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Would You Date a Vegan?
Let me start by apologizing to vegans out there. I don’t mean to disparage your eating habits (even though, honestly, I don’t get it). I could’ve as easily titled this, Would you Date a Sausage Eater? but then you might think I was talking about sex. My real question here, and I ask this in earnest –
Is it important that our romantic partners like to chow down on the same things we do? Earlier this week, a man emailed from Match.com, and after chatting for a few minutes on the phone, I learned that he doesn’t drink alcohol (sticking mostly to herbal teas) and refrains from sugar and white flour, among other things. “My body is a temple,” he said. When I heard this, my heart sank, and I pictured a life drinking alone, sneaking off to munch on my home-baked brownies. How much do our food choices define us? Are we what we eat?
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Okay, you just hit on some of my “deal breakers.” I drink for a living, so non-drinkers are pretty much non-starters with me. Along with the wine comes an amazing array of food – mostly non-vegan. For many of us, food is love and comfort. If you take it out of the relationship equation, we are at a loss. I realize the rest of the world does not necessarily live this way, but I do. And, I like it. Therefore, the man in my life needs to fit in my world of eclectic, pork laden, non-vegan, wine accompanied food.
Oh, and the answer to your question is “No.”
Cheers!
Their values matter, of course, as much as anything else if not more. But I’m capricious, inconsistent–no SUV drivers allowed, other less-than-ideal choices are generally OK.
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