What to Say When Someone Keeps Interrupting You

And here's exactly what to say. Basically, what you're going to do is name their emotions. It's going to be really simple because the emotions when somebody's interrupting you is typically you don't feel heard, you feel invisible, you're angry, you're frustrated, you don't feel respected. That's it. So it'll go like this. Somebody interrupts you in mid-sentence. You stop, you take a couple of breaths. Jefferson, you don't feel heard. You're really frustrated. You're angry. And right now you feel invisible. And you look them right in the eye as you say that using a you statement. You don't feel heard. No one is listening to you. You feel ignored. The person who is interrupting you in that moment does not feel heard. It's not about your listening. It's just that that person feels ignored and invisible and can't stand it any longer. So their own anxiety, their own need to be heard and visible provokes them into interrupting you.