Catch Up

Information and shared experiences

I’m dim, really Dim. Yet again I’ve failed to manage the simple task of replying to folk who’ve posted comments. I’m sorry as I’d really like to have a ‘chat’ with you all. My intention for this blog was not to inform the world what a great person I am (I was brought up not to lie). No, what I’d hoped for was a sort of group exchange, something to let us all know we’re not alone.

If anyone wants to let me know which icon to click on to reply I’d be very obliged.

Meanwhile I’ll say I’m obliged for the comments that have been posted and am pleased to say that Hearing Link immediately made contact with Cyril.

This blog is supposed to be about being a partner but I never wanted this to be about coping strategies as I think that dehumanises our relationships.

Strategies and coping suggest something more like rush hour traffic or meeting EU cuts. I suppose what I should limit myself to is my relationship with someone with severely impaired hearing, but that opens so many subjects because a real-life relationship includes everything we encounter, every day, for all our lives together.

I’ll suggest that partners may sometimes become frustrated, not because we struggle to communicate – far from it – but because what we’d really like is just to have a simple and spontaneous conversation. And I’ll further suggest that frustrations aren’t about any difficulties we might experience, it’s about what we’d love for our partners.

I’ve said before and will doubtless say again – we, the hearing partners, have the easy part of the relationship. It’s our partners who struggle and we try to ease though struggles.