The 8 telltale signs that people are not talking straight:
- dancing around the issue
- dumping a laundry list of concerns
- dramatising and exaggerating
- minimising and reducing
- withholding information, thoughts or feelings
- expecting others to read your mind
- dropping a bomb
- deflecting and avoiding
Read Say It Right The First Time by Loretta Malandro (2003) if you want to know how to deal with people with those characters.