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Tough situation. You either tell her she's boring you or you keep listening and never get interested. When you say you talk to her a couple of minutes every night, are we talking about face to face or on the phone? If it's face to face, surely you can come up with a way to distract her. If it's on the phone, well, get more face to face time. lol

My husband was like this. Stupid rants about the economy, real estate investing, 401k's. And then he dropped the bomb that we were set to be retired in about 10-15 years and have enough money to make our kids very rich. I am not even 30, so retiring in 10 years perked my ears up. I'll be damned if he didn't get me interested in what he was saying. So you never know. It may start out boring, but as time goes on, you find yourself interested in the very dull things she is talking about. :D

Your just going to have to tell her that she is boring you. Because soon you will start to not like her so much, and spend less time talking to her. I am sure that you can find a tasteful way to tell her. I would say to her.....

r" Hey, we both had a long day at work, I don't want to talk about work when we are together. I want to talk about us and focus on unwork related subjects."

" I realize that you need to vent, but I really enjoy it when you talk about positive things going on in her life."

Or you could go for my husbands approach, but I wouldn't sugest it.

" Would you shut the hell up! Geeze! Your boring the hell out of me with this shit! You, you you...always about you!"

Not that my stories are boring, I just tell them over and over again....they all seem new to me. I can laugh when he does that because I know he is teasing and I don't mind being made fun of cuz it is funny. Mostly though when he does that, I don't continue talking about whatever it is that I obviously all ready told him. Either way, be honest up front and always.

I talk to her both on the phone and face to face. On the phone actually is easier than face to face because I can just do something to get my mind off the conversation, cause she can see me.

She also tells the same stories over and over. If a convo starts with "hey did I tell you...", I know I'm for a doozy whether I heard the story or not. If I had heard the story there's usually an addition to it and if not I have to here the whole thing.

My husband runs a "big 3" palnt and that's ALL i EVER hear about - cars, trucks, gears, shipping, employees - blah, blah, blah. I to use the infamous "zone out" technique. I have perfected it. You can even take the Zone out technique a step further, it's called "booze". I like to pour a tall captain and coke about 15 minutes before my hubby gets home. It does make axles and gear shifts a tad more entertaining.

I would probably go with a jack and coke.

Jack and coke is good. Just make sure if you guys plan o talking for a while that you have at least a half pint on hand!

Don't worry Intricate. That only happens when I go with the tequila.