Monday, December 22, 2014

This is probably stupid

Lately I've had issues with my boyfriend's relationship with his parents. And when I say lately I mean our whole relationship.

They don't respect each other - his parents are awful to him and he's awful in response - but that's not even what's been bothering me in the past few months. What bothers me is that even though his parents are awful to him, he relies on them for almost everything. If my parents treated me as poorly as his treat him, I would have gotten a job that pays me really well (which he is capable of getting) and I would save money and move out. He's going to college so he's asking them to pay for it (and for everything) instead of working for a while then sending himself to school and not owing them any money. He acts like he can't stand them but then he puts up with them and lets them pay for everything/ be bitter at him for owing them money.

Another thing that really gets under my skin is that he expects his mom to cook for him and gets bothered when she doesn't. If the four of us are out to dinner, he'll tell her to try a food and say that she should make that for dinner sometime. Now, he knows I'm a great cook and I cook for him all the time (probably more than his mom does), but he still expects her to do it and still wants to eat her food. I would never want to eat the food of someone who shames me all the time and is just completely terrible to me. I would want to eat the food of my awesome girlfriend who I never fight with.

So... I'm really not sure if I'm being petty and unreasonable or if I'm actually thinking logically. Either way, I'm not really wanting to bring it up because I'm terrible with confrontation and that's not a necessary conversation to have right now. It's just increasingly bothering me and I'm afraid it'll come to a head and I'll get unreasonably angry at him over his mother's cooking.

Tangent: they do a rehearsed prayer at family meals that they required me to learn. I hardly go to their family meals anymore because I just don't feel like dealing with their power play.

But yeah. This is probably stupid.

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