It can be used to say that one cannot have two incompatible things, or that one should not try to have more than is reasonable. The proverb literally means "you cannot simultaneously retain possession of a cake and eat it, too". However, many on Reddit deduced that there was more to her request than her partner had initially thought.You can't have your cake and eat it (too) is a popular English idiomatic proverb or figure of speech. Last year, a man earned praise for leaving his fiance at home over Thanksgiving after she tried to bring her own food to his mom's meal. It's not the first time a viral story has highlighted a possible eating disorder. The woman's behavior certainly appears to chime with the guidance offered by the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA).Īccording to NEDA "control over food" whereby and individual "becomes inordinately upset when unable to control a situation related to food" could be an indicator of an underlying eating disorder. "Her controlling and humiliating behavior towards you is way more than just 'the cake not being as fresh. "It seems like your wife has an eating disorder and is taking it out on you," they said. Appropriate-Dig771 suspected there was more to it that meets the eye. "You must eat it in one day.then she gaslights you by insisting you do it, then slams you for being greedy," he surmised.ĭespite many appearing eager to criticize the wife's actions though, there were some who appeared more sensitive to the situation. PilotEnvironmental46 felt the wife sounded "incredibly controlling" in her demands. "Also who refuses to make a cake for their spouse? It's literally the least that you can do." "Tell your wife you'd rather be a pig than an a**hole for yelling at someone for doing exactly what you were told to do," they wrote. "Your dietary management is your own to deal with."Īdviceisonthehouse went a little closer to the knuckles with their response to her actions. "Just because you want to eat a certain diet doesn't mean the household also needs to eat that way," they said. However, many users, such as Alienwafflelover, were not buying that as a reasonable excuse for her behavior. "She wants you to eat the whole thing, so that she won't be tempted to eat more, but at the same time she perhaps feels jealous that you can eat the whole thing," they explained. ![]() "Your wife clearly wanted to prove you were a glutton for wanting a whole cake and 'not being able to finish it, therefore wasting food.'" they wrote.Įnlightened_Gardener, meanwhile, theorized that it could simply be the case that the man's wife is on a diet "and doesn't trust herself around it." VividEfficiency7347 was among those to claim the man's wife was just annoyed that he had "proved her wrong" by eating it all. "She said she didn't think I'd be such a glutton and finish the entire cake all by myself." To make matters worse, she has now vowed to "never" make him cake again.īut while the man may be facing a cakeless future with his wife, he's garnered plenty of support on Reddit, where his tale of sweet treat woe amassed more than 11,000 upvotes. "She started scolding me, calling me greedy and a pig," he said. Read more 'Get Out'-Man's 'Creepy' Discovery in Girlfriend's Attic Goes Viral The problems only arose when his wife came home to discover he had eaten it all. Not that the birthday boy had any issues in that respect, writing that he managed to consume the remainder of the cake "pretty easily" throughout the rest of the day. ![]() ![]() The man said he "happily agreed to her condition" and she set to baking his birthday cake.Ĭut to the morning of his birthday and after he and his wife enjoyed a single slice for breakfast she reminded him he would "have to finish the cake by the end of the day because she didn't want any cake leftovers." "She agreed on the condition that I'd have to finish the entire cake and not waste any of it because she'd only be able to eat one slice of it," he wrote. "So she would just buy two slices of cake, one for her and one for me."ĭetermined to do things differently this year, he asked his wife to bake "one of her famous plum cakes." As it was his birthday, she agreed to bake for him-but there was a catch. "I haven't had a birthday cake for many years because my wife felt that it would go to waste considering it's just the two of us at home," he explained. Internet Backs Mom Refusing To Buy Lunch for Daughter's Boyfriend.'Straight Out of a Horror Movie'-Nightmarish Marriage Proposal Goes Viral.Internet Backs Woman Forwarding 'Lewd' Messages to the Texter's Fiancée.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |