Her Boyfriend Got Mad At Her For Not Wanting To Meal Prep For Him After She Got Home From Chemo
Going through chemotherapy is an extremely physically and mentally draining process. Therefore, one would like to think that those who have to experience chemotherapy get as much support from their loved ones as possible.
That’s not the case for one woman whose boyfriend got angry with her for not meal-prepping his weekly means as soon as she finished a chemotherapy session.
She’s 31-years-old and was diagnosed with a rare cancer called Synovial sarcoma. Since January, she’s been undergoing chemotherapy to treat her cancer.
She goes to her local cancer center every three weeks and has eight-hour sessions five days a week.
She describes the chemotherapy experience as very “taxing” on her body, and she experiences multiple nasty side effects like nausea and extreme fatigue.
Unfortunately, her 24-year-old boyfriend doesn’t seem to be doing too much to support her.
Recently, the night before her upcoming chemo cycle, he asked her if she would meal prep a week’s worth of meals for him.
She tried explaining to him that she could try, but she’d be exhausted and feeling terrible after her chemo, so she’d rather do it the following week when she felt better.
“He was insistent and kept asking if I could ‘just try’ and wasn’t taking no for an answer,” she recalled.
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“I started to become agitated because, if I’m being honest, I want to feel coddled and taken care of during this time in my life, not pushed to do chores.”
Plus, her boyfriend wasn’t asking for one meal but a week’s worth of food right after her long chemo session. He is also more than capable of making food for himself. Although he works early mornings, his schedule typically allows him to get out in the earlier hours of the afternoon.
Additionally, she’s felt she’s been a supportive girlfriend to him thus far. She offers him whatever food he has whenever he’s at her place. She doesn’t want to center all of their conversations around her illness, so when he visits, she’ll give him a back rub and ask how things are going.
He got very upset when she told him she wouldn’t be able to make his meals as soon as she got home from chemo. He told her his love language was “acts of service,” although that typically only involves him taking the trash out and helping her with little tasks here and there.
He called their relationship “one-sided” and sent her a bunch of angry text messages.
“I didn’t argue back too much because I’m not much for arguing,” she said. “He doesn’t even do that much for me.”
What should she do about her boyfriend?
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