This was not my original post tonight, but I am a bit frustrated so I changed it. I forgot some passwords to emails. Normally, I just enter them and let the software keep track so I do not have to enter them each time, but tonight the software was not recognizing the stored passwords so I tried to enter them and was unsuccessful. I am sure that is bad policy, but hey that is me.
My wife can sense my frustration and asks me what is wrong so I tell her and then she starts rattling off passwords. I have asked her several times in the past not to do that. So I snapped at her and asked her to stop. Hence part of my frustration.
People do not always want help, sometimes they just want to spew and think. That is what I was doing. I was frustrated because I could not remember the passwords and the ones I tried did not work. I am sure I would have eventually remembered them, but with another just throwing out passwords it just causes me to get all confused because now I am thinking did I use that one or not and they just keep rattling around in my head.
I really wish people would just learn to listen. I am sure some of you will say she was trying to help and that is true, but one I did not ask for the help and two I have asked her not to do that in the past. The best help she could have given was to just listen. After she said the few passwords out loud, my brain was only thinking about those and nothing else, I just went and reset them all.
I know people mean well when they try to help, but we really need to sit back and wait to see if that person wants any help. Do not get me wrong, I do it as well. We all like to be problem solvers or what have you. I do it a lot with my kids, especially my daughter as she is working as a new manager and is in the process of learning the ropes so to speak. However, I should just learn to listen.