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Partner keeps going on and on about Middle East conflict

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MyTrivia · 17/03/2026 18:56

Every morning and evening, he phones me to go on and on about the Iran conflict.

Petrol will triple in price
there won’t be any food
it will be like Covid but worse

I’m so sick of hearing about it. There’s nothing we can do and I would prefer to focus on my autistic kids who need my support. I have quite fragile mental health too.

its like he’s obsessed with it.
Anyone else with partner / family this way?

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Tontostitis · 18/03/2026 05:56

MyTrivia · 17/03/2026 19:13

Honestly, he is like this about all these things that happen. During Covid he spent the first weeks so paranoid that his hands bled from hand gel. Then suddenly he decided Covid didn’t exist.

My husband went from mad pepper to flat earther over Covid so this really resonates with me. He's going off on one about current events and I just keep listing the reasonable precautions we have taken and saying I'm not engaging with this anymore remember xyz and listing previous obsessive overreactions.

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