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To not want to always eat fried foods?

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Unhappilymarriedd · 10/08/2025 21:12

We’re on holiday and all he cares about is McDonald’s and KFC! He’s been the same since forever but I’m just over it now. I’ve lost nearly 4 stones and it’s not that I’m conscious of putting weight on I just don’t enjoy fried foods much anymore. I found a lovely little tapas bar with meats salad’s rice everything they even sold fried chicken for his sake! He didn’t want to go there so I have ended up not eating.

Obviously I was upset but I didn’t say anything I was just fed up walking round for hours trying to find a restaurant that suited us all only to end up at kfc again.

So then he’s winding me up oh poor mummy (to the kids) she didn’t get to eat her tapas.

He makes me feel abnormal for not waiting to eat McDonald’s or kfc all the time.

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CalmTheFuckDownMargaret · 10/08/2025 21:44

I’d leave the unadventurous, unhealthy, selfish man to it and eat what I wanted anyway.

Pleasehelp200 · 10/08/2025 21:40

Are you happy in your relationship generally?

TyroleanKnockabout · 10/08/2025 21:40

What a dickhead

Panterusblackish · 10/08/2025 21:39

Unhappilymarriedd · 10/08/2025 21:33

None! I’m very much out of love with him. I just don’t know a life without him.

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It will be a better one, no matter how hard it seems now

TheGoodOnesAreAllGone · 10/08/2025 21:38

So he's feeding the kids that junk every day too?
I would tell him to piss off and take the kids for tapas. He's can go and eat kfc on his own.
Why are you still married to him? He sounds like an absolute prick! He's also teaching your children really bad habits around food and how to treat a partner.

Panterusblackish · 10/08/2025 21:38

You should leave him.

Not because of his appalling diet but because he hates you.

That might sound dramatic, but can you imagine depriving someone of food when there are plenty of options available and then mocking them in front of their own children? I'm struggling to think of anyone i dislike enough to do that to?

Maybe Nigel Farage? Oh I definitely starve Andrew Tate. But real people? No.

Yet the man who is supposed to love and respect you enjoys treating you with absolute contempt.

Get you and your kids away

Leilaandtheloggerheads · 10/08/2025 21:36

I can’t be doing with man-children that haven’t grown up and started eating vegetables. That’s unattractive enough as it is but this:

”So then he’s winding me up oh poor mummy (to the kids) she didn’t get to eat her tapas.”

gives me the rage to the point of wanting to punch him in the face for you. What a disgusting, selfish cunt. To watch the woman he supposedly loves not get to eat a nice meal she wanted (and not eat AT ALL from what you’ve said?) and to mock that openly and laugh about it is vile beyond words!! I cannot imagine wanting to deprive my DP of a meal he wanted, even if I didn’t want it myself! We’d find a way to compromise so we’re both happy.

He’s disgusting. Do yourself a favour and bin him off. Fast. Urgh 🤮

CarefullyCuratedFurniture · 10/08/2025 21:34

Im sorry he is spoiling your holiday. I would let him have his boring fast food with the kids, and take yourself off for lovely tapas and a few glasses of wine.

He's not a nice man, is he? Is he like this at home as well?

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Unhappilymarriedd · 10/08/2025 21:33

Needtosoundoffandbreathe · 10/08/2025 21:14

Horrible of him. Does he have any redeeming qualities?

None! I’m very much out of love with him. I just don’t know a life without him.

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Renamed · 10/08/2025 21:31

He has an eating disorder. And is also a cunt.

notacooldad · 10/08/2025 21:19

So then he’s winding me up oh poor mummy (to the kids) she didn’t get to eat her tapas
To be honest thats worse than the fried food issue.
He is deliberately disrespecting you in front of the children and undermining and mocking you.
Im the only veggie in the family but dh will never go to a restaurant without checking the menu to make sure there's several options for me to choose

Now they are adults ds1 and 2 do the same when they take me out.

Dartmoorcheffy · 10/08/2025 21:16

Go for the food YOU want to eat, let him be a boring git and eat what he wants.

ninjahamster · 10/08/2025 21:14

He sounds like a twat. You should go for tapas alone.

Needtosoundoffandbreathe · 10/08/2025 21:14

Horrible of him. Does he have any redeeming qualities?

Catcatcat111 · 10/08/2025 21:14

This would drive me mad. What adult wants to eat that rubbish for every meal and surely it would be so much better for your kids to try something different.

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