Anybody else's husband throw a passive aggressive "I'm not eating dinner tonight"????
Because I forgot to take out meat to defrost for dinner, so I make an easy dinner like grilled cheese toasties, oven pasta bakes etc. The kids love easy dinners, but he gets upset because he feels unappreciated and refuses to eat, makes snippy comments and goes quiet. I admit, this probably happens once a week. It's not an every night occurance.
He would rather go without and it pisses me off.
Husband gets upset when dinner is easy.
Husband gets upset when dinner is easy.
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God he would hate my easy dinners where hubby usually eats cereal.
You have every right to be pissed off. Its not a restaurante and theres nothing wrong with an easy dinner.
I’d be do angry if my husband dared to do that to me. I’d do just easy dinners for a month until he got the message.
Stuff him!
Tell him to grow up and make his own dinner instead of chucking a hissy fit like a toddler! !
Um stuff him, he is a big boy and can make himself a toasted sandwich if I can’t be bothered. Seriously, I wouldn’t put up with my husband acting like a little entitled shit head
Being angry and chucking a disapproving hissy when you dont perform any duty to his expectations is not on.
Well he'd hate to be in my house! I regularly do easy dinners because after working I don't really want to be slaving over a stove for hours. Thankfully my partner doesn't complain about it though.
He needs a reality check. Why does he want your life to be harder? So he can feel like a king for half an hour? My husband always encourages me to make easier meals so I don't have to stress. Tell him to grow up or make his own meal. He might appreciate it more if he makes it himself anyway.
Aw man, I feel angry on your behalf.
I was raised in a way that if someone cooks for you, even if it's just a toastie, a sandwich or something that's not necessarily your favorite - you shut up and eat it and show gratitude or you starve or cook your own.
Under appreciated, what a cheek!
I'd go on complete strike and show him what it really feels like to be under appreciated lol!
Once a week? He needs to get some perspective! I think you'd have trouble finding a family in the country who doesn't have one of those nights every week, if not more!
Wow. Single child or just a selfish baby? Tomorrow, tell him it's his turn to cook.
My ex used to. My partner has always been grateful for what i cook no matter how lazy its creation was. Maybe hubbys turn to cook dinner maybe
Telling him to pull his head in and act like an adult. Seriously, where do you find men like this. You deserve better.
My ex did, my oh now will cook something for him and me, especially if he's not wanting the easy dinner. He'll eat quiche and chips if that's what I decide we're eating. Or spaghetti bog. I usually have premade spat bog sauce in the freezer and cook the pasta in the micro wave 20 mins later and Viola dinner for 5. But if he knows I've had a hard day he'll put together a whole meal and do the dishes afterwards. Tell him to cook if he doesn't want to eat what you've prepared. A real man will do it!
My partner knows better 😂 even if I dish him up a plate of black food because I was busy dealing with two kids or having morning/all day sickness, he’ll put gravy on that shit and say how delicious it was 😂😂 It’s that or he starves for 6 weeks 🤷♀️
Okay that’s lying (I do burn food quite often, I like to cook quickly so I turn it right up and send the food straight to the crematorium and often forget about it 😂) but then I give him a frozen meal or frozen pizza and he’ll be a happy ray of sunshine.
This happens about once a month.
In saying that, usually my easy meals are tacos, spaghetti Bolognese or tuna bake and all three are his favourite meals and he thinks his birthday has come early lol
LOL... I'm so glad I'm not the only one who burns the shit out of everything haha.
I accidentally had my oven on 250 degrees cooking a roast recently, it came out like a piece of molten lava, I tried to serve it up - we ordered a pizza. I was not blessed with the chef gene.
😂😂😂
I was a good cook once, and then I had kids that made out they were from etheopia every time they smelt dinner - so I just try cooking quicker, and sometimes it works, others not so much... but charcoal is good for the teeth so I pretend I’m doing them a favour 😉
My husband made a couple of remarks about my cooking a while back. Guess who now cooks dinner most nights? :D
Euuuuggghhhhhhh!.my dad was like this. Poor mum couldnt even have a night off cooking if she was sick cause dad would crack it...they are now divorced.
He is capable of going to the supermasrket and grabbing some meat and offering to cook! My husband does like 2 to 3 times a week and one night a week we have takeaway.
Tell him to get over it or cook his own!
We cook for ourselves in this house. In the past year I might have cooked a meal for my partner half a dozen times, and then usually because he CBF cooking and just ate my leftovers. When our son was younger his dad cooked dinner for them both as I was a night shift worker, when I changed to day shift I took over cooking for our son and I and dad just had to fend for himself. We have different likes and food preferences so it's just practical for us.
Stuff him. He doesn't like it he can cook it himself. If he had dietary requirements fair enough. Will add my husband hates some of the meals I make but our kids love those meals... he still eats it!
I’m guessing he’s an arse in many other ways too... sorry but you’ll wake up one day and cut this turd loose
Tell him the 1950’s are calling, they want their attitude back...😂
I seriously cannot believe how many households still operate like this, and it’s not just the men (aka boys) that think this, but young women support this shit?!?!?!
FFS ladies, let’s aim for equality and show the next generation how women should be treated!
Original poster here. Thank you for the feedback. I appreciated reading posts from women who have been the same situation as me. Mainly I just needed to vent to other women who understood.
Yes, Im a stay at home mum
I have a five month old, a 2 year old and a newly 4 year old.
He does work 11 hour days, seven days a week, working Dido. Home for 2 weeks and gone for 4 weeks.
Yes, I understand he works hard for his "his" money to provide for us. I'm reminded of this often. Yes he likes things his way and deserves it because he is away from home so much.
But the fact is, I am human too. I never made out I was perfect or a full time domestic goddess and he knew me before we got married and had kids. Thank you to the lovely women who offered suggestions and understanding.
I have been through this and as long as the behaviour is only a trantrum over dinner just ignore it. Whether u a full-time mum or not the fact is that u work full time raising the children and keeping house. If the controlling behaviour extends to put downs, in other areas of the home please talk to someone as another poster suggested this can border on psychological abuse if mixed with control. Remember u are doing your best and u are should be appreciated too.
I'm glad I'm not alone in having a husband that behaves this way! I am a stay at home mum to 7 children, the youngest is 18 months, eldest 13. I cook everynight without fail, I suffered a miscarriage a couple of days ago, on that day I was feeling less than miserable physically, mentally, and emotionally, I cooked spaggi bog, and for the first time ever the pasta wasn't cooked enough, after opening his mouth showing me a mouth full of chewed up pasta, pushed his bowl away, he grabbed a few beers from the fridge, walked out the front door and said just let me be! Needless to say I cooked him up some fresh pasta and 20 minutes later he came back in to a fresh meal telling me it was delicious.... Arrrgh!! (I might add that this house is currently being renovated and doesn't have a kitchen at all, no sink, no bench, no water, no oven, no stovetop, the microwave convection oven that I did have he accidentally dropped the plate and smashed it, so I'm having to be very creative with the electric frypan). He doesn't work long hours like your husband, but he sure complains like he does!