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[quote=Anonymous]My DH has also had declining table manners with age. It's really frustrating. We had soup last night and he sat there slurping every spoonful. And you are right, he wouldn't do that in a restaurant at someone else's house, because he's self aware enough to recognize this is tacky AF. But he'll do it in front of me and the kids for some reason. I don't get it.

He's also lax about napkin use at home, gets more food on his face, scrapes the plates with his knife and fork, etc. Again, never like this when we were dating, doesn't do it in public.

He was raised by people without great manners but learned them in college (scholarship kid at an Ivy) and I think a lot of it is just him regressing to how his family behaved when he was growing up.

Recently I walked in on him in the kitchen swigging lemonade straight from the carton and was really grossed out. "You weren't supposed to see that" he said. So now I have to assume all the beverages in the refrigerator have his backwash in them because he's doing this disgusting thing behind my back, which he knows is gross and that's why he hides it, and yet he still can't be bothered to just get out a glass, pour some lemonade in it, and stick it in the dishwasher afterwards.

I sometimes wish I'd thought more critically about his upbringing before marrying him, but the thing is I'm not some upper crust, refined person. My parents were middle class. But I learned some manners from them and refined them as an adult and then stuck with it because I believe having good manners is respectful and better than having poor manners.[/quote]

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