Woman with dairy intolerance constantly orders food with dairy and cancels trips because of it, roommate calls her out for inconveniencing her

Sometimes you have to help someone who can't help themselves.

Part of friendship is stepping in when your friends are doing something wrong. Friends let stuff go. Best friends tell you when something is up. It's why we have each other. If you can't call out your bestie when they're doing something self-sabotaging, then you're not really their bestie. But that doesn't mean they're always ready to hear it. It's a fine line to walk between calling someone out in a way that leaves them feeling wounded and calling them in in a way that makes them feel supported. It's not an easy thing to delineate between, and you might end up caught in the crossfire. That's what happened in this roommate relationship, where everyone's feelings ended up hurt.

When someone has a dietary restriction, it's up to them to enforce it. Food is an incredibly personal thing, and we all don't have the same relationship to it. Nobody should tell anyone else what to eat, unless you're someone's parent or someone's doctor. Food is more than what sustains us. It's also a huge source of pleasure in the course of a day. It's how we can connect with our cultures, and it's a constant bridge we have to cross. There's no avoiding it. Unfortunately, there is no pill that sustains us and gives us perfect nutrition. So we have to contend with food every day. And we have to be the arbiters of what we eat and what we don't eat.

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Am I in the wrong for correcting my roomie about her meals when eating out?

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Sometimes, though, what we eat does affect others. Like in this story, where one woman's intolerance wreaked havoc on her friend group. On more than one occasion, it ruined a camping trip with her roommate. So her roommate was understandably a little fed up and wanted to take the proper steps to avoid a meltdown. The problem was, she wasn't ready to hear it. So they were stuck in a difficult place that neither of them was comfortable being in, and that was that. Keep reading to see what commenters had to say about this tough roommate situation.
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