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Dec. 11th, 2020 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreIn theory, my family's weekly zoom call is a good idea but in practice, this is how it goes every week:
- my sister Megan does her best to monopolize the conversation for the entire 40 minutes. (I would be more sympathetic to the idea that she does this because she is currently isolated if not for the fact that she has done the same thing in every conversation our entire lives - Megan is very "I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me")
- my sibling-in-law Sean takes up the rest of the space (inadvertently, I think) because they are a big boisterous Golden Retriever of a person.
- my mom talks either talks over everyone or interrupts what conversation there is to bring up something completely different, usually a object she wants to shove in front of the camera
- my other sister Katie grows gradually more and more stony-faced and silent throughout
- my dad occasionally gets to say something (because he is the only one Megan actually respects enough to stop talking)
- I do my best to ask Katie questions about what she's been up to, in hopes that she'll feel better and also get to answer before Megan jumps in again
- (neither of my sisters ask after me at all because of course not, that goes without saying)
- this continues for 40 minutes, at which point Megan is inevitably cut off midsentence, the call ends, and I spend the rest of the evening feeling vaguely depressed
At least this week I had made Italian hot chocolate to fortify myself with.
- my sister Megan does her best to monopolize the conversation for the entire 40 minutes. (I would be more sympathetic to the idea that she does this because she is currently isolated if not for the fact that she has done the same thing in every conversation our entire lives - Megan is very "I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me")
- my sibling-in-law Sean takes up the rest of the space (inadvertently, I think) because they are a big boisterous Golden Retriever of a person.
- my mom talks either talks over everyone or interrupts what conversation there is to bring up something completely different, usually a object she wants to shove in front of the camera
- my other sister Katie grows gradually more and more stony-faced and silent throughout
- my dad occasionally gets to say something (because he is the only one Megan actually respects enough to stop talking)
- I do my best to ask Katie questions about what she's been up to, in hopes that she'll feel better and also get to answer before Megan jumps in again
- (neither of my sisters ask after me at all because of course not, that goes without saying)
- this continues for 40 minutes, at which point Megan is inevitably cut off midsentence, the call ends, and I spend the rest of the evening feeling vaguely depressed
At least this week I had made Italian hot chocolate to fortify myself with.
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Date: 2020-12-12 08:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-12-13 12:06 am (UTC)I still have failed, miserably, to learn how to balance this dynamic. The rest of my siblings are also garrulous, so I tend to end up hanging in the background during family get togethers.
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Date: 2020-12-13 03:46 am (UTC)