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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have only read the OP thus far, but ugh! In fact, I told DH just last night that I cannot wait until I can start making dinners that I want to eat vs. having to care so much about what everyone else wants.

In my defense, for years I enjoyed cooking and preparing my kid's lunch box, making sure there were healthy and tasty meals 3x/day. My kid loved everything I made for him/us.

Then middle school kicked in and the complaints started. (i know this is a teen thing - I did the same thing!) But he'd say:  I'm not taking a lunch box to school; everyone orders from the school cafeteria. Yuck, but ok, at least he gets 2 decent meals/day. Then at dinner, came this: Why do we have the same thing all the time? Oh, I was over at Johnny's house and they had THE BEST dinner.  Why don't we ever have anything here to eat? (not true). Covid happened and we started ordering out a lot.

High school comes, and now he doesn't want to order out but wants meals cooked again. But, I am so over the complaints and dissatisfaction with whatever we come up with for dinner. I say we because I have handed the dinner responsibility over to DH now.  Sometimes I feel guilty but mostly I do not.

When I do cook though, I hate it because DH works late and DS is busy with after school stuff, weekend sports and I loathe cooking alone. Or find myself spending an hour or so with dinner and then they come home and say, oh, i already ate. Wasted hours cooking. And did I mention the kid will not eat leftovers? Or, if I don't cook when he's out because I think DS may be eating elsewhere, he'll come home, open the fridge, sigh and say, Where's the dinner?

Sorry for the rant - I am so over the dinner thing and though I'll miss him when he goes to college I am looking forward to having soup and salad (or something similarly easy) every night and that will be fine for Dh & me!

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PP here again. Please skip over my rant.  I thought this was a post about complaining teens.  :oops: [/quote]

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