My wife (30F) and I (32M) have been married for 4 years. A couple of months ago she started using baby talk around the house. At first it was occasional and kind of funny, but it got to the point where she was doing it constantly and even during serious conversations like bills or chores.
I told her it’s starting to get annoying and asked her to stop. She understood and did stop for a while, but lately she’s been slipping back into it every so often. It’s not as constant as before, but it still makes normal conversations frustrating and I find myself getting annoyed quickly.
I don’t want to nag her or turn this into a fight, but I also don’t want to feel like I can’t talk to my wife normally in our own home.
TLDR Wife (30F) developed a habit of baby talk. She stopped when I asked, but now she’s doing it again occasionally. It makes normal conversations frustrating.
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Do you two HAVE a baby? Or it’s just a random quirk to be cute? Never understood why adult women like to be infantilized
Every time she reverts to baby talk, stop the conversation, turn your back on her and walk away and say, when you can start talking like an adult, we will revisit this. Then ignore her until she reverts back to adult talk rather than baby talk.
Baby talking to mimic you? make fun of you? or to look down at you and simply not take convos seriously? first time hearing this. although ur intention is to not create a fight, i think u would need to act more straightforward and serious about this *whenever* she does it because this is not how sensible adults talk