then had to show him my arms and legs cause the hives had done spread. So now I have to be out money to go to the doctor. Men just aggravate me to no end sometimes. This doesn't sound so much like a case of selective hearing, but more like a case of your husband believing you were exaggerating/lying. So he heard and understood you, just didn't believe you. Like my husband always said he didn't like X vegetable. I finally slipped it in to a casserole and he ate the whole thing and liked it. So it's not that I had selective hearing, I just thought he was being a big baby.... Yea you're right. he thought I was over exaggerating rather than just not hearing me. It just aggravates me. It's the only thing I've told him I can't have in the house and its been that way for 2 years now. Ugh, I hear you. I've been having an ongoing conversation with SO lately about his selective hearing when we talk to one another. It's getting SOOOOO annoying! Like, I told him a few weeks ago about how I'm going to temporarily put off grad school due to health issues, and, how I am OK with it because my health is important. Then, I told him how it doesn't bum me out too badly because my supervisor at work delayed grad school for a year and a half and that my counselor didn't start until she was