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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:
applestrudels · 17/01/2025 13:12

He probably didn't feel comfortable cooking.

Perhaps you should have said "I feel really rough this morning, do you reckon you could make breakfast today?"

Justkeepingplatesspinning · 17/01/2025 13:10

What does he have for breakfast at home? Get a duplicate of that in so he can fend for himself.
If he's got you cooking a full fry for him, and doing all the other catering, he's well on the way to having you run to meet his every need and essentially be his house elf.
It's maybe moving a bit fast for him to be staying regularly, although you had over a week when you didn't see him. I'd slow things down a bit. Maybe do your place, his place alternately. Assuming your dog is welcome at his place?

Shrinkingrose · 17/01/2025 13:09

A proper cooked breakfast. You’re kidding.

anyway, why didn’t you just say, why passively agressively say nothing, then cook him a breakfast then complain on here.

communication is key in a relationship. This isn’t about his behaviour, it’s about yours. Why are you behaving like some sort of dogsbody scared to tell him?

TooManyChristmasCards · 17/01/2025 13:08

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.

so?
he's a grown up. Stop being a martyr.

If you want something, ASK. Not everyone is comfortable cooking in somebody else's house, it's a bit awkward to take the initiative.

As a host, you offer food. FOOD. Not a full English!
Cupboard is here, fridge is here, we have bread/ fruits/ cereals, help yourself.
If he doesn't want to eat any of this, then he's not hungry.

I don't know him, but if I was a guest and someone cooked me a hot breakfast, I would eat it to be polite and be grateful. I would HATE it, I can't stand hot breakfast, too much food, too early, don't like the taste. I would never tell you, because I am not a twat, but has he actually DEMANDED you made him one?

(if he has, the answer to him is fuck off)

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 17/01/2025 13:05

He doesn’t cook but expects a proper cooked breakfast, cooked by you, every time he stays over.

No way would I be having that! Breakfast is surely a self service affair? So you put out cereals etc, show him where bread for toast is, and everyone just gets their own?

devilspawn · 17/01/2025 13:05

If I had someone stay over and I wasn't well enough to cook breakfast, I'd have breakfast delivered for us. I certainly wouldn't have waited until lunchtime. Alternatively, I would have kicked him out to his own house and ordered breakfast just for myself.

But I agree that you should have just asked.

LBFseBrom · 17/01/2025 13:04

He certainly could have made an effort, breakfast is hardly difficult, tea, toast, cereal would have done and/or an egg.

Alternatively your man could have ordered a breakfast delivery - that is always nice. I used to treat myself to that occasionally, haven't done so for a long time but it was lovely: egg, bacon, bubble - whatever else you fancy - toast, coffee or, if you prefer, pancakes or an omelette. It's a treat and wouldn't have hurt him to do that.

I hope he at least buys groceries sometimes.

I get that your home is nicer and more convenient but don't let your boyfriend take the piss, he has to pull his weight, especially if you are unwell. That's part and parcel of a relationship.

Tell him you are fed up of always cooking meals, you need a break from it. He may well just have got used to how things are at yours and just doesn't think.

If he doesn't pull his socks up, get rid. You and your dog can do better.

CautiousLurker01 · 17/01/2025 13:04

So, he’s staying over; you’re having sex; but asking him to cook or do something as a favour or generally is outside your relationship boundaries?

Hwi · 17/01/2025 13:04

He is getting cold feet, and the relationship is so new. Have you just told him about your chronic health condition? Because, tbh, life is usually not that easy for people and if I found out about a chronic health condition in a new partner, I would run a mile (I am not strong enough to carry somebody else's load). I carry the weight of a dh's post-op fallout now, but that is different, his operation was after 25 years of marriage.

Starlight7080 · 17/01/2025 13:02

Cooked breakfast 😆.
Why didn't you just say go get cereal .
You could have made yourself cereal or toast .
If it's a lazy issue on his side then tell him now . Before it goes on longer .
I offer a coffee if I'm already making a hot drink . If he wants a cooked breakfast he knows how to do it.
Unless it's his birthday/been sick and so on.

PigletJohn · 17/01/2025 13:02

Just to check, what sort of breakfast does he cook for you when it's his turn?

Did he live with his mum too long?

Mirabai · 17/01/2025 13:01

It’s the same thread isn’t it. Only detail that’s changed in the gender of the partner.

Onabench · 17/01/2025 12:59

Just say I'm popping some toast in, fancy any

Stop cooking

TwistedWonder · 17/01/2025 12:59

Do you want a cooked breakfast every time he’s at yours OP or is this something he’s decided?

Just don’t get the supplies in if he’s not contributing. Tell him there’s yogurt and cereal if he wants to help himself

beAsensible1 · 17/01/2025 12:59

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.

of course he does 🙄

you are making a rod for your own back here.

  1. speak up for what you want
  2. stop making him cooked breakfasts every time he stays over thats ridiculous
BlondeMamaToBe · 17/01/2025 12:58

He probably doesn’t feel able to act like he lives there after three months.

SerenityNowSerenityNow · 17/01/2025 12:58

Beware of the man who doesn't do household chores because he doesn't 'like' them.......
What else will he decide he doesn't like doing?

NetZeroZealot · 17/01/2025 12:57
  1. Stop making a cooked breakfast. Buy some granola & yoghurt instead.
  2. if he doesn’t like it, dump him.
Brefugee · 17/01/2025 12:56

ExtraOnions · 17/01/2025 11:50

Why does he needs to offer ? How about “would you mind making me a brew & some toast, I feel dreadful”

it is, alas, the modern way that people have expectations of other people being able to read their thoughts instead of articulating their wish.

Speak up, OP. You barely know each other, how is he supposed to anticipate your needs at this stage?

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 17/01/2025 12:54

He's not a mind reader. Next time just say "I'm not feeling great- can you cook today?".
His response will tell you everything you need to know he will either do it willingly, or say sorry I'm a rubbish cook il order us something or we go out, or if he gets in a big huff about it then you know he's a piss taker.

christmashelp24 · 17/01/2025 12:52

Is it the only thing he eats when he's there, or is it just the only type of breakfast you've made for him in the times he's stayed over?

If he will only eat a fry up every day, at home or at yours, then yes that's weird and he should pull his finger out. If he eats cereal or whatever most days and you have both had cooked breakfasts at yours of a weekend or whatever because you've cooked then that is different.

3 months isn't long though- if he's never cooked at yours before it would be a bit weird for him to just start in my opinion. Just ask him.

Also I'm sorry about your health conditions but any relationship that keeps scores on tiredness is, in my experience, probably doomed.

dairydebris · 17/01/2025 12:51

'It's your turn to make breakfast today, I feel terrible, please bring it to me in bed, thankyou' kiss kiss.

Good Luck in all your relationships if you can't make basic requests but prefer to simmer in resentment.

ManchesterLu · 17/01/2025 12:46

Lifestooshort71 · 17/01/2025 11:49

New relationship, staying over in your house so perhaps still feels a guest. Would he have got breakfast (of sorts) if you'd asked him to?

Yeah this.

If you're not comfortable enough to ask, why would have be comfortable enough to offer?

Springflowersmakeforbetterhours · 17/01/2025 12:38

Depends what his idea of cooking is... Maybe at home he's a microwave user only....

InkHeart2024 · 17/01/2025 12:38

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.

What do you mean it's the only thing he eats? What do you like for breakfast? Why didn't you make that? Why are you martyring yourself to wife work for a boyfriend of 3 months??

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