Robbing me of myself

This guy I work with is insecure of himself. He feels the need to listen in on all of my conversations, because he believes I am talking about him. He has confronted me on his belief of me talking about him. I’m a direct person and I don’t do that. I would confront him on an issue if it bothered me.

I find it difficult to make general conversation when he is in ear shot, because he is listening. I see the eye that he gives me and I know he is there….. The silent predator. I become more worried about saying the right thing and increasingly more uncomfortable. It is less the fact of what I say and more worried about the outcome. I try to correct myself and start to babble and by this point I have made completely no sense. I have sent the light mood in to a downward spiral. I am left with a feeling of inadequacy and I feel robbed. I don’t quite know what he has taken, my innocents, but I feel it missing. His insecurities are robbing me of myself.