I love my boyfriend, and I can't picture life without him, but sometimes the fact that he isn't vegetarian gets to me. We have been together for nearly 2yrs and I haven't made my diet an issue in our relationship. But since working on my essay about vegetarianism for college, I have been thinking more and more about it.
And it has well angered me a bit. I am so annoyed that people call me preachy when I make a small comment about not eating meat. If I said something about not abusing children no one would say I was being preachy, why is vegetarianism so much different? I am tired of my opinion being made fun of and insulted because it is the minority.
I have tried talking to him about this but I don't feel like he really cares about this. He even said "I thought you weren't the kind of vegetarian that forces her beliefs on other people." He is normally a very considerate person, and he has never really been mean or disrespectful to me because of my diet before. But I feel like I just can't talk to him about this. It didn't bug me when we first dated, but now, I would give anything for him to give up meat.
He knows about factory farms, he knows a vegetarian diet is healthy, he knows it's better for the environment. Nothing I say seems to persuade him. I have done everything I can to keep from being dogmatic about this, but I am extremely frustrated. I want to raise a family with him but I just don't know how I am going to do that if he continues to eat meat.
And it has well angered me a bit. I am so annoyed that people call me preachy when I make a small comment about not eating meat. If I said something about not abusing children no one would say I was being preachy, why is vegetarianism so much different? I am tired of my opinion being made fun of and insulted because it is the minority.
I have tried talking to him about this but I don't feel like he really cares about this. He even said "I thought you weren't the kind of vegetarian that forces her beliefs on other people." He is normally a very considerate person, and he has never really been mean or disrespectful to me because of my diet before. But I feel like I just can't talk to him about this. It didn't bug me when we first dated, but now, I would give anything for him to give up meat.
He knows about factory farms, he knows a vegetarian diet is healthy, he knows it's better for the environment. Nothing I say seems to persuade him. I have done everything I can to keep from being dogmatic about this, but I am extremely frustrated. I want to raise a family with him but I just don't know how I am going to do that if he continues to eat meat.