I recently moved into a larger, better insulated house, with the downside that my partner and I can no longer chat at each other from any room -- the previous place was tiny with paper thin walls.
However, my partner seemed to be unaware of this, and would regularly try to talk to me even though I was on a different floor, with several fairly thick walls between us. I could still clock that she was talking, but just barely, and I couldn't discern any of the actual content, meaning I had to stop what I was doing to go find her and have a conversation. The new house has some pretty horrible stairs, so this meant climbing the death stairs multiple times a day. It felt like I was being passive aggressively summoned.
Needless to say I didn't enjoy this setup, so i told her she needed to either talk MUCH louder, or stop trying to have conversations with me when I'm not in the same room as her. She seemed to listen, but after a day went right back to mumbling from two rooms away, so I did what any slightly deranged, conflict-averse person would do, and just started ignoring her.
Now she had to get up and find ME if she wanted to have a conversation -- which I think is more than fair --but she seemed very annoyed. So when she asked me "are you ignoring me?" I said no, I just couldn't hear her. When she said that that was impossible because the house is usually very quiet, I doubled down and cited my many years of ear-abuse from concert bands, punk bands, and my own habit of listening to music very loudly.
I thought she'd finally have to just speak to me in the way regular humans do, but no, the next day she sends me a link to a free hearing test, because she's concerned about my hearing.
Im in too deep at this point and decided to take the test. I briefly considered failing the test on purpose, but decided I should probably know if my hearing is actually okay, given that I wasn't lying and have actually put my inner ears through some pretty rough treatment.
And so I find myself sheepishly presenting a hearing test to my partner, which shows that not only do I not have hearing loss, I have better than average hearing. I come clean about the whole charade, and luckily, it gets through to her this time.
The morale of the story is: lying to your partner always works out and talking issues out never works. This single data point proves that beyond a reasonable doubt! Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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