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I'm the type that talks non-stop. I know it. I try hard not to do it and I won't be offended if you call attention to it. When I find that I'm talking too much and the other person isn't responding or talking much I try to change how things are going. First of all I ask questions about them or their lives. If anything people like to talk about themselves because that's what they know best. After asking 3 questions, if a conversation hasn't started and they're still giving one word answers I will just shut up. I consider if I've asked you 3 times to talk about yourself or anything else that interests you and you don't take the opportunity then you either don't want to talk or you're too lazy to try to make conversation.
If I end up talking non-stop, then half the time, later I tend to remember all the stupid, innane things I said just to fill the silence. Then I so regret saying anything at all. I guess people who don't talk are painful to me in that I cause myself to look like an idiot.
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