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When your partner's family food traditions make you ill

My wife expects me to eat her mother's cooking every Sunday but it makes me physically sick and I cannot tell her this without destroying our marriage.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision between bodily autonomy and relational loyalty creates an impossible choice between physical wellbeing and cultural belonging.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Dietary traditions across cultures?”

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