Food Habits

thegreeneyedkri

I thought I was walking into a "my FI has so much junk food in the house that I'm getting fat now because I have no self control to not eat it".  Boy, was I wrong.

I have plenty of friends who are strict vegetarians (and vegans as well) who would never try to tell you what you can eat.  It is a personal choice that cannot be forced upon anyone.  If we go out to eat, even my vegan friends don't scorn me if I order meat.  My FI lived with his vegetarian roommate for 6 years and never had a problem with cooking meat in the house.  I definitely find it wrong to tell someone that they cannot eat meat (or cook any) in their own home, especially forcing someone to be a vegetarian (which is what your wording made it sound like) in order to be in a relationship with them. 

If you want to be a vegetarian (pescatarian, eating fish and all) then that is fine.  But I'm guessing there is some part of you that is upset by this or else you would not have come to a public forum to air your concerns.  Talk to him, you can't live the rest of your life abiding by his rules with no room for compromise (and letting you have a little fish every now and then when you eat out is NOT compromise, especially if you would like to eat it more and already gave up all other meats).

On the vegetarian, pescetarian, vegan note:  I know all my friends who call themselves "vegetarians" will not eat any meat, but are fine with dairy, honey and eggs.  I've also seen one of them tell someone who called themselves a "vegetarian" but still ate fish, that they *weren't* a vegetarian.  All my friends who refer to themselves as "vegan" won't eat anything that comes from an animal at all, including honey.  So that's how I always thought that worked, interesting to se other people's pov's.