Recently, my wife got a new job after working at her previous employer for six years. She made some fairly close friends working there, but she felt as though she was stagnating in her career and that she needed a higher salary. She rarely sees her old coworkers anymore, but earlier this evening they are a meal together at a restaurant downtown. My wife was very excited when I picked her up from the train station to take her home, and she gave me a huge data dump of everything that happened that evening. It was a ridiculous level of detail, and she just wouldn't stop. I said "honey, please" a few times to signal that I wasn't interested, but she refused to take the hint. Finally, when we got to a red light, I politely held up my hand and said "I have reached my limit of discussing this matter. With respect, I would like to change the subject." My wife's attitude immediate changed and she became very sulky and quiet. She sometimes struggles with what level of detail is appropriate to share because she lets her enthusiasm get the better of her. This leads to her sharing everything, which I have brought up in the past, but it doesn't seem to sink in. Even after arriving home, my wife has been quite distant and doesn't respond to anything I say with more than a few words. I believe that she is deliberately refusing to see that there is a middle ground between the silent treatment and her chatterbox tendencies, which I find immature. I clearly don't know how to communicate in a way that is acceptable to her that what her friends are up to and what entrees they were eating are of no consequence to me, but I found my response to her quite restrained and mature. I would like to hear what your thoughts are on the situation and I am wondering if anything would have made her react differently. AITA?