Food is a central part of most cultures. We stuff ourselves silly on holidays, emphasize the benefits of family meal time, spend an incredible percentage of our paychecks at the grocery store, and give food as gifts and tokens of welcome. In America especially, food has emotional ties as well. When something great happens to us, we call up our friends for drinks and dinner. When we want to do something nice for a loved one, we cook for them or take them out to a restaurant. Some of us turn to food when we're sad, depressed, or bored. It's nearly impossible to get away from food issues in daily life.
Knowing all this, what do you do when you fall in love with someone whose views on food are completely different from your own? How do you make holidays work? How do you pick a restaurant? What do you feed your children? How do you grocery shop? Who sacrifices what? Who makes dinner? Food choices impact so many areas of our lives, and most of us would never know it unless it suddenly became an issue.
Food became an issue for me when I met Nathan in 2010 and fell stupidly in love with him. In the beginning, he grinned painfully as I trotted him through Thai restaurants and sushi bars, and I embraced my inner junk food addict when he shared his pringles and mountain dew. It was okay when we weren't living together, though neither of us was all that thrilled with the other's eating habits. Now that we've been living together for a year, though, the kid gloves have come off. All couples have that one thing they fight about all the time, and for us, it's FOOD.
Honey, I love you, but your food SUCKS.
We are opposite in every possible way when it comes to food. What issues come up, and what are the solutions? How do we make it work? Are we seriously getting married despite all this?
This blog will contain all these answers and more. Welcome, enjoy the ride, and try not to starve your loved ones.
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