Regretful and not sure how to proceed

[AloneAt35]

What do they have to talk about for hours?...Themselves.

You wouldn't believe how fascinating we can find ourselves. Trust me, they aren't talking with each other, they are talking at each other about (you guessed it) themselves.

Ignore, Ignore, Ignore...by rising above it, by being too good for it to bother you, by thinking of your son, by thinking of the nice dinner you had this weekend (I envy you...), and most of all by knowing that YOU can't make this stop...inertia will keep it going for a while, but since everything is subject to the laws of gravity here on planet Earth, and since we can all only tell the SAME stories about ourselves to the same person for just SO long, it will eventually slow down.

You've just got to tough this out and trust me that the conversations are as stupid and self-centered as I say they are.