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To get angry if interrupted when eating?

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MM1972 · 06/03/2024 00:16

I have blown my top recently. I've exploded with anger after just sitting down to eat and my partner has started to tell me I must do something. I've requested to be allowed to finish eating but they continue repeatedly telling me I must do this that or the other. On one occasion I scraped my dinner, which I'd just prepared myself, into the bin, turned my phone off and drove to McDonald's.
The same thing happens when
using the bathroom.

I have lunch at work on the hoof and really only get to sit down at dinner and going to the bathroom.
Personally I would never order my partner to do anything. I ask for their help if needed.

I would never shout orders at someone when they are using the bathroom or when they have just sat down to eat.

Is my need to be able to eat without having someone bark the same instructions at me over and over unreasonable? Perhaps a sign of autism? Or is my partner unreasonable for not allowing me to eat in peace?

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Bonbon249 · 06/03/2024 23:39

You don't want to eat in silence, you want to eat (and pee) in peace. There's a big difference! Your partner sounds like hard work and not a good match for you. Time to do more than consider going your separate ways..Oh, and if someone was shouting commands at me through the bathroom door, they would be getting told to eff off in very short order!

JMSA · 06/03/2024 23:44

I'm the same! I get irrationally angry when my troughing Grin is disturbed and I don't like sharing food either.

Before I sat down to my dinner tonight, I made sure that the front door was unlocked for my daughter getting home. She had forgotten her key and I knew I'd be snappy if she interrupted my salmon and mash Blush

Risun · 06/03/2024 23:44

Some pronoun slippage OP? No surprises there.

WhereTheFuckIsMyFuckingCoat · 06/03/2024 23:49

DarkheartsDontMatter · 06/03/2024 23:39

Thankyou @WhereTheFuckIsMyFuckingCoat For typing my thoughts exactly!
What an absoloute fucking shitshow of a marriage. Those poor kids. They probably perform well at school because they're happier there than at home!

Thank you Flowers, and I agree. It sounds like school is where they are thriving, because they have order and peace there, unlike at home.

Doone22 · 07/03/2024 20:34

MM1972 · 06/03/2024 00:16

I have blown my top recently. I've exploded with anger after just sitting down to eat and my partner has started to tell me I must do something. I've requested to be allowed to finish eating but they continue repeatedly telling me I must do this that or the other. On one occasion I scraped my dinner, which I'd just prepared myself, into the bin, turned my phone off and drove to McDonald's.
The same thing happens when
using the bathroom.

I have lunch at work on the hoof and really only get to sit down at dinner and going to the bathroom.
Personally I would never order my partner to do anything. I ask for their help if needed.

I would never shout orders at someone when they are using the bathroom or when they have just sat down to eat.

Is my need to be able to eat without having someone bark the same instructions at me over and over unreasonable? Perhaps a sign of autism? Or is my partner unreasonable for not allowing me to eat in peace?

Can't quite believe you've not killed them all. They're in the wrong.

BlondeAussie · 08/03/2024 01:22

MorrisZapp · 06/03/2024 10:01

You can't leave this twat because you don't have enough money, but they spend thousands of pounds on shite which you pay for, in a rented house, while your own bought house is down the road?

You'd be massively better off without them?

Summed up beautifully.

Every update just gets worse. There are so many problems in this relationship, wanting to eat dinner in peace is only a very minor symptom of much bigger causes :(

MM1972 · 08/03/2024 12:43

WhereTheFuckIsMyFuckingCoat · 06/03/2024 23:49

Thank you Flowers, and I agree. It sounds like school is where they are thriving, because they have order and peace there, unlike at home.

I'm hoping it's their hereditary intelligence they got from me. I had an awful time starting secondary school and did just enough to scrape through until GCSE and A-Level when I got straight As.
I did poorly in an induction test which the teachers told us not to worry about. Perhaps taking them literally I didn't try. I got the lowest mark in the school as I gave it no effort and didn't wear my glasses. As a result teachers assumed I was a dunce and gave no encouragement.
I've never heard of pupils excelling because of an unhappy home life but I'll look it up. More often unruly pupils are trying to get attention because they get nothing at home.

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