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[quote=Anonymous]OP, my husband also refuses to eat dinner with us. In his case, honestly I think it's a kind of eating disorder - dinner was the only thing we fought about before we got married. He insisted that he didn't eat dinner. He came to the US as a refugee, and his family became very disordered and had very little money. He claims he never had an experience with "family meals" although he has a sibling who seems to have had a normal family life (but spend much of her life obese.) I grew up with a wonderful family where even weekday dinners were served by candlelight (something I hope to replicate once my youngest passes the age of being obsessed with blowing out candles.)

I sort of gave up the fight. I have a nice dinner with kids, and he does usually eat something as well, just often in another room. He is very engaged with family life, but it's like he lacks the food gene - he could eat cardboard or a gourmet meal or nothing at all, and it really wouldn't bother/excite him much one way or another. Our marriage isn't perfect or anything close to it, but I decided this wasn't going to be the hill I die on. Maybe it should be, but life is too short and people are too complicated for that.[/quote]

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