Perseus wrote:
CaptainCanada wrote:
Having read all the replies on this thread I am shocked at how many of you should grow up and act like adults. When you are a child you don’t generally get to choose what you eat. When you are an adult, it’s ok to not like things.
Just be honest with your wife and tell her that it’s not your favourite dish. Say “thank you for making dinner. It’s cooked very well, but it’s never been my favourite thing.”
That would fine under normal circumstances, but we have had non stop stress lately and spent the day dealing with two sick children. The two year old coughed so much and so hard he threw up on the way to the doctor. Sometimes acting like an adult is sacrificing what you want to bless your spouse.
Sometimes acting like an adult is acting like an adult even when you're exhausted and stressed out and maybe a little angry at your spouse over something, so you talk it out anyway rather than let it stew.
I don't have the kids in the equation but my wife and I differ on what constitutes a meal sometimes too. We switch off the cooking and at some point before food shopping we'll set a general plan for dinners that week, so we're already in agreement from the get-go on what might be on the table. Doesn't always work out that way but it's a start.
From there, I've had nights where she's cooked stuff I could barely stomach (eggplant burgers, almost made me vomit, are an example) and stuff that just wasn't enough 'meat and potatoes' for me--a couple times a soup, or a meatless lasagna that was heavy on starches and carbs but light on protein. Without exception I thank her for cooking (which I do whenever it's her night anyway), then say what wasn't really working for me, or even jsut heating up some other leftover or grabbing a granola bar or whatever, and suggesting next time we also add X to the meal.
doesn't have to be a fight but honesty goes a long way, imo.