"I only do it with people I'm close to"

Some readers will say they don't do this at work, or with strangers. They know how to behave. It's only with a partner, or a sibling, or an old friend, where the guard's down and the jump comes out.

That's true of many people, and it's the reverse of comforting. It means that the people closest to you get the most of it. Your partner is the person who most often doesn't get to the end of a sentence. Your children learn to talk fast because that's how you get to the point before the jump. The friend who's known you for twenty years is the one who's stopped bothering with the tail.

"You never let me finish" is a sentence that gets said in homes, not offices, and it's worth hearing what it means. It doesn't mean "you interrupted me just now". It means "over years, I've stopped expecting to reach the end of what I say to you". Someone who says that has been keeping count for a long time before they said it, and the count is high.

The partner who stopped telling stories is the quiet version. There was a time when they came home and told you things, with the tail in, and somewhere along the way the tails started getting cut, and the stories got shorter, and now they say "fine" and "nothing much" and you think they've got less interesting. They haven't. They've got a listener who finishes their sentences, and a person with that listener stops starting sentences worth finishing.

I'd turn the belief round. If the jump only happens with the people you're close to, then the people you're close to are the ones with the reason to read this book, and you owe them the change first. Start at dinner, not at the meeting.