Gross Behaviour around eating

[Disco2022]

I've just come out of a week of having Covid/my period and generally feeling rough so I am more than willing to be told to pipe down.

So my boyfriend just moved in, I always knew he made noise when he ate/drank but since it is at every meal and in my space it feels like such a big deal, in fact he just seems to make noise and take up space in everything that he does.

I'm no silent little fairy floating round the house and I've had my fair share of hacking/sneezing in the last week but just want to know should I have a conversation about the following:

(Should add in the caveat that I love him and don't want to leave him over what I can only assume are gross habits developed over years of being alone)

• Tea slurping
• cold drinking slurping
• eats so fast it's like he's a Dickensian street child
• wipes his mouth on the back of his hands.

-CLATTERS his cutlery all over his plate (I heard him eating his weetabix when I was in the shower yesterday)

• blowing nose at the table

Anyway since I've started writing this I could go on. It's making me really sad. I can't just ignore this forever, I don't want to have to remind him not to eat like a monster because that's unsexy.

What is the answer?

Dickensian street child 😂😂😂

FTB

Film The Bastard. Then show the Bastard his own habits and tell him you find it really off putting. He’s unaware and needs some help.

When I first met my husband he’d use a knife and fork like he was made of elbows. Then every time he’d get a forkful in his mouth, he’d chew with a triumphant little head bob. It was honestly like no one had taught him how to eat or he’d never actually seen someone use a knife and fork. I used to say he must’ve been bought up in a cardboard box and only recently emerged into the world, he did so many things in a really bizarre fashion. l found it quite endearing.

I must really love him.

obviously, his family are not too up on table manners!!!! you need to start now and make him concentrate on eating and drinking quietly!! tell him you will not be going anywhere with him until he is eating properly. this must be totally embarrassing for you!

I had this problem.
Ah one mealtime it got too much and I said I love you dearly but if you keep making that racket while eating I'm going to have to kill you

I know this is an old thread but it's a timeless problem