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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait! Another perspective. My BIL never eats with his family, and always eats chips or other crappy food.

He was deemed a picky eater his entire life. It is disordered eating, and he knows it, and it embarrasses him. The New York Times even did wrote about adult picky eaters years ago, and it is truly a psychological issue.

My BIL will sit at the table while his family eats, and never ate the chips (usually covered in cheese) in front of his kids when they were small. But it takes an effort for him to even be around food he won't eat.

Sorry, OP - my sister has hated this for their whole marriage. And this isn't necessarily your DH's issue, but is it possible?[/quote]
She didn't pick up on this when they were dating?[/quote]

So even though I posed the story about my BIL when this thread first appeared (2014 I think?), I'm still around. She knew about the disordered eating, but when they went out to dinner they always chose places where he could get something he liked. They didn't live together before getting married so they didn't share that many meals at home. Plus he agreed that it was important for him to be present for dinners with the kids, so he did, as I said, sit at the table. But the kids did notice as they got older than he wasn't actually eating with them. That wasn't ideal, especially since it made them think that they shouldn't have to eat the dinner mom cooked, either. [/quote]

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