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AIBU?

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Didn’t want to make him food

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littlehorsesthatrun · 15/12/2023 06:55

Some context needed. I have three kids, work as teacher and I’m doing an MA with a big assignment coming up. Yesterday, I had worked all day, picked up the kids, came home to cook dinner, do two loads of washing, play with my 6 year old and put him to bed. I then had to iron a school skirt and do a couple of jobs for work. This is the first evening all week I’ve had 20 minutes to watch something on telly and just relax DP texts as I shut my computer asking me to put some food on for him.

He’s been at work drinks but won’t eat in front of other people- it’s a thing for him but I have said for him to please not ask me to cook like this before. He would cook for me if it was the other way around- I just wouldn’t ask him to as I’d eat earlier in the day.

I made him food and then I was just fed up so I went to bed and when he came up I told him I had a headache that’s why Id gone to bed and not waited for him. AIBU to not want to make him food? I don’t want him to be starving and come in to nothing if he hasn’t eaten all day- but I think he should eat before he goes out.

OP posts:
SecondUsername4me · 15/12/2023 12:58

Question is, OP, are you going to chat to him today about it?

littlehorsesthatrun · 15/12/2023 13:10

I have said to him I don’t want him asking me to make food again on the way home. I told him how tired I was last night and he does get it. Honestly I’m really thinking about our whole dynamic around food. It’s draining-
I am going to try and get the whole family eating as much the same as possible (with autism and vegetarians in the mix)
Thanks for the replies everyone.

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Eleganz · 15/12/2023 13:18

Just say no. He can make it when he gets back home, I mean what time are you saving him? 30 minutes? He can come home 30 minutes earlier.

You have my absolutely sympathy regarding the food thing. My ex was a picky eater with several things about food. I never released it was such an oppressive thing to live with until we split up (because he cheated not because of hi food preferences). Every choice related to food had to be built around him, my preferences were not ever a consideration really. I allowed that to happen so I encourage you to put some boundaries in place - he needs to be responsible for his own preferences and issues as an adult.

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