I try to be patient, I really do but it makes me want to cut off my own ears when my partner goes off on a tangent in a 'conversation' which is essentially all the time.
Conversation in inverted commas as getting anything is like getting blood from a stone anyway.
Was I being unreasonable to try and patiently tell him to cut down on the tangent as that wasn't the conversation I was trying to have- that sounds harsh but I literally can't live with it anymore so it was a way of asking for something we could change.
Example: what would you like for dinner?
Response... well yesterday I had veg lasagne I didn't really like it but that's all there was other than toast and I thought I'd be hungrier than that....blah blah
Without answering the bastard question.
Today: I really enjoyed my walk did you?
Response: I knew that route was there as the guy at work that's got that nice car and married to Sarah, they live in the next town and I went to his birthday party last year....
The rage is building.
He is also now sulking after telling me he just won't talk atall then.
I never get an actual answer to my question and by time he's rambled on my mind wanders to find the answer to the question in my own head and it ends up being irrelevant I even asked.
Tell me I was not being unreasonable or tell me how I can ask him more sensitively that sometimes I just need the information out of him.