Husband labelling HIS OWN FOOD

[MrsWestox]

Hi all
Now, am I being old fashioned here? Husband since 2014 has taken to labelling ALL the food he buys with a sharpie pen..which ironically I bought.. expecting no one to touch it. But when it comes to the food I buy..plus literally everything else from loo roll to bin bags to washing powder that I buy..is fair game for him to use or eat as he sees fit. So much for a shared household eh? Sharing is caring..( lol)! Has anyone else experienced this..? Am I being unreasonable to be totally razzed off by this?

Tell him that this is ridiculous, and since he regards everything you have bought as his you are ignoring labels from now on.

If that leads to him locking stuff away, do the same.

Why do you abide by his rules OP? Have you pointed out his double standards? What happens if you eat something of his?

I don't understand op?

He's been doing this 8 years! When he first did it, did you not call him out on it?

Is it just treats (so special chocolate type thing) or actual food for meals? If the latter, it's abusive.

I eat gluten free but even then I happily share that food if someone else in the house fancies it (which despite it often being not as nice as other options with gluten, they rather often do!).

That is weird.

Separate rooms, separate finances, he labels his food...

Sounds to me like you need separate homes and separate lives.

So what happened in 2014? Did someone take his last rolo?

Label the front door

'this way out and don't come back'

Next time sex is on the cards, write X's (insert his best mate's name) playground, right above your bits.

I CANNOT resist biscuits, my husband keeps chocolate digestives in his office that are just his. But that's because I eat all the biscuits when breastfeeding so it's like a short term remedy to my short term complete lack of control around biscuits. I think that's pretty reasonable. Sounds like ops husband is more extreme

YABU … to have put up with this nonsense since 2014! I mean, what?! 🤯

Mash his food up. Put dog biscuits in it.. tell him to get real

buy a lockable box and put everything in it like loo rolls and dont let him have any. alternatively charge him half the price.

Maybe he loves his cheshire cheese, or ripe avocado and hates it when they are pinched?

I don't see how it can NOT work reciprocally. Either label all the other food with your name, or ignore his labels and eat what you like?

(Although I'd be tempted to get a black Sharpie and write some other guy's name OVER his on the food he's already labelled.)

I'd draw a cock and balls on his forehead with that sharpie.

The oddest part is that this has been going on for 8 years and you are just venting about it now!

It isn't clear if your two kids used to eat all the food when they were teens or if he has specific treats he doesn't want eaten or if you shop and eat separately and this is how he remembers what is how or what his reason is.

You haven't said anything about it or asked him why in eight years ? 😳

Hahahahaha

Separate rooms/ finances and labelled food… he is not actually your partner, he is your lodger.

Her OP says that she has been married since 2014 and he has taken to the labeling, which suggests that it is somewhat recent. It does not say that he has been doing this their entire marriage.

@butterpuffed et al- I was assuming @MrsWestox just meant he's been her husband since 2014, and the sharpie-ism is more recent.

Well now that you mention it...

Yep taste of his own medicine.

He labels ALL that he buys. A cabbage, pack of tomatoes..celeriac, garlic..nothing escapes the sharpie treatment..

I have experience of this! We started to label our own food when we decided to DIVORCE. So i think that's where its heading with this type of behaviour..

Oh THAT makes more sense! I got foiled by the syntax.

But it still begs the question WTF!? & more importantly, what LabelHead's response was when OP WTF'd him about it ...