Can someone help me understand this?

[davew0071]

Originally Posted by BJMoose

My wife is like this except that, when she slips a cog, she just stops talking in mid


This afternoon she said, "I'm." After several seconds I replied, "You certainly are."

My wife tends to do this, but usually it happens when she arrives at the subject of her sentence. It's almost as if she's forgotten the word she's looking for, and, to me, it's frustrating because that's the whole point of your sentence, how the hell could you forget the name of something?

"I unloaded the .... "

"Dishwasher?"

"Yes."

Unfortunately, there are times when I really don't can't suss out what the subject of the sentence ought to be. I really have to bite my tongue or I'll risk hurting her feelings by throwing out random nouns.

"Dishwasher? Mercedes? Lunar Landing Module? Hamster?"

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Originally Posted by davew0071

My wife tends to do this, but usually it happens when she arrives at the subject of her sentence. It's almost as if she's forgotten the word she's looking for, and, to me, it's frustrating because that's the whole point of your sentence, how the hell could you forget the name of something?

"I unloaded the .... "

"Dishwasher?"

"Yes."

Unfortunately, there are times when I really don't can't suss out what the subject of the sentence ought to be. I really have to bite my tongue or I'll risk hurting her feelings by throwing out random nouns.

"Dishwasher? Mercedes? Lunar Landing Module? Hamster?"

It's frustrating for you? Imagine how it feels for her. I have the same problem, sometimes with general nouns, sometimes with people's names. I've forgotten the word "refrigerator" in the middle of a sentence, standing right in front of it. I resort to pointing and mime, or describing what it is until word association gets me there "The big box thing. Food in it. Cold. Refrigerator!". Jason Statham is one of my favourite actors, and I was talking about a movie he was in one day. Do you think I could remember his name?
Me: "That guy. With the bald. You know. Violent man. Rrrrgh"
Hubby: "Jason Statham"

I know what I'm talking about. I know what the word is. But sometimes, and I don't know why (and I'd love if someone could explain it for me) the word just goes. And the more I try to remember it, the more it escapes me. So it's a vicious loop of struggling to remember, failing, getting frustrated and failing more.

Luckily hubby knows me well enough to usually guess what I'm thinking, and give me my word back. But yes. I sympathise with your wife, because it drives me nuts all the fucking time.