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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one in my family ever wants to make the deciding choice -- the response is always "I don't know" or "I don't care." It's exhausting to have be the one who has to make all the decisions, but then again, if you can decide you don't really care if it's not the one people secretly are hoping for, then it's also kind of liberating. You just make the decision and if others are displeased they can do / eat /watch something else.[/quote]

My husband's family is like this.  They think expressing a preference is rude and pushy.  Meanwhile, his mom and brother will get annoyed if they don't get their way, even though they never actually expressed a preference.  It drives me up a wall.  [/quote]

I think they do express it but in very subtle ways[/quote]

And how’s that working out for them? Speak up, use your words, clear is kind. If you can’t open your mouth and discuss what you want, too bad. Oh well. Life goes on. We’re not fortune tellers or interpreters of your innermost thoughts. You have a mouth, you can open it.[/quote]

Saying you need time to think about something before making a decision is using your words.

[b]I think OP’s DH knows that his wife doesn’t actually care about his preferences since she won’t give him time to figure those out. [/b][/quote]

NP. This is ridiculously dramatic. Like…it was a Chick-Fil-A order and “Do you want to see Migration today?”[/quote]

Reminds me of a guy I dated years ago. He’d spend several minutes at the counter at McDonald’s asking for details about different items. Thought it was unreasonable that you can’t wear something for a few months and then return it for a full refund because you decided you didn’t like it. 
Ultimately broke up with me because there weren’t enough parking options near my house. He broke up with the woman before me because she tried to hold his hand once and he’s not into hand holding and this was “a trauma”. [/quote]
OMG, you dodged a bullet![/quote]

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