Hey people! Well, I just had to get online and share this with someone. 3 weeks ago, my wife wanted to try cutting out meat from her diet.... Yesterday she finally announced to the rest of the family that she is staying veg... Yes, that was met with some pretty hard critisizm, and almost outright rude comments... but she handled it like a pro - Her mom was quite livid... so all I did was point to her and say "your next" . I'm so proud and happy for her... Anyhow, had to share this... Peace all Soc
Sweet, congrats! Im pleased for her and you both I was so proud the day my fiancé went vegan...wed only been together a few months...but hed listened to my point of view and agreed...he went from junk food and meat eater to health-conscious vegan overnight and had absolutely no trouble and has never looked back! Itll be his 1 year anniversary in a few weeks
Hey Compassion, For me it was ethical reasons (not at first, but it grew to that fast). My wife was always an omni, but supported my choice... I'm not sure why, and I don't know if she does... but I know when she was an omni, she also agreed with my opinion on being veg, just never thought she could do it. Anyhow, one night, she told me she was going to try it just to see how she feels. Needless to say, a few weeks later, she had so much energy, felt great, and found it easy to leave meat off her plate. Anyhow, we were up yapping one night about this, we talked about animals, the way the faming industry works,,,, and she just said she is done, and will not go back. One thing I can say must have helped a lot, during the last few years when she was a meat eater... She supported me, but I also did the same for her... I cooked meat dishes for her (not easy to do), but at this time I think if I didn't... she would have probably resented me for not being equally supportive.. and this would probably not have happened.
Thanks Firelady (and everyone), you guys are awesome! Yea, and when I say our family gets angry, I mean VERY angry. our family is quite weird.. Over the years, they took it almost as a personal attack that I was veg. My mother in law made it a point to always tell me what she is feeding our kids, and that she made viel or whatever for everyone (Joanne included).... As soon as she heard her daugher say she is also going veg.. she looked as if she was betrayed... after a small venting session (mostly directed to me), she just kept quiet and distant for a couple days.... Its just the way it is here... I don't expect many of them to change... but seriously she has diabieties (poor woman), and yet she'll scold me for this "un-heatly " lifestyle I have chosen (and now got her daugher into). We are both fit, healthy and active... but she just does not understand.... and probably never will. peace Soc
I use to make meat dishes for my fiance, bacon being the worst. I was supportive of him for eating land animals, and he was supportive of me for not. It was just one of those things. We never pushed our opinions on the other. But if I found out a new fact or statistic about vegetarianism I would share it with him and he would listen, no big deal. That may of lay the way for him to see my point of view without having to defend his. Now he has given up his favorite food, steak, to be a pescaterian with me. Now if I was anal and always preaching to him it might of turned him off, from me as well But since I showed compassion for his choices, even if they were not the most compassionate choices, he was able to take my lifestyle into account, in a way that allowed him to see without the contamination of persecution, or making him wrong somehow. Does that make sense? Thats why I get annoyed at the holier than thou vegetarians. If you live and let live with respect to others opinions and choices, people are more likely to follow your example.
Yay! My own husband, who's been lacto-ovo for a long time, just decided last week to cross into veganism, so I totally understand how great it feels to be able to share your diet/lifestyle when you haven't been able to for so long. Since I became vegan, we have only been eating the same meals maybe 1/2 to 2/3 of the time, and he's fallen back more and more on the easy and quick options of veg. burgers (w/cheese), morningstar corndogs, french fries, mac & cheese, etc. I would have, and occasionally did, make him better food... but most of the time those were just the foods he asked for. Since he quit he's struggled a little bit... I guess it just seems strange to him, having sandwiches w/o cheese, stuff like that. For years he's also always fallen back on grocery store bakery stuff (cookies, cake slices, etc.) for munchies so it's strange o him for it to be so much more "work". To make things easier I've been making all the tastiest and most nutritious vegan dishes I could think of, and making sure we usually have home-made oatmeal cookies or stuff along those lines for him to munch on. Although he has been really enjoying his fruit lately too! Tomorrow, for a treat, I got some stuff to make a vegan version of biscuits and gravy - a breakfast he has always particularly loved on his mornings off work! In the few days since he switched, though, he's noticed how much better he feels already. Just this morning he told me that for the first time in years, he didn't start his day feeling all gross and phlegmmy.
