'I didn't cook anything': Husband complains about wife's cooking smell, she maliciously complies and refuses to cook him dinner anymore

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    Food - "Want me to get rid of food odor? No problem."
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    Font - Want me to get rid of food odor? No problem. M OC This happened between my parents when they first got married. It's by far the funniest thing that has ever happened and we tell this story all the time. Some background, my parents have been married for 34 years. They met in my dad's hair salon when my uncle needed my mom to come with him to get his haircut.
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    Font - My dad saw my mom and it was like love at first sight for him. My dad asked my mom out three times before she said yes. They dated for 4 years, got married, and had 2 daughters (my older sister and I). Within these 34 years of marriage, they did face hardships that brought them closer than ever. Currently my dad is a retired pastor, retired box plant worker, and retired beautician and my mom is a homemaker.
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    Font - The way our household is traditional, and loving. My dad is the head of the household and my mom is always behind him as his everything. However, my mom makes all of the decisions for the household so that it can run smoothly. It's not too extreme of what some of you may think. Some people would disagree with this, but that's how I've been seeing it my entire life and it works. Everyone's household dynamic is different. I heard from my mom tell me that early on in their marriage that ther
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    Font - On with the story, when this happened both of my parents at the time were working. My dad worked at a box plant and my mom worked at another type of factory about 30 minutes out of state. One evening my mom was making a two headed hot plate dinner for her and my dad.
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    Font - My mom loves to cook and she is amazing cook. That woman cooks the best meals. Like a southern Sunday dinner type of meals. I'm already looking forward to her cooking for the holidays. One evening when my dad came home from work, my mom was in the kitchen cooking. My dad asks "what's that smell". My mom says "dinner". My mom thought my dad was going to say how good it smells
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    Font - and was going to be grateful. My dad ends up saying something along the lines of "ew get that food odor smell out of here." My mom was confused, but she didn't want to argue and says okay. Cue malicious compliance. She opens windows all over the house trying to get rid of the smell. The next couple of days my parents only ate leftovers from what she cooked.
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    Font - A couple of days pass, my mom gets off work and is sitting in the kitchen waiting for my dad to come home. She's not cooking because my dad didn't like the smell of the food she cooked. My dad gets home and asks "what's for dinner" and "why I don't smell anything". My mom says "you wanted that food odor in here so I didn't cook anything." My dad was shocked. My mom did exactly what he said. She pulled a petty level 1000 on him. He knew he screwed up. He apologized and ever since then, he
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    Font - Now my dad doesn't even think about trying to test my mom or anything anymore. He knows he's going to lose. He's lucky he has 2 adult daughters that will help him on what he can say and not say to mom. We tell this story a lot and people love it because of how funny it is.
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    Font - Live-Tomorrow-4865. 20 hr. ago Their sense of humor has helped keep them loving & strong during rough patches, I can see that from this example. Glad you had such a loving & wonderful upbringing.
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    Font - ThriceFive 19 hr. ago One of my prenuptial conditions was that Cabbage was never going to be cooked in a kitchen where I lived with her. I'll take you out for German food whenever you want - but don't boil cabbage in my house.
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    Font - Forteanforever 17 hr. ago I hope you tell them a shorter version. You've included life and employment history and even brought religion into the story, all of which are irrelevant. With a story that length, you need a better pay-off than she stopped cooking for a few days.
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    Font - grannygritz. 6 hr. ago My dad was like this. One time he got because he could smell the bacon I was frying. Bacon! Of all things! I mean, I could understand not wanting to smell collards, but bacon?
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    Font - Sharp Coat3797 · 8 hr. ago I wonder if she cooked cabbage? It tends to have that delightful odour and I see other comments mentioned that particular veggie.
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    Font - RustySax 8 hr. ago Sounds to me like your Dad is the head of the house, but your Mom is definitely the neck!!
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    Font - AR Jstolemygirl 17 hr. ago What's the age gap? Vote Reply Share Individual-Mark2839 OP. 2 hr. ago It's about a 20 year age gap between my parents. They met when my mom was well beyond the age of 21.

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