Annoying Habits Essay

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If I could make one change in myself it would be how I communicate with my wife. Sometimes when we our talking I have a terrible habit of correcting her when she speaks. For example, if we were having a conversation about the weather and she says “Its 17 below outside” and I look at the thermometer and it say “It’s 10 below not 17” I will correct her. She gives me this look like to say “Does it really matter.” So I need to work on myself to change this habit. 1. What context or setting is required for you to achieve your goal? I will make it a goal of mine to keep my petty comments to myself because in the end I’m just making a big deal over nothing. I have been listening more to her and trying to keep my opinions to myself and not correcting her when we speak to each other. I need to teach myself that if she tells me “Hey look how blue the sky is today” and I say “It’s actually grey” that it’s really not a big deal what color the sky is. The way she interprets or looks at something a little differently than I do should not be a factor on how we talk to each other. So I need to stop critiquing her when she speaks. I picked up this annoying habit from my mother because she used to talk to me in the same manner. So I guess I have a little bit of my mother in me that has rubbed off on me through the years of growing up at home. I intend to kick this annoying habit so conversations with my wife are more pleasant for

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