Is not allowing my husband to cook scrambled eggs in the morning an unreasonable request?

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He wants to cook them five times a week but only cooks them once because the smell bothers you. That sounds like a reasonable compromise. Find another place in the house to work or go to a coffee shop to work for a few hours once a week, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s unreasonable. Buy a better kitchen hood vent.

Does a vent exist to have no cooking smells? I find that a little hard to believe. I don't think our vent is bad. We live in a nice home.

You live in a nice home, but one that has no other space you could work in?

A "nice" home, with no vent, no windows that open, no other spaces to work, and small enough that the smells permeate. Methinks OP is fibbing.

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I love eggs! I also eat stinky foods often, like kimchi. Unless you’re pregnant (when I was pregnant I couldn’t stand almost any smell) it’s unreasonable.

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Buy a respirator on Amazon for like 20 bucks.
You won’t smell a thing and probably will make you more attractive.

You sound like a terrible person to be married to.

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Why have several posters made the exception for pregnancy? Others deserve the right to avoid wrenching and vomiting too.
Like other posters have mentioned, I too wasn't smell sensitive until pregnancy. I was looking forward to the symptom disappearing but it only got more sensitive. It was also much worse after giving birth because vomiting often means involuntary peeing (something else that didnt happen before being pregnant).

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Get a better vent that vents outside and not recirculates air. We have a powerful hood and i can cook most anything without smells in tbe house. Outside it will smell a ton - ive tested it.

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That’s very controlling op.

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Anonymous wrote:I would be upset if my spouse asked me not to cook a totally normal breakfast food in my own house. It’s not like he’s frying tuna. 🤣

I got that reference (except it’s LIGHTLY fried tuna, thank you very much).

We’ve both been here too long.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish my husband ate healthy eggs for breakfast instead of cereal like a toddler, which is making him fat.

You think cereal is only for toddlers?

NP but I mean it kinda is. Most American cereals are one step up from taking some mashed up cookies and pouring milk over them, lets be real. Perfect for a little kid's palate

So non-American cereals are okay? Which cereals are those

NP. stop being obtuse and read the labels. Cereal is su[er processed and loaded with sugar. Nothing nutritional about it.

Organic raisin bran is fine. So are plain cheerios

You've invoked the wrath of Lord Keto.

iT’s ThE sAmE aS CoOkIeS

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Anonymous wrote:I have never encountered so many people with "scent sensitivities" in real life as I do here on DCUM. Is this just a new way to complain about something to get attention?

Yes. It’s the new gluten.

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Open a window.

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Anonymous wrote:I would be upset if my spouse asked me not to cook a totally normal breakfast food in my own house. It’s not like he’s frying tuna. 🤣

I got that reference (except it’s LIGHTLY fried tuna, thank you very much).

We’ve both been here too long.

🤣🤣

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Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty unhealthy for him, too. However, if he wants to accelerate his prostrate cancer, maybe he’d be willing to use an induction burner on the porch to cook his eggs

The word you are looking for is prostate.

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Anonymous wrote:Easy solution. If he wants eggs, he can go out on the porch and scramble them up on a portable stove. You can get one very cheaply. At least when the weather is tolerable he can do that.

Easy solution. He can cook his eggs in the frigging KITCHEN once a week and OP can either cope or work elsewhere in her “beautiful house.”

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Anonymous wrote:Buy some candles.

+1. I did actually develop an aversion to a bunch of food smells.when I was pregnant (like I like onions but first trimester the smell of the cooking would make me gag, it was weird). Just burn a candle.

I am 100% team DH, but all candles do is add another scent on top of the existing one. It’s like scented cat litter — now your house just smells like poop AND flowers.