Comments - The Difficulty In Dating Good Men - by Aella

We might be seeing a clash of conversation styles here. You expect people to ask questions. But the way a lot of people converse is by trading stories, or just letting things prompt other things -- not asking questions. That is to say, the way a conversation goes in this style is that person A tells a story, or explains a topic, or whatever; person B maybe gets person A to expand on this for a bit, if they're interested in this particular topic; and then B just takes something A said as a jumping-off point to tell a tangentially related story or explain a tangentially related topic. And this goes back and forth. You do ask questions in this format, but they're questions to clarify or to get someone to expand on what they've already said or to resolve apparent contradictions; you don't generally open a new topic with a question. You open a new topic with a "Funny you should mention that..." or a "Heh, that reminds me of the time..." or similar. You're wondering why they're asking you no

We might be seeing a clash of conversation styles here. You expect people to ask questions. But the way a lot of people converse is by trading stories, or just letting things prompt other things -- not asking questions. That is to say, the way a conversation goes in this style is that person A tells a story, or explains a topic, or whatever; person B maybe gets person A to expand on this for a bit, if they're interested in this particular topic; and then B just takes something A said as a jumping-off point to tell a tangentially related story or explain a tangentially related topic. And this g