Just cannot take wife controlling food choices anymore. Divorce?

[Anonymous]

Sympathies. Korean is my LEAST favorite cuisine. I cannot imagine 7 days a week. Be a man! Say I want my pizza!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sympathies. Korean is my LEAST favorite cuisine. I cannot imagine 7 days a week. Be a man! Say I want my pizza!

If you want pizza before Korean you're a malfunctioning human. Also, same if you think the OP said he eats Korean seven days a week. Don't ever say you want your pizza unless you are six and are at a bowling alley birthday party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wife constantly, coooooooooooooooonstantly only ever wants to eat Korean food whenever we order or go out. I am so sick of it to the point I am so internally angry I want to explode. If my wife doesn't get her way wrt food, she complains nonstop and whines like a damn child.

Look, I like Korean food, don't get me wrong, but I just do not want to have it for the 1000th time in a row. Yes, I have utter contempt for my wife who gets to have 99% of the control over what goes into our mouths and what I get to eat for dinner. Maybe once in a while I want pizza? Maybe every so often I want something as simple as a damn burger? I love Middle Eastern, Turkish, Greek, etc. types of foods, but because she doesn't like it we are forced to never eating it. Meanwhile I let her have Korean 100% of the time whenever she wants even though it is probably ranked 15th on my list for most favorite types of cuisines.


I am getting sick of it to the point I am considering a divorce. Am I crazy? The controlling freak nature she has over my dietary choices has gotten intolerable. Maybe I want more food diversity in my life besides Asian food. I want to punch a hole through a wall I am so angry over this issue.

Why just divorce a food monogamist. You should make a humanitarian appeal to United Nations to force Korean dictator to take his sister back or bribe her gastroenterologist to alter her gut flora to hate Korean food or get a hypnotist/priest to get her out of this Korean food voodoo magic.

On a serious note, why not take turns or coin toss or just order from two different places and eat together?

Maybe the coin toss would work, but you don't know the person you're dealing with. Heads? Korean. Tails? Korean.

Wouldn't matter one bit..

Are you using North Korean coins or South Korean ones?

[Anonymous]

Go on hunger strike and call press and influencers to question her about this inhumane behavior.

[Anonymous]

Make her finish whole season of longest K drama in one sitting.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like your wife does all the cooking, and has a strong preference for a cuisine. Your ways out are to a) take over some of the cooking yourself, so you can have ALLLL the cream and oregano you want and b) take turns like mature adults, so you only have to eat Korean food 26 times a year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:why does she control you? You can't say no? I'd eat whatever the hell I want and let her whine. Then I'd go to another room or put some headphones on.

You sound more broken than the OP, which is impressive.

No, this sounds like a good solution under the circumstances.

[Anonymous]

The real problem is that you have become emasculated. You need to grow a pair:

[Anonymous]

Learn to cook

[Anonymous]

Is she Korean?

Or is she a Bon Chon addict?

Wtf?

[Anonymous]

Simply explain to her it’s making you miserable and from here on you will take turns choosing. Politely ask her to be a grownup about it when it’s not her turn. Done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Simply explain to her it’s making you miserable and from here on you will take turns choosing. Politely ask her to be a grownup about it when it’s not her turn. Done.

And accept you’ll be having Korean every other order. Nbd.

[Anonymous]

Just curious where you live OP. I am Korean American and am in Seoul right now where it’s absolutely a food lover’s paradise. There are so many food options not just Korean. In the DMV a lot of restaurants have gone out of business or gone downhill post covid so I don’t like to eat out that much which includes Korean food. It’s just not worth the money anymore. Don’t see why you need to eat the same thing. My family of four have different food allergies etc and we often eat 4 different meals for dinner.

[Anonymous]

What does she say when you talk to her about this? Would taking "turns" with picking restaurants work?

[Anonymous]

Korean American married to a non Korean here. We have a wide variety of food in our home and our three kids also have very different food preferences.

My mom is Korean Korean and she only likes to eat Korean food. She will eat Japanese or Chinese but still prefers Korean.

I know many Koreans married to non Koreans and I don’t know one person who only eats Korean. Heck, I just got back from Korea and people in Korea eat non Korean food in KOREA.

In my family of five, two kids prefer Asian food to American and one kid doesn’t like Asian food. We take turns picking where we want to eat take out from. The kid who doesn’t like Asian food loves Mexican food while the other 2 do not. We still put Mexican in the mix but less frequently.

I don’t see why you can’t cook the food you want to eat or get DoorDash. Thankfully my Dh doesn’t isn’t picky with food. I have one Asian friend married to a white guy who mostly eats pizza, pasta and burgers. It drives her crazy how unhealthy he eats. It is less about Asian vs American food and more about nutrition.