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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband would eat eggs with buttered toast & a coffee every morning if he could. I don't have an aversion to eating scrambled eggs at a restaurant but the smell when they're cooked at home drives me insane, likely made worse by that being the first thing to smell when I wake up. It's right up there with fish, which I do not cook or eat. I also work remotely in the kitchen area, while he heads to an office, so any faint lingering smell of cooked eggs bothers me after he departs. He's down to cooking them once a week or so (today, of course) instead of the five or so times a week he'd like to make them, but I'd prefer he stop period.

LOL, I could have written this exact post (and the fish, yuck!!).

We have an oven hood. Still, that egg smell makes its way upstairs into the hallway. First thing I smell exiting the bedroom.
Fortunately I go to the office a few days a week and have my home office upstairs with a closed door.

No suggestions, but I commiserate with you.

[Anonymous]

This does seem a little unreasonable to me, unless it was for some temporary reason like being pregnant and super sensitive to smells. As someone who loves eggs for breakfast I would definitely not be happy. But also smell-oversensitive people are just so annoying and persnickety in general. Are you a picky eater as well?

[Anonymous]

Get a blackstone griddle and he can cook them outside if you have outdoor space for that.

[Anonymous]

Get over your aversion to the smell. It’s a psychological issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a blackstone griddle and he can cook them outside if you have outdoor space for that.

No, he has a perfectly good kitchen. Do you normally treat your spouse like a dog and put him out when you don't like what he is doing?

[Anonymous]

Yes unreasonable.

Exceptions are pregnancy or going through something like chemo

Fan , diffuser or candle to help with smell.

[Anonymous]

Completely unreasonable.

[Anonymous]

You yourself eat scrambled eggs but won't let him make them. He's not asking you to make them. Open the window.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband would eat eggs with buttered toast & a coffee every morning if he could. I don't have an aversion to eating scrambled eggs at a restaurant but the smell when they're cooked at home drives me insane, likely made worse by that being the first thing to smell when I wake up. It's right up there with fish, which I do not cook or eat. I also work remotely in the kitchen area, while he heads to an office, so any faint lingering smell of cooked eggs bothers me after he departs. He's down to cooking them once a week or so (today, of course) instead of the five or so times a week he'd like to make them, but I'd prefer he stop period.

YES. You are out of line

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get over your aversion to the smell. It’s a psychological issue.

It's not psychological by any stretch. People who have a better sense of smell can detect things that are factually present when others cannot detect them at all. If it's bad enough it can cause a physical reaction like vomit.

Op, I don't think you are being overly harsh with your request and consider how few smell sensitive posters there are compared to this majority of nose blind posters who will never understand and thus come in attacking you (like sulfuric odors)

[Anonymous]

Unreasonable.

He's already compromising to one day a week. It's time for you to find a different work space.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:2.5mg THC.

Yes, please tell this to my DH. There are like 20 foods he can't be around and I get a big reaction if there's ever an after smell in the kitchen. Now we have a bigger house and he can retreat if I want to make popcorn or eggs, but our youngest has the same issue and was sitting alone at school lunches because kids kept bringing yogurt. I feel for you OP as I navigate this with a child. It's a tough way to go through life!

You do realize you don't have to indulge these ridiculous behaviors, right? RIGHT?

I don't indulge all of them, but I did get called into pre-k over the lunch issue, and the teachers seemed to think that having my DC eat lunch at a table alone was the only viable solution because she'd start dry heaving at certain smells and one time threw up over the smell of yogurt. DH is the same way, though more able to control it as an adult. We've don't go to movies because he has such a strong reaction to the smell of popcorn. If you have a solution, I'm all ears.

[Anonymous]

It just depends on how you are with everything else. If you’re an easy going, rational person on everything else, it would be easy to grant you this one bizarre indulgence. But it is pretty nuts.

[Anonymous]

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?