To have gotten the ick with my partner over his drinking habits?

[Newnailday]

So this is likely a me problem as I have mild OCD and often get irritated at small things that I know aren’t a real problem, I never say anything because I know it’s my issue not theirs. Looking for some perspective on this one though because it’s really putting me off my newish partner (of 5 months).

He has a lot of good points but the fact that he drinks soft drinks/fizzy pop all day long out of the bottle is really putting me off. I can’t even articulate why, it sort of feels embarrassing somehow? He also pulls his face at veg and eats sweets and chocolate constantly, he’s not overweight though.

I haven’t said anything and just tried to put it out of my mind because I don’t trust my own judgement on what’s annoying and what isn’t, but today we went for a day out together and he pulled a 2 litre bottle of Coca Cola out of his bag and started drinking from it in public. I felt sick and mortified, I didn’t want to be seen with him and I said I had a headache so that we could leave early.

Would that really put you off a partner or is my mind just blowing it out of proportion?

MN amazes me. Someone upthread said they'd be embarrassed to walk down the street with a soft drink in their hand?! WTF.

I remember after we moved to Scotland I asked some of my DC's friends if they'd like some squash to drink. Totally non-plussed. Don't think it's any more bizarre to call it diluting juice than squash tbh.

Re the OP it's the drinking straight out of a 2l bottle which would bother me.

I think it’s more drinking fizzy drinks instead of water that’s looked down on. I’ve met people who drink fizzy drinks as their one and only drink, they don’t have a single glass of water or even cordial in a day.

Most people I know just have it as a treat when out socially though, like you’ve described here.

I do love this whole "adults shouldn't drink fizzy drinks because they are unhealthy...adults should drink alcohol and coffee and definitely not milk"

I was feeling smug because I drink fuckloads of coffee but then I remembered I have milk in it so that's me foiled again. 😆

Always happy to contribute to the batshitness of Mumsnet 🤣

I hate to say it but I think this is a class thing (health is the new wealth and all that), and I think it’s a north/south divide thing.

@AnObserverInThisDarkWorld Haha - made me chuckle 😁

I concur! Such reckleness!

😁

You can ditch him for whatever reason you want and it’s early on so probably a good time. However, some of the responses on fizzy drinks are making me laugh. I drink a can of Diet Coke a day, sometimes more and my DH loves fizzy energy drinks..maybe it’s ok as we are both ‘icky’ and immature so it kind of cancels out?! 🙈

Alcohol is literally a poison. Socially acceptable, but still a poison.

Has he got any teeth left? 🤢

Exactly!

I wonder how many of the "fizzy drinks are poison and will rot your teeth" posters drink alcohol on a regular basis

Because it’s a fun pointless distracting thread on the internet!!

i can start on mud/slutch or ginnel/snicket if we want. Are they interchangeable or different things. Opinion is divided.

Fizzy drinks all the time not great
But not liking veggies and fruit etc. Eek

mild Ocd or being anal. A lot of people on this site confuse these two