Would this annoy you, or am I being over-sensitive

[palomadove]

Dh has a really irritating habit of interrupting me to finish my sentence.

He knows I hate it, but keeps on doing it - I'm now sitting in a different room and he's watching a DVD on his own because he's done it again and thinks I'm over-reacting.

Am I? Or would it pee you off too?

The conversation was quite mundane - I started a sentence saying I'd bought a whole salmon on special offer, and what a good buy it had been.

"I'll look out for another one, but next time I'll go to Lakeland and buy..."

"A fish kettle" he jumped in. (Actually I'd been going to say I was planning to buy some non-stick leaves so the salmon steaks wouldn't stick together in the freezer).

It sounds really petty here, but I feel he really undermines by interrupting me like this, I've told him repeatedly I don't like it for that reason, but he keeps on doing it and can't understand why I'm getting more annoyed.
What do others think?

Dh does this to me. And EVERY TIME HE DOES IT I pause, look surprised and say "no, that's not what I was going to say". And then I wander off. This is about a million times more annoying than him finishing my sentenses for me in the first place and is doing a greta job of weaning him of the habit.

In his defence, he says that I can be maddeningly slow to finish a sentence:

Me: "Um... darling... I was thinking... um... that we should... maybe... think about... perhaps... buying some... umm... umm....

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Dh: SOME BATTERIES?????

Me: No. That's not what I was going to say at all

I do this too. It's because DP does bloody great long pauses when he's talking. How the hell am I supposed to know he's just thinking/breathing etc and it's not my turn to speak

you are being oversensitive

I just remembered, my mother does this too, and invariably she is wrong.

I also do the whole stop . . . pause . . . "No, that's not what I was going to say!"

I see it as a form of one-up-manship as in "I know you so well, I can even tell what you're going to say!"

But she doesn't.

Usually the things she thinks I am going to say put me in an unflattering light too, although I can't think of any examples off hand.

Have you noticed, that the people who do this to others think you're being over sensitive, but those who have it done to them find it annoying?

A lesson there perhaps to those who do it . . .

People (my DH, mother and sister) do this to me all the time as it takes me a while to get words out. My sister explained that her brain just works more quickly than mine so she knows what I'm going to say, so why shouldn't she finish my sentences. Well because it is fucking rude and you don't always know what I'm going to say. And just because it takes me time to get the words out doesn't mean my brain isn't working just as quickly!

I tend to put up with it for a while and then explode every now and again. It stops for a while but creeps back. I guess it is a combination of my almost stammer and them being gobby!

Thanks for all the replies. I'm not a slow talker, in fact probably the opposite.

I've had a major strop about it this time, so I think he's finally got the message... although I stopped short of the tempting suggestion on here to kick him in the nuts to break the habit .

It annoys me he doesn't take things seriously until I explode - it has no effect when I'm reasonable and ask him nicely to stop doing something unacceptable.

It would annoy me, and I like the idea of walking off and saying that isn't what you were going to say, leaving him wondering.

I do think that all you people who get a response (even one that arrives too early) are fortunate in a way though. DH often fails to reply when I say something, until I ask if he has heard me. Then I get accused of nagging. If I don't, he will then claim later that the conversation never happened. I can't win