is it normal for me to feel like Dp hates it when i speak ...

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Dp and I have been together 6 years we have 2 beautiful children , we have always had to work Extremely hard at our relationship ( harder than others I feel ) and we are probably at a point where we are too comfortable we both have quite bad tempers and sharp tongues we bicker quite a lot but I think that's just who we are ...
Being in a relationship defiantly doesn't come naturally to either of us (mayb we are products of our upbringings -both from broken homes and dysfunctional families and are very concious and under of giving our children what we never had ...... maybe its just who we are i'm not sure )
but the thing i struggle with the most is that whenever i speak about anything either serious or just chit chat he seems to be in physical pain.
I have spoken to him many times about this and been on many occasions quite upset about it he genuinely seems to understand , sympathise and want to do better but then then the next thing i say he just Glazes over as usual ..
I see him having conversations with other people and he can converse with the best of them but with me he had no response , constantly misses the point and either has a response that makes no sense completely irrelevant or doesn't bother to respond at all ... he also is very good at saying exactly what i want to hear but with no actual reason or meaning and i never know if its honest or just rubbish i struggle to take anything he says seriously as i feel he just says things for the sake of it or just says what he thinks i want to hear .... its as if he has know opinions or actual thoughts of his own .. he will just repeat back to me whatever i have said
He does the same when we are arguing and will say abck to me what i have said to him as if i haven't said it which then gets us no where . like he is a robot programmed to say certain things .

Is this normal typical man behaviour - a concept i find difficult to accept to begin with . or are we doomed .

I worries me to think i am going to spend the rest of my life having no-one to talk to the one person who i should be able to talk to about anytihng

No I would never deny that women abuse their children - again it's the misuse of power against somebody smaller and weaker - may those women who aren't sorry for damage they've caused, rot in hell

This is how my contemptuous teenage son speaks to me.....just opening my mouth seems to get the hairs on his neck standing up. Driving him to school I am not allowed to talk to him I just chirp away - I am an extrovert he is an introvert he says I am "so annoying" when I ask "what have you today - etc"

Reading your post l was wondering if he had a speech and language difficulty.. We come across this in children now..its not their actual speech but a communication problem
..a lot of these problems are tied in together.. Children are being diagnosed now but not when your do was young..my D's has dyspraxia and there is nearly always a hesitation after l speak to him before he answers me..l think he hasn't heard me then the answer comes...its hard to pin point but he is definitely not doing it deliberately... But it is frustrating...l think there is some connection between your DPS dypraxia and his communication problem...what you do about it at this stage is hard to know but if could see its not meanness it might help

I think that, too, comedancing. The OP says her dh has a diagnosis of dyspraxia. All kinds of communication issues are associated with dyspraxia. It would be better to know than not to know; then you can plan next action with the information you need to make the best of the future, whatever that may look like.

The OP says he can communicate ok with other people though, chat away to them. If he had communication problems related to dyspraxia would it not affect his communication in general?

It could depend on the how emotional the conversation is. Work colleagues and social contacts would tend to speak to him in a neutral, non-emotional way. A wife tends to speak to her dh in a way which is more emotional, less focussed on logic and fact - for one thing, because she's hoping to share her emotions (upset, anger, joy) with him.

It's worth trying taking the emotion out of the communication, to see if that seems less painful to him. I'm betting it will.