Those of you with partners - how often do they make dinner? More specifically, a dinner they have chosen to make?
My partner will, on occasion, make a dinner I have requested, after I have meal planned for the week. So, week in, week out, I am the one planning the meals - and trying to keep things interesting, yet still within the parameters of what our 2 children will also eat, doing the shop, and then cooking the vast majority of meals. I don't enjoy cooking, I don't enjoy thinking of meals, but that's life. Needs must.
I have said to my partner numerous times that I would like it if before I do the shop, he would come to me with a list of ingredients that he needs to cook a meal of his choice for the 4 of us. Basically, I just want a little break from this chore and for him to pick up the slack every now and then. As of yet, it hasn't happened.
To make matters worse, he wants to invite his parents around for dinner more frequently. I said I don't enjoy cooking for others, so he said he'd do it. Which just screams to me that he would be willing to make the effort that I have asked him for if his parents are involved, but not just for me. To me, that's not the break I have asked for. That's actually adding on to my plate because all of a sudden, I'm hosting.
AIBU to be hugely pissed off at this?