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To be pissed off that he didn’t offer?

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PB96 · 17/01/2025 11:42

I’ve been with new boyfriend around 3 months, known him around 6 and he has been regularly staying around my house for the last 2 months. He has his own place but I have a dog that I don’t like to leave and he lives in a flat whereas I have a house and garden.

He stayed over the other night. We both didn’t sleep all that well for different reasons. He is pretty used to not sleeping very much due to work and was absolutely fine, whereas I have a chronic health condition and if I don’t sleep well, I felt absolutely rotten the next morning (severe headaches, feeling sick, struggle to get out of bed sort of thing).

I do all the cooking for us both, as he doesn’t like doing it but does it absolutely fine for himself at his own house, and I don’t know if he feels 100% comfortable cooking at my house. So we woke up the next morning, and I was really really struggling, it got to around midday and we were both hungry however he didn’t once offer to get up and make breakfast for us both even though he knew how awful I felt, he just waited until I was up and out of bed to cook something (for him too).

AIBU to be pissed off about this and that he could have made the effort as a one-off?

OP posts:
JLou08 · 17/01/2025 14:25

You should've asked. I wouldn't feel comfortable cooking in someone else's house unless they made it clear they wanted me to. I wouldn't want anyone else cooking in my house either.

Han86 · 17/01/2025 14:23

Why will he only eat a full cooked breakfast?

Why didn't you say to him you felt unwell and to make something?

It all sounds a bit bizarre to be honest. You haven't known each other that long, however it is long enough you have invited him to stay. I am not sure I would want to go raiding someone's kitchen without permission, but I would also be ok if they said to me about making food.
You say it got to midday and you both felt hungry, why didn't you mention it then? 'Oh you must be feeling hungry, I know I am. Could you please cook today as I am not feeling great?' at that time of day you could have ordered a takeaway lunch if neither of you wanted to cook.

Ihopeyouhavent · 17/01/2025 14:20

You're an adult, why didnt you just ask him to make breakfast.

"What shall we do breakfast" is the question.

Or if neither of you wanted to cook - UberEats!!

fruitbrewhaha · 17/01/2025 14:17

He is lazy, if you’re comfortable enough with someone to have sex you should be comfortable enough to use their kitchen. Equally, you should be able to say “your turn to cook the eggs”.

TooManyChristmasCards · 17/01/2025 14:16

Bbq1 · 17/01/2025 14:08

I mean you're sharing a bed, Op so it's hardly going to be uncomfortable for him to use the kitchen! You should have just asked for some tea and toast. Two adults just lying there hungry without talking about it is ridiculous.

I disagree

3 months can still be pretty casual, and it's taking it a bit too far to make yourself at home. Some people are also very territorial about their kitchen, and very dismissive of things "not done the right way".

I wouldn't open all the bathroom cabinets either, it's rude, even after you slept together.

It's long enough to TALK however!

SheWasPureSound · 17/01/2025 14:15

Why couldn’t you both just have cereal or toast? Why didn’t you ask him?

Bbq1 · 17/01/2025 14:08

I mean you're sharing a bed, Op so it's hardly going to be uncomfortable for him to use the kitchen! You should have just asked for some tea and toast. Two adults just lying there hungry without talking about it is ridiculous.

rwalker · 17/01/2025 14:03

I wouldn’t feel comfortable helping myself and routing about in someone’s kitchen after 12 weeks I feel I’d be over stepping

TooManyChristmasCards · 17/01/2025 14:02

PigletJohn · 17/01/2025 13:56

IMO if you know them well enough to stay the night, you should feel able to open the fridge and operate the kettle and toaster.

at least the host should have mentioned it a long time ago.

I wouldn't offer to cook a hot breakfast to any man until at least our 5th wedding anniversary😂I am not a housekeeper and many places offer hot breakfast better than mine.

PigletJohn · 17/01/2025 13:56

Moveoverdarlin · 17/01/2025 13:40

I wouldn’t cook in someone else’s house 2/3 months in to a new relationship. If you felt that awful you should have just said ‘help yourself to cereal or toast this morning, I’m too tired to do a full breakfast’.

IMO if you know them well enough to stay the night, you should feel able to open the fridge and operate the kettle and toaster.

Bearbookagainandagain · 17/01/2025 13:54

3 months is really early on, and from what you've said he doesn't stay at yours very regularly.
At that point it's relatively normal that whoever's house it is will be in charge of meals. It doesn't mean doing all the cooking or buying all the groceries, but taking the lead on what/when/how.

Yes he could have offered but it's not crazy either that he didn't feel comfortable enough, the same way you didn't feel comfortable enough to ask him.

pinkyredrose · 17/01/2025 13:50

I now have a massive collection of cookery books and most of the latest kitchen gadgets as when I moved in with DP he expected a proper cooked meal every night. I'm a SAHM so I have the time to cook and I enjoy it now I have a family to cook for

Bloody hell. How did he manage before you turned up? You enjoy it now? Just as well.

25GBUK · 17/01/2025 13:41

Eh? A proper cooked breakfast? You could have asked him to make tea and toast or popped out to the shops for something you could eat straight off.

Moveoverdarlin · 17/01/2025 13:40

I wouldn’t cook in someone else’s house 2/3 months in to a new relationship. If you felt that awful you should have just said ‘help yourself to cereal or toast this morning, I’m too tired to do a full breakfast’.

Pineapplewaves · 17/01/2025 13:32

Does he cook absolutely fine at his own house though? When I was single breakfast was toast, lunch was a Tesco meal deal (I walked past Tesco everyday to get to the office) and dinner was a ready meal for one.

I now have a massive collection of cookery books and most of the latest kitchen gadgets as when I moved in with DP he expected a proper cooked meal every night. I'm a SAHM so I have the time to cook and I enjoy it now I have a family to cook for.

Maybe he doesn’t know how to cook? Maybe he was too polite to go through your cupboards and find something? If I stay the night at someone else's house I always wait until they get up to see if they had any plans/anything for breakfast, I wouldn't help myself to anything except a cup of coffee.

Did you say "I'm not feeling well, there's a loaf of bread in the kitchen can you make us some toast/cook the bacon and eggs that are in fridge"? And a coffee for me please.

biggreenapple24 · 17/01/2025 13:26

Did he know you felt unwell? If so I'd expect him to ask what he could do to make you feel better, including tea & toast

PiastriThePastry · 17/01/2025 13:23

PB96 · 17/01/2025 11:49

I had… but a quick 5 minutes is different to cooking over a stove a proper hot breakfast which is the only thing he eats when he is here.

More fool you if you’re getting up when you’re feeling crappy to make him a full fry-up when it isn’t something you’d do anyway. Talk about making a rod for your own back!

Lairymary · 17/01/2025 13:23

PB96 · 17/01/2025 11:49

I had… but a quick 5 minutes is different to cooking over a stove a proper hot breakfast which is the only thing he eats when he is here.

Well you've kind of made your bed here. He expects a fry up when he's over? I would take a bet that he doesn't cook that for himself at home (and that it wouldn't be offered if you were to stay over) I think you should go and stay at his for a night and see if this breakfast arrangement is reciprocal. Then decide on a scale of 1 to 10 how much of a cocklodger he is.

SoNiceToComeHomeTo · 17/01/2025 13:23

You need to ask him to cook breakfast or whatever, OP. He's in your home and will assume that you will plan and cook unless you ask him to do it. It would be better if he noted how ill you were feeling and asked what you needed, but some people are not that imaginative.

Sherararara · 17/01/2025 13:19

You both sound immature. How old are you? Normally you would just, you know, talk to each other about stuff like feeling sick, making breakfast etc.

AnonymousBleep · 17/01/2025 13:18

Do you actually cook a full cooked breakfast for him every day or, say, a bacon sandwich? My son (who is a gym bunny and football fanatic and needs millions of calories) makes himself a bacon sandwich every morning before school. He is 15 and has mastered the art of the frying pan, it's not hard! We only have a full fry-up really if we go out for brunch though. Anyway, as others have said, be careful you're not inadvertently growing yourself a cock lodger - or at least someone who expects you to shoulder all the domestic responsibility. Having said that, given you've just got together, he he probably does feel a bit weird cooking for you in your home, if he also thinks you have a fry-up every morning.

ERthree · 17/01/2025 13:17

He didn't cook because he see's that as your job, you are his new housekeeper.

pinkyredrose · 17/01/2025 13:15

PB96 · 17/01/2025 11:49

I had… but a quick 5 minutes is different to cooking over a stove a proper hot breakfast which is the only thing he eats when he is here.

Why is that the only thing he eats? Does he expect you to make it and does he make that for himself at home?

ByQuaintAzureWasp · 17/01/2025 13:13

Are yiu paying for this food you cook?

IlooklikeNigella · 17/01/2025 13:13

I think it's a moderate red flag. Ok he's not a mind reader and may not have known you'd like him to offer but honestly at that point of knowing each other my now DH would definitely have been saying

"What can I do for you?" In fact he frequently asks me now which is a definite plus in our relationship.

I get what the PPs are saying about you requesting but I don't like the picture which I'm seeing here of him hanging around waiting for you to get yourself up and cook his breakfast.

I'm not saying dump but do press the brake here on getting attached to this man.

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