Hi, I am feeling so terribly desperate. I cook everything from scratch. He doesn't like vegetables anything other than just nearly raw - but will keep me waiting to plate up minutes after I've said dinner is ready. He doesn't like meat in casseroles too chewy - well it never is but however it's done it's not right. Lambs heart casserole tonight in the slow cooker so the timing could be flexible because of something he was doing. So cooked 7 hours on low - the heart was [if I my say so] beautifully tender and tasty. But the root vegetables and the soaked then cooked pulses were not squodgy - didn't soak up the gravy well enough he said. But they were how he normally likes the vegetables done. Huge huge argument - really totally uneccessary. But after nearly 2 years I just flipped - I seem to never do anything right and I'm feeling so upset and criticised. It hurts. But now - I feel so damned guilty - he doesn't actually play the 'I've got cancer' card but it's there all the time. I just needed to explode to people who probably understand what I'm going through. Sorry to be a wimp.
Oh yes I get it! I could’ve written your post myself. And it’s every single day, and every single thing I do, think or say is criticized and corrected. It is so hard not to reply with words or comments that can’t be unsaid (and I’m not a saint!) My husband on the other hand says that he can say and do exactly as he pleases to me and anyone as he is dying and so there are no consequences that he cares about. His illness is a kind of ‘get out of jail free’ card.
So I don’t have any real advice, but you are definitely not alone with what you’re going through. Best wishes to you.
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