We have had a bit of a battle of wills going on lately. Jeff has developed a great aversion to “green things” or anything that even smacks of being healthy. As you can imagine this causes me a bit of distress because I know very well that getting the proper nutrition in him is absolutely paramount if we are going to strengthen his immune system so that he can fight this disease.
It seems that often when we sit down to a meal he reverts to being about 7 years old. There is definitely no arguing with this 7 year old. Last night I gave Jeff choices about what he would like for dinner. He chose salmon. So I fixed what before was a meal he liked very much and added asparagus and mashed potatoes. Oh my, I was not prepared for the battle that ensued. He pretty much refused to eat the asparagus telling us how yucky it is and offering what was on his plate to his children.
Sometimes it is rather comical because in his determination not to eat his vegetables, he tries all sorts of very childish manipulations. But since I am the one feeding him at this point, I try my own sneaky little ways of getting good stuff down him. Last night he took the asparagus back out of his mouth, handed it to me and matter of factly announced that I was trying his patience.
This is a perplexing problem to me because I am just not accustomed to arguing with Jeff about food. For the last several years he has been very pro-active in trying to eat extremely healthy and has very much appreciated my efforts in preparing nutritious whole food meals.
I am not sure whether or not it is his inner brat coming out and taking a stand, or if perhaps his taste buds really have changed. He has talked about having a strange taste in his mouth. He also really does not have much of an appetite, although he usually eats everything I fix for him….until now. At this point, it does absolutely no good to try and reason with him.
Last night when we went to bed, he was still angry at me for trying to push asparagus on him. I promised I would not do that again. He is not refusing water any more, which is a good thing. But man does not live on water alone. For now I guess I will just not take offense if he thinks I am trying his patience.
To be honest, my patience has been a bit tried lately too.
Oh well, such is our life. It’s a hoot sometimes.
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