Success Happy - non veg and veg relationships?

non veg and veg relationships?

I'm interested in hearing about any successful or failed relationships between vegetarians or vegans and non-veg. Positive or negative. I'm interested in your view points either way.

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When we started out, my husband had been a veg his whole life and I was not. I ended up converting by choice, but he was never preachy about it with me.
i am veg and i live with my non veg boyfriend. its going pretty well. he usually prepares his own meat foods. on very rare occasion i will help him :) in the beginning he told me it was a stupid idea bla bla, then i showed him the health benefits etc. he doesnt realise it yet, but he is halfway veg now, because i dont cook the meat meals anymore, or buy as much meat as we did before, or go out to eat.
My SO has become much less of a meater since dating me - I think that's partly because he wasn't entirely aware of where his food came from, and partly because eating together is so important to him. We work around our different eating habits really well - for instance, he'll make a big veggie fried rice, then throw a bit of XO Sauce (ham/scallop) into his dish. He can't eat cheese, so I actively avoid cooking with that! He eats prepped meats for breakfast and lunch - sliced deli meats, roasted duck/chicken, or meat soups from cans, since we don't eat those meals together. Dinner is usually veg, unless it's something like veggie/meat burgers. When we eat at restaurants, he gets meat, but has taken me to veg restaurants as a surprise. My sister, a very strict lacto vegetarian, has a 6 year relationship with a former fisherman. He's very respectful, and once made her veggie ground round ravioli from scratch. My parents cook meat for him, and she'll buy meat for him. My brother has been with a vegan for 19 years, now married with 2 kids. The children are lacto veg - organic, pasture-raised milk only. He eats lacto veg at home, eats meat when at restaurants but never in the house. He stays home with the babies (his wife is a heart surgeon of some skill), and has learned to cook a heck of a lot of vegetarian food. So basically, whatever works for ya. I think it's very different for each couple.
Well, I turned vegan during a longish relationship (we were going out for about 1 1/2 years when i went veg) and he was a jerk about it. He wouldn't eat my food, wouldn't hear me out (i didn't even try to be preachy) or anything. It was one of the big things that broke us up. I'm now with a vegan, and I wouldn't want it any other way!
I have been lacto-vegetarian my whole life, that's how i was raised. I met my wife when i was 19 in college. She was a meat-eater and very convinced that i should also eat meat. I have never asked her to stop eating meat. One day when she was at work, she saw a documentary on how there is "excrement" in the burgers that she eat so she voluntarily stopped eating red meat for health reasons. She then stopped eating all meat after watching the video at meat.org. She is now a pescke-tarian, which means she eats veg and seafood. She'll eventually stop the seafood when she has a reason too. We're married and living very happy. I don't think our food choices should matter. Its all upon how respectful the other is.
I'm a vegetarian who went vegan and then back to vegetarian but seriously cut down on the dairy products. My husband is a carniovre who loves his omelette's and meat! This has not hurt our relationship one bit. We respect eachother's choice. We compromise on meals. For example, I'll make meatless chili but he has individual bags of ground beef in the freezer so he (or I) will defrost and cook some and add it to his portion.
I'm glad you asked this question, it's very interesting and it's been on my mind lately. I agree with the others, it depends on respect. I try not to be preachy unless the subject is brought up, and he never disrespects my decision. It's a little frustrating when your loved ones don't agree on something you find so vital, but that's life. I think the harder you push people, the more stubborn they get. We've know each other for... a bit over two years..... been dating since this November, so a few months. He's been sweet about it. Examples: -He bought a leather couch in front of me before we dated. I told him I like the cloth better (when asked for an opinion), but didn't press it since it would have been ridiculous to nag at a man who I wasn't even dating. Later, I explained my view on it, and he understood how it's just a material to him, but means something much greater to me (in regards to future purchases should we marry or something). -Once got chicken instead of a burger (or was it the other way around?) at a restaurant when I off-handedly mentioned I was having a craving for beef. Never expected him to do that. I didn't mean anything by the comment. -Drove me back to a pizza place that accidentally put chicken on my pizza. Didn't complain, never asked me if it would be so wrong to just it eat it, just this once (I've had people do this). In fact I didn't even ask him to do it. -Has agreed to raise the hypothetical children vegetarian (once again, if things ever get to that point). -Makes sure I always have something to eat. It's so sweet. He's driven me to Wawa before a mostly-meat party and offered to take me to dinner afterwards. Everyone he knows now knows I'm vegetarian (I personally don't say anything about it until the topic comes up or someone asks me why I'm not eating a certain dish). We're going to visit his parents soon and he's made sure they know exactly what I eat and don't eat so nobody takes offense. He honestly does more to help me out than I do. I pretty much just eat sides or whatever, and not make demands, but he just goes out of his way to make sure there's at least something for me. So yeah, I think it can work out if you respect each other. He'll jokingly tell me he's going to force-feed me a burger (and I not-so-jokingly tell him I want pet chickens before children) or something, but in serious conversation I find that he actually likes that I believe in a cause this much (though I think he's confused still on why I drink milk and eat eggs.... frankly I'm in debate about that too). Well, that was a little long......... lol, sorry:)
me and my friends are fine, we dont judge each other by what we eat. its whats inside that counts. wait i didnt mean to 'pun'. i meant inside ur soul. :)
Well me and my bf have been together a year and i'm a veggie. He eats meat but he doesn't eat it around me, i've told him he can but he respects my views and despite me saying he can eat meat he wont eat it near me. He knows i wont kiss him if he eats it before coming to see me aswell so he has to brush his teeth ;) x
I turned veg after being married to my husband for 2 years. At first it was a little difficult as I was trying my hardest to continue feeding him meat so that he didn't resent my choices. After awhile we both agreed to decreasing his amount of meat intake to at most every other day to make life easier on me, the primary food preparer. Then over time it has become once or twice a week I make a meal with meat in it (more often if he specifically states he want such and such tomorrow because he's feeling deprived or whatever....but this doesn't happen that often). He still eats homemade sandwiches with deli meat in it too, whenever he chooses. The other day he came home and declared he is a "flexitarian," which made me as a vegetarian laugh since what some of the people on this board say!! He has given up more than me on a less than willing state, but I do compromise by of course making meat meals, not complaining when he eats a meat dish when eating out, not complaining or criticizing his choices, and letting large amounts of meat be in our household when we have family get togethers of the sort. Also our children don't eat meat and they very seldom get dairy or eggs (though he still does consume dairy products on a regular basis), so yes he made a huge sacrifice. But the fact that I can't stomach meat makes it hard for me to go the opposite way.
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My mother is a vegetarian but my dad isn't but what's the big deal whoever is cooking just cooks two different types of protein.
Heya This is something that really confuses me.I have been with lads that eat meat but thats because im only 16 and im not around them all the time.I dont know what i would do if i married a meat eater.I think they would atleast have to turn to a pescatarian and then eventually turn to full veggie.I couldnt cook meat and i definatly wouldnt bring my kids up as meat eaters.xxx