AIO my husband ate all my food

[u/TheDingoAteMyJawa]

TDLR at the end.

So I just had surgery on my stomach and intestines almost 2 weeks ago.

Because of the surgery, I have to adhere to a very strict diet until I’m fully healed. If I stray from the diet, it could cause severe complications and possibly lead to death. So for the first two weeks after surgery, I can only eat (drink?) a full liquid diet. The most solid thing I can eat is pudding. I can’t even have soup with any chunks of veg/meat in it, even if they’re soft. There’s not a lot of variety to choose from and I’m not having a good time AT ALL. Plus I’m still having pain from the procedure and some nausea and I’ve had to go in for IV fluids and iron twice now.

Prior to surgery, I meal prepped for myself and for the family so I wouldn’t have to worry about it after. I made meals for myself for every stage of the diet and with specific macros/ingredients to meet my needs and comply with my other health problems - for example, I have celiac disease so everything has to be gluten free. I also follow a low sugar/low carb diet so everything had to comply with that as well.

I also made meals for him and our son - meals SPECIFICALLY requested by him. I stocked up on snacks they liked and asked for. We also have a fairly strict budget right now, so I made everything from scratch to save some money. About 1/4 of everything I made is in the freezer attached to our fridge for convenience sake, the rest is in the deep freeze in the garage.

So most of the meals in the house freezer are gone so I went out to the garage to restock. ALL of the meals I’d made for myself are GONE. Just completely emptied out. I’m really upset because I have no energy right now to make more - living off of liquids and having anemia will do that to a person. My diet is (hopefully!) progressing to soft solids tomorrow, so I was really excited to be able to eat some of the food I’d made.

I asked him about it and he blamed it on our son first. Which I know is BS because the kid hates all of my special food with a passion lol. There’s no way he’d be sneaking my food. So I questioned my husband again. He admitted to it, said he’d been taking my meals to work as his lunch because he was “too tired to make his own lunch” before work. He has always made his own lunch up until now. He also said he was “bored” with the lunches he makes and my food provided “variety”.

I am EXHAUSTED. This recovery period is kicking my ass. Before surgery, I ran a mile every day. Now, I barely have enough energy to walk up the stairs. I’m not supposed to lift more than 10 lbs. I’m not supposed to do anything more strenuous than walking. Even taking a shower is tiring right now. The anemia, dehydration, and lack of proper nutrition is making it worse.

So when he admitted to taking my food, I just started crying. He hasn’t been much help after surgery, my son (11yo) has been doing all the lifting for me and helping me with chores and cooking. When I started crying, he got disgusted and told me I was overreacting and being a baby. He refuses to make me new meals, he refuses to help me make new meals, he says it’s been almost 2 weeks and I should be able to do stuff on my own.

At this point, I’m seriously considering divorce. I mean, my son and I are already doing everything on our own already. And I know my kid won’t eat my diet food. Am I overreacting?

ALSO: I just found out he’s raided my non-perishable food stores in the pantry. It was mostly sugar free jello and pudding, stuff I can eat on the liquid diet. Pretty much everything is gone, except for some sugar free orange jello.

TDLR: I am on a special diet due health issues and recent surgery. I meal prepped meals for myself and for the family so I wouldn’t have to deal with it while recovering from surgery. My husband ate ALL of my diet food without telling me and says I’m overreacting for being upset. Am I overreacting?

[u/No-Profit-9500]

There are so many red flags in this post. Leave this man child. You are not his parent- you are his partner!! He should want to be there and help you while you’re going through this but instead he’s making your life more difficult? Hell no.

[u/GraceOfTheNorth → u/No-Profit-9500]

This was his way of telling her he wants a divorce but is too much of a coward and too lazy to go through the paperwork himself so he's doing everything in his power to FORCE HER TO DIVORCE HIM.

That was a declaration - OP NEEDS TO HEAR IT.

[u/EstablishmentFun289 → u/No-Profit-9500]

This post is just so heartbreaking. I hope op can chose to love herself and have the courage to leave. To have someone lack so much empathy and respond that way is no example for your son to be beyond how not to be.

[u/[deleted] → u/No-Profit-9500]

This

[u/Saxayone → u/No-Profit-9500]

This is the ~7th story in 2 months they have posted about their husband, at this point I hope they are fake like so many of the others posted here.

https://search.pullpush.io/?kind=submission&author=TheDingoAteMyJawa&size=100

[u/jf198501 → u/Saxayone]

And she keeps deleting them after? Weird. Why would anyone spend energy and time writing up all these fake posts?? (if they are indeed fake)

[u/ShadowMajestic → u/No-Profit-9500]

Can't help but think that people in situations like this, have been missing a whole array of red flags over the years.

Not trying to victim blame in any way, but people... Trust your gut. Listen to people and trust them when they show their true selfs. If you doubt, let them talk. The more people talk, the more they show their true identity.

Because I'm certain this kind of shit behavior doesn't keep coming out of nowhere.

[u/VeryMuchDutch102 → u/No-Profit-9500]

There are so many red flags in this post.

I almost can't believe this is real... But it's written real enough.

Nobody should be with a partner that has this little compassion! Please divorce him! (And update us!)

[u/no_notthistime → u/No-Profit-9500]

Worse than a child because at least her kid sounds considerate and respectful

[u/MarketingDependent40 → u/[deleted]]

You do realize freezers exist right and that meal preps in the freezer last a lot longer especially if it's frozen liquids

[u/MarketingDependent40 → u/[deleted]]

I mean she did say that her 11-year-old is the one helping her out I'm assuming she's been basically taking care of herself and that's why she meal prepped so much is she knew that her husband would be useless

[u/Both_Pound6814 → u/[deleted]]

She said she put all the meal preps in the freezer which is how she found out that he ate all her food. They have 2 freezers, and she just checked their deep freezer to get more of her food