Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for 12 years. Every time we go out to dinner with friends, he tells the same stories, or at least the same types of stories. The punch line is usually me. He’ll joke about the time I backed into the garage door or burned Thanksgiving rolls in 2017 like he’s performing a stand-up routine. He enjoys being the center of attention and making people laugh.

Sometimes I laugh, too, but I always feel a pang of annoyance. If I tell him I’m annoyed, he’ll just say, “You were laughing!” — but it’s really the only thing I can think to do in the moment. These jokes are terribly obnoxious, in my opinion, but he won’t even take me seriously when I tell him so. — Tired of the Comedy Show