Argument stemming from husband's Perrier sparkling water addiction. Who's in the wrong?

[Anonymous]

Can we trade husbands? I wish Perrier was our biggest issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I swear I think people make s**t up to get on the DCUM Hall of Fame list. This was a good effort, but didn’t pack enough of a punch.

But it was kinds of impactful in an effervescent kind of way. I liked how you can almost feel OPs anger and resentment bubbling to the surface every time she shops.

[Anonymous]

If it is sharing or desire to drink from glass saybso.

If it helps put things in perspective swap out 1L of whiskey.......

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Husband drinks a 1L bottle of Perrier every night, sometimes cracking an additional one after dinner. As in, the size we use for the table, he will grab his own and drink the entire thing during dinner, while the rest of the table is content to share one 1L bottle. They only cost about $1-2/each, but it bothers me so much. I encourage him to just drink still filtered tap if he's so dehydrated but he refuses. I do the shopping, so lugging all the 1L bottles every week is a real chore, plus recycling all of them, and isn't it sort of gluttonous and unseemly. I think he started cracking the additional bottles after dinner just to tick me off.

Sparkling water is methodone for soda ... or beer.

Is he drinking it to avoid one of those?

If so, let it go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Husband drinks a 1L bottle of Perrier every night, sometimes cracking an additional one after dinner. As in, the size we use for the table, he will grab his own and drink the entire thing during dinner, while the rest of the table is content to share one 1L bottle. They only cost about $1-2/each, but it bothers me so much. I encourage him to just drink still filtered tap if he's so dehydrated but he refuses. I do the shopping, so lugging all the 1L bottles every week is a real chore, plus recycling all of them, and isn't it sort of gluttonous and unseemly. I think he started cracking the additional bottles after dinner just to tick me off.

Sparkling water is methodone for soda ... or beer.

Is he drinking it to avoid one of those?

If so, let it go.

What? I've been drinking sparkling water for a good 25 years. It replaced my diet soda habit. My husband and kids drink it, too.

It is actually good to keep yourself hydrated by drinking lots of water - including sparkling water. Try it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: They're cheaper than a Starbucks habit.

He buys them himself, lugs them himself. Done.

To be clear, it's not the 6-pack of tiny bottles, I'm talking big 1L bottle tables are supposed to share. I was raised that sparkling water is more-so a palate cleanser, it's uncouth to lap it up like you just finished a sportball match. Drives me up a wall to see all those empty 1L bottles stacking up.

Clearly you were raised by idiots. Water is not a palate cleanser, it's meant to be drunk, not sipped like a fine wine. It is not uncouth to actually drink it in larger quantities as long as you are using a glass to do it.

Also, the apple has not fallen far from the tree.


Team DH by a long shot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Husband drinks a 1L bottle of Perrier every night, sometimes cracking an additional one after dinner. As in, the size we use for the table, he will grab his own and drink the entire thing during dinner, while the rest of the table is content to share one 1L bottle. They only cost about $1-2/each, but it bothers me so much. I encourage him to just drink still filtered tap if he's so dehydrated but he refuses. I do the shopping, so lugging all the 1L bottles every week is a real chore, plus recycling all of them, and isn't it sort of gluttonous and unseemly. I think he started cracking the additional bottles after dinner just to tick me off.

Sparkling water is methodone for soda ... or beer.

Is he drinking it to avoid one of those?

If so, let it go.

What? I've been drinking sparkling water for a good 25 years. It replaced my diet soda habit. My husband and kids drink it, too.

It is actually good to keep yourself hydrated by drinking lots of water - including sparkling water. Try it!

You've illustrated the PP's point perfectly. You used sparkling water to replace your diet soda habit in the same way an addict uses methadone to end his habit.

[Anonymous]

I couldn't read through so many responses on this silly topic, so forgive me if this has been stated before. BUY A SODA STREAM SECRETLY. FILL AN EMPTY PERRIER BOTTLE WITH THE SODA STREAM SPARKLING WATER. AFTER TWO DAYS, ASSUMING HE HASN't COMMENTED ON THE TASTE, TELL HIM HE'S BEEN DRINKING SODA STREAM. Boom! Argument over!

[Anonymous]

I seriously question the intelligence of adults who require bubbles in their water in order for them to be able to drink it.

It’s also not great for your teeth. Better than sofa, but plain water is still best.
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-and-nutrition-quackery/carbonated-water-bad-your-teeth

[Anonymous]

How many women are reading this whose husbands are addicted to smelly cigars or multiple pours of scotch every night...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Husband drinks a 1L bottle of Perrier every night, sometimes cracking an additional one after dinner. As in, the size we use for the table, he will grab his own and drink the entire thing during dinner, while the rest of the table is content to share one 1L bottle. They only cost about $1-2/each, but it bothers me so much. I encourage him to just drink still filtered tap if he's so dehydrated but he refuses. I do the shopping, so lugging all the 1L bottles every week is a real chore, plus recycling all of them, and isn't it sort of gluttonous and unseemly. I think he started cracking the additional bottles after dinner just to tick me off.

Sparkling water is methodone for soda ... or beer.

Is he drinking it to avoid one of those?

If so, let it go.

What? I've been drinking sparkling water for a good 25 years. It replaced my diet soda habit. My husband and kids drink it, too.

It is actually good to keep yourself hydrated by drinking lots of water - including sparkling water. Try it!

that amount of sparking water is bad for your teeth.

[Anonymous]

Where did OP go? Are you ever coming back? Begging forgiveness from your dh?

[Anonymous]

you need to divorce this guy ASAP. start a different thread for a good lawyer, cause one who has only dealt with cheating spouses is not going to get you what you deserve.

the lawyer with experience in 1L sparkling water consumption will get you that deserving pay day and permanent custody of your kids.

good luck!

[Anonymous]

This thread sounds like it needs to be taken to the explicit forum. Ive clutched my pearls so hard reading all of this, I cant believe its lasted this long in the non-explicit forum.

Wow. Just wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Husband drinks a 1L bottle of Perrier every night, sometimes cracking an additional one after dinner. As in, the size we use for the table, he will grab his own and drink the entire thing during dinner, while the rest of the table is content to share one 1L bottle. They only cost about $1-2/each, but it bothers me so much. I encourage him to just drink still filtered tap if he's so dehydrated but he refuses. I do the shopping, so lugging all the 1L bottles every week is a real chore, plus recycling all of them, and isn't it sort of gluttonous and unseemly. I think he started cracking the additional bottles after dinner just to tick me off.

Sparkling water is methodone for soda ... or beer.

Is he drinking it to avoid one of those?

If so, let it go.

What? I've been drinking sparkling water for a good 25 years. It replaced my diet soda habit. My husband and kids drink it, too.

It is actually good to keep yourself hydrated by drinking lots of water - including sparkling water. Try it!

You've illustrated the PP's point perfectly. You used sparkling water to replace your diet soda habit in the same way an addict uses methadone to end his habit.

I know! That PP totally missed the point of how the original person was saying sparkling water will help you replace a soda habit. How could she have missed that!!! Do people not read before posting?