Hi Shantiram,

I read your post and felt curious about whether another option is available to you (assuming you felt drawn to make some changes). I wondered whether you considered making changes for yourself regardless of whether your partner does the same as you. If you felt inspired to explore giving up dairy for example, could this just be a choice you make for yourself? Does that exploration bring up other challenges - maybe changing who shops or cooks or navigating how you accommodate different needs? If you felt like making this change and did so, how might it impact your partner and, ultimately, you? I wonder if you can imagine taking the first step toward that for yourself and then seeing what that brings up within you - how it changes the relationship with yourself (and how that is reflected in your relating experience with your partner)? Perhaps another option exists besides maintaining the status quo in a relationship and arguing about it.

Just some things that popped in as you shared... I know it can be challenging - and I have experienced eating differently while raising children and having a partner at the time who consumed meat/dairy/eggs. It has been a learning and growth experience and ultimately it was about my relationship with myself and how that expresses or is experienced in relation to life.

Wonderful inquiry and thank you for sharing!!

Jen