To ask how you created a monster?

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Things you used to like despite DP mocking them, but which they have now commandeered and got waaaaay too into. Mine:

Trademe (NZ ebay) - Place is starting to look like a used car yard.
Shakti mat - Now thinks he's some sort of bloody yogi and it's the cure for anything that ails him.
St John's Wort - ditto, cure for everything.
Nutrient Rescue Shots (powdered greens) - has declared he doesn't need to eat veg anymore as he has these (mine) instead. 🙄

Surely it's not just me ladies? 😅

Good whisky….

When I met mine he was drinking cheap stuff now he’s a snob and only likes the good (expensive stuff)

When we met, I had a PlayStation… he had never gamed… now he’s the only one that does. (Although I wouldn’t call him a gamer).

Airfare … not sure when it happened, but I’m the only one that buys air tickets… he was uncomfortable yet content in coach…now it’s business class (although that could be my monster)

In our house the best example is probably coffee. He didn't touch it before we met unless he required it to stay awake. He now grinds his own beans from local roasteries and has a fancy coffee maker. I am however perfectly in support of his coffee conversion process, especially when me makes it for me!

I encouraged my dh to start running in lockdown and now he’s a total running wanker 🤦‍♀️ complete with “recovery run” strava status, energy gels, and discussing his split times (which he likes to do last thing at night when he looks at his phone and likes to talk me through it….). He’s done one race, 18 months ago, and he talks about it like he’s Mo Farrah-

I’m actually a runner myself, and I’m quite fast, and I’m not an #RW

Cycling...

I cycled to work and back, started cycling a bit further, started a little cycling group though a.SW group I was kart if, used to go for weekly rides 7-10 miles etc. DH came along one time in his old mountain bike.

Next week he had a road bikes lycra,.new helmet.... Month later ride London to Brighton... Year later ride Lands End to John O'groats in 9 days.

Spear bedroom has a carbon bike and a trainer in it, I am subjected to Strava timings, should I do this race? Shall I do that? PBs etc.

I don't even have a bike anymore!!

Eats my low fat biscuits and breadsticks and never replaces them

I came onto the thread to say "gentle parenting"....

Wine - when I met my husband 20 years ago he only drank bitter or lager, we joked that he was a 'cheap date!'.
I used to buy a bottle of wine for myself on a Friday night and a few cans for him, probably cost about a tenner at the time.
For some bizarre reason known only to stupid younger me I was determined to get him to like wine (probably thought he would look more sophisticated with a glass!) and started him gently on the cheap low percentage rose.
He is now a complete wine fiend and loves expensive (for us) red wine.

I should have left him to his lager.

Reported

Gentle parenting doesn't produce monsters in children. Permissive and lazy parenting produces monsters.

A skinflint. When we met I was the one who was more cautious about money - DP was not very careful at all. He absorbed my caution and has taken it to a new level.

I encouraged dds bug obsession and now share my home with a giant millipede, a praying mantis, a collection of flower beetles and about a million isopods. Its a surprisingly expensive hobby.

Gotta love those MAMILs! 🤣

Can't believe I'm admitting this......Made In Chelsea (used to be my guilty pleasure and now I am not allowed to watch alone! 🤣)

I created a formula 1 monster. DH never watched it until he met me, whereas I've watched it all my life. Whereas now he watches it and goes away with the "lads" for F1 weekends while I have the kids

Exercise. I got really into my health and encouraged dh . He's now lost 3 stone (weighs less than me sob) tracings 5x a week. Makes protien shakes. Won't touch sugar. It's so dull.

Actually gentle parenting too lol. I think I’m going to cry if I hear “behaviour is communication” one more time. He spends a lot of time acknowledging her feelings. He went from victorian dad to hippy within the time it took for her to be born. It’s ok he cracked and made a star chart for behaviour.

Oh and low carb, Dh lost a ton of weight and I’m still fat. Wtf.

I don’t live with my long term partner so he has copied things from me in his house.
Aquarium keeping. He got a bigger and better fish tank in his house and his tank inhabitants are more dramatic.

I gave him some of my sourdough starter and now he’s making bigger and better loaves.

Oh my goodness @Greenleavesandgrass , I've just looked at a picture of giant millipedes and actually laughed out loud, they look fantastic! 🤩 Are they really tickly when they walk up your arm?

My friend created a monster in a similar way, but for her it was because she was brought up to be terrified of spiders, snails, moths etc and she didn't want to put those fears on to her daughter in turn. She worked so incredibly hard to conquer her fears, and now her DD is 12 and has a tarantula and several giant African land snails! (I'm not too bad with the tarantula myself but just can't allow the snails to touch me!)

Edited to add, sorry it's not a DP thing, I got excited about the millipedes!

Houseplants. When we met he had one tiny cactus in his room that he totally ignored and only got water by being given very occasional dregs of cold tea (or beer). I had lovely big houseplants and he really got into them and fusses over them constantly — and weirdly, treats me like I’m borderline incompetent to look after them?! (He doesn’t do this about anything else, don’t worry! He’s not undermining me in a proper way, he’s just fucking annoying on this topic haha.)

Similar to mine.
I used to tease him about drinking instant coffee and refuse to allow him to serve it to guests.
Now, it’s a thing of his… ironic, because, sadly, I can no longer drink coffee.
(He does make me tea though)

Carnivore diet.

He buys a half cow and butchers it himself. Bought a chest freezer for the garage for said mountain of cow. We have a plancha, a standard bbq and a smoker in the garden. He has 3 Bluetooth meat thermometers and a dehydrator to make his own jerky.

Plus he’s the leanest and strongest he’s ever been. Bastard has abs. Meanwhile I’m just trying to keep my autoimmune disease in remission 🤪

Gin, it was me that drank the gin, me who collected different brands and flavours and now he drinks them all before I get a look in.

😂😂😂😂 Me too!