This is definitely me. I also admit that I find it hard to stay engaged with long stories, I’m used to a much more back and forth conversation style and find sitting in silence listening for too long quite uncomfortable, so I probably do ‘cooperatively overlap’ a lot. I love that there is a term for it and I feel seen!

Yes I have a friend like this. I try and be understanding because she lives alone and as we are now both retired she doesn’t see many people.
However I actually timed her once and after 35 minutes she was still talking, at which point I interrupted her. She then snapped at me ‘I was talking’.
I don’t see her as much as she would like but I really don’t know how to tackle it.

In a similar situation once - a family member I know very well - when I tried to get a word in edgeways and was told testily "no, just wait your turn I'm talking!"

I retorted, "And you have been talking for seven minutes now, though! Is this a conversation or a monologue, because I thought we were having a conversation?"

He took the hint, and doesn't do it any more.

Two older male relatives, though.... NOTHING prevents them from proceeding with their anecdote.

ETA " testily"

I know I interrupt but I genuinely don't mean to. I think I'm able to talk and listen at the same time, it's hard to explain, but when I start talking I'm always surprised when they stop, I honestly just think they'll keep going and I'll continue listening while also talking. I also have a couple of people who seem to be the same as me and we just talk over each other and bounce off each other and it just feels so much more interactive and relaxed than the silent turn taking.

@LongDistanceClara44 I have one old friend I do this with, it feels great. But I’ve never found anyone else I match with in the same way.

My husband does this - it’s exhausting. I cringe when we’re around people as he does it to them as well.