Food portions and how to laugh this off??

[PenisPortions]

Help me dear mners, my dh is gaslighting me into accepting his penis portions and I need your stories of similar craziness to help me laugh it off..!

In laws came round, we had two large steaks for dinner. MIL wasn't keen on steak so we made her a stuffed pepper and sides so she was catered for and happy. FIL wanted half of one of the steaks, fine. Dh asked what I thought about that and I said yes fine we'll just share the rest. Dh looked confused for a bit and I said I think it's enough between the two of us to share the remainder.

FIL cooked the sides, DH bbqed the steaks (i was in with the baby), and I come out to see three plates of food. Two have half a steak on them and the third has a whole steak, which dh had claimed as his plate.

I was like ummm are you not splitting it? He said yes I did, and I kind of laughed in disbelief saying no you've given yourself twice the amount of food as me! He got really defensive, said this was what we agreed (not true), and got cross. I told him I was going to even things out, so cut off some of his, and he was so grumpy about it, saying he'd said he wanted a full one and I agreed to that. No "I'm sorry I misunderstood and under catered for you, let's split it like grown ups".

It is such a stupid little thing but keeps playing on my mind, what on earth was that?! Please tell me stories of similar imbalances that your partners have tried to get away with to help me put it into perspective.

Good grief, unclench!

I saw that quail.

It wasn't small at all - it was verging on medium-size.

@therealcookiemonster is just too ashamed to admit that she has raised a family of gluttons!

Shame on you, cookiemonster. Shame on you.

<tuts>

Don’t get arsey because you’re embarrassed at misreading someone’s tone. We’ve all done it. @ChedderGorgeous is satirising the usual unhealthy attitudes to portions that so often come up on these threads.

I eat more than my male partner. I am not overweight. In fact, until I had 2 almost back to back pregnancies, I was in much better shape than partner. I need more calories than him. However, if there was 1.5 steaks to split between us, they would automatically be shared equally, by whoever was serving then!!

I'm not embarrassed, I'm annoyed. I didn't ask to be on the receiving end of that.

In which case I apologise. Just a play on chicken or the egg. My misteak.

I would have gone out and bought more steaks. MIL was pretending not to want any as she saw you didn't have enough.

I can’t…

You didn’t ask to be on the receiving end of a post by someone else that wasn’t directed at you and that was just gently poking fun at the mental MN approaches to food portions?

😂

Surely it was clear I wasn't playing along? I'm not embarrassed that I'm autistic and didn't know it was some kind of joke.

I would simply have cooked the steaks, and sliced them up all fancy like and put them on a plate (board) for people to help themselves. Problem solved.

Fucking hell, this thread is a lesson in what's going awry in MN these days.

But it wasn’t to or about you. So I’m not sure why you’re upset.

I see where you are coming from OP, If I portioned this up I would have given DH the full one and I would have had the half, same as if he had asked me, but if he PRESUMED he should be entitled to the bigger portion and served himself that way I'd be ticked off too, it's incredibly selfish, especially seeing as they're his parents not yours!

But the average man does need more food than the average woman, simple biological fact. Dd, dsd and I all have 3 roast potatoes, dp has 4, I also give him extra meat usually, we have the same veg though, he's 6ft 1 compared to to the rest of us under 5'6, he genuinely uses more calories per day.

If I buy steaks, they rarely are identical in size, I give him the larger one, etc ... again not because he's make, it's because he uses more calories per day

My mil says her son should eat bigger portions because he is a man and needs the extra calories.

Dh is sedentary and I work out 3-5 times a week and nurse a 15 month old 😂

So many people are missing the point. They bought two steaks. One each. The in laws muscled in last minute and the husband decided that it would be the OP who would have to split her steak in half, and his would remain entirely unaffected by his parents’ arrival. His breastfeeding wife.

That's totally selfish.

You should stir pasta and sauce together. That is correct

I was being quoted. Anyway, now I've been told it's a wind up I'll leave the thread. I can't engage because I don't know if anyone means what they say or not.

Oh really? Must have missed that bit.
She posted at 01:01 in the morning apparently.
"I need your stories of similar craziness to help me laugh it off..!][ Please tell me stories of similar imbalances that your partners have tried to get away with to help me put it into perspective."

The story is not one of imbalance, but of communication and relationships.
As far as I can make out there were two steaks for three people. One suggested he would eat only a half, leaving one and a half. They agreed on splitting it.

Splitting what? Splitting usually means splitting in equal portions one whole piece. There was no whole to split, so what had to be done was to take 25% of the one steak which is what @PenisPortions seems to have done in the end.

@PenisPortions and dh need to work on their communications. That was just a simple communication failure. And if dh wants a full steak then he should fork out for one.

There's no craziness or imbalance. Just bad catering and opportunity for improved communication which @PenisPortions and dh both own.

Although @PenisPortions seems to believe that she should be eating "balanced =equal" portion to what he's having, which of course is nonsense.
The fact that it is praying on her mind at 01:01 in the morning says she has not yet worked it out with him. She has work to do, not laugh it off.
I'll stop the relationship counselling bit now.

Hoping for some stories from others soon please!?!

I am a 71-year-old Irish woman living in Mexico and have never had to deal with men being served or expecting to be served more than women.

I imagine your husband is selfish in more ways than one.

I now hate the word ‘portion’

Not the point of this but… 🤷🏻‍♀️

She's breastfeeding! She needs more than usual and her needs should be met first 🤷‍♀️ presumably when they bought the steaks it was with the intent of one each so with an unexpected guest sharing it should have been an equal split (although tbh as it was your husbands father nicking the food I'd have kept my steak and made DH share his). It's rude to turn up unannounced.

How did this get 346 replies?

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He had a whole steak. He was entitled to 2/3 of a steak. So that is 1/3 extra. So yes. Appallingly entitled behaviour. LTB. 😀