She doesn’t talk about her new car, her new computer, their whole new heating system, the work they had done on their deck, even their vacations or weekend getaways.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My sister-in-law of about 40 years has always kept information about her life pretty close to her vest. Lately it’s gotten worse.
Now the situation with my nephew is similar. I live relatively far away from most of my family, so I can understand my nephew not sharing tons of stuff with me. But you’d think his wife would say something about her job, her friends, her parents, her daughter’s day care, something -- if not to me, to her husband’s parents, aunts, uncles, etc. Something.
When you go to someone’s home for dinner or cake or coffee , you should have at least one topic of conversation. At a minimum, you should say something about yourself, not, “So, how are things going?” to the person sitting next to you. In general, people do not die from making conversation. I don’t know how people can just not talk for decades, but I guess they can. I really don’t know why these people show up.
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