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I'm a newlywed and absolutely adore my new husband. I'm so happy to be married to him. There's just one issue that keeps popping up as a challenge, and it has to do with the way we communicate. Or maybe it's the way we think and communicate. Anyway, I'm more of a "big picture" kind of person and really don't like to talk, and he is very detail-oriented and loves to talk through details, over and over again. I tease him that he's more like a woman in that way, which of course he doesn't appreciate, but it really drives me crazy to talk through things in great detail when I'm ready to move on to the next thing and then the next (I guess I don't have a lot of patience). And sometimes he'll ask me what I think is a rhetorical question, and I won't answer it, but then he'll get frustrated because it wasn't really rhetorical and he thinks I'm ignoring him. So what does someone who isn't into talking do with a spouse who talks things up and down and sideways?....