How do I get my boyfriend to be supportive of me becoming a vegetarian?

Question

Well I think I've decided on becoming a vegetarian. [sort of]
I don't like how animals are being ruthlessly killed. For the
purpose of convenience, I want to still have a little meat in
my life. Just very sparingly. Sorry if that offends anyone. Anyways, I told my boyfriend of this decision and he doesn't
understand it. He said he doesn't understand the point of it
and that it's "stupid" if you will. I've also told him another
reason I want to do this is because of the whole being
more healthy cause I've heard meat can lead to heart disease
and all that jazz due to cholesterol and such. He still doesn't get it! How can I get him to be supportive?

I'm not leaving him. And he just doesn't get why I'm doing it. So how do i get him to understand.

Answer 1

If he wakes up one morning and you've got his willy topped with hollandaise sauce and diced parsley with you holding a fork and knife and licking your chops hungrily. He will have no qualms about you going vegetarian.

Answer 2

Get a new boyfriend! He sounds very closed minded and rather verbally abusive as well. If someone calls you stupid because you are a thinking and caring person, I think it's pretty safe to say he's not. My daughter decided not to eat meat at age four, I respected her feelings and made sure she had a well balanced diet. She's beautiful, intelligent and kind. Didn't hurt her a bit! You deserve better! I don't eat much meat myself, fish or some times poultry. I really like the taste of sausage and sometimes ground beef so I have gone to ground soy for those choices.

Answer 3

I know a wonderful family. The mother and children are vegans and the dad eats meat. These are their rules.

No meat in the house.
Children are not to eat meat.
He can do as he pleases outside the house but is expected to have brushed his teeth before kisses.
She makes fun of his bathroom smells.

They have 2 beautiful kids, and have a very happy marrige. They both love each other, and respect the way they are. He did try to be vegetarian for a year but it didn't work out with him. They have milk and cheese in the house for the husband, but no eggs.

:D When you marry someone to have to meet in the middle. Same applies for dating.

Answer 4

You're not a vegetarian if you're still going to be eating meat, even sparingly. Either way, you shouldn't have to GET your boyfriend to be supportive, he should just BE supportive. Some people are too stuck in their own ways to even just try and see things from someone else's point of view.

Answer 5

He will probably never understand. Just poke the pig with a cattle prod and tell him to move on you will have no more of his nonsense. If that doesn't work then club him on the forehead with a baseball bat. While he is unconscious you can dehorn him completely. These techniques will make him far more compliant with your requests. Just kidding! You can probably stop cooking meat and look at him like you don't know what he's talking about when he asks where his steak is. If he doesn't like that maybe he will have to cook for himself until he gets use to it. So much for TLC

Answer 6

Well, this boyfriend doesn't sound so great. I mean, you've explained everything to him, and he doesnt even seem to be trying to understand.
But really, who cares if boyfriend is supportive? It sounds like you've presented all the information, and he still doesnt get it. Just eat what you want, no boyfriend should be controlling that.

Answer 7

He may never understand it or support it, but he can be polite and not call it stupid, and respect your right to eat the way you want to and he can do the same. If he still wants to eat meat, you too have to respect that.

Answer 8

Just talk to him. If he really cares about you, he'll stop criticizing your lifestyle. There's absolutely nothing wrong with what you want to do, and it's your decision. Get him some reading material (it's available online) on the subject; it may help.

Answer 9

you cant make him be supportive of you, and you shouldnt let him stop you. if he isnt supportive he isnt worth keeping. you should be with a guy who loves you for who you are and what you eat. if you arent forcing him to become one two i see no reason why he has any reason in calling it stupid. drop the guy and go veggie (congrats! and eating veggie isnt stupid. ive been a veggie for a couple months and i feel more energetic and healthy. good luck to you)

Answer 10

you really have no business demanding that another person be what he isn't. If you are not satisfied with your boyfriend being honest with himself, and with you, then the two of you are not suited and you need to find somebody who is more sympathetic to your personal beliefs.

I've done a ton of "homework" on the subject of how livestock has come to be bred, raised and slaughtered to satisfy our human need for meat, and, believe me, I am sickened by what I have learned. I wish everybody would make a point of learning more, including the fact that they fill these animals with hormones and antibiotics to keep infection down because they are raised unnaturally, and force them to bulk up and make more flesh, or produce more milk. It's a horror story.

Sadly, though, for all of this, the reality is that our human digestive system has been conditioned over thousands of years to consume flesh. It's true that many people these days, for moral reasons, or other strong motivations, have decided that they will not eat meat. I myself, driven by what I have learned, try to eat as little as possible. But my digestive system, and my mind, can't reject it entirely. I'm not just a victim of a lifetime of eating meat, but of centuries of human evolution, and not all of us are cut out to make that total commitment. It's simply not fair of you to try to impose this kind of major personal lifechange on another person who obviously isn't ready to do that.

You ask how you can get him to be more supportive (of you). But it is your obligation to be supportive of his right to NOT make that decision and that personal commitment himself, just to gratify you. If you think you might some day want to marry this guy, then you have to be prepared to understand that you are marrying the whole package... the way he is, warts and all. If you think you might not be able to deal with living with a meat eater - and actually having to cook it for him, trust me, you don't want to continue this relationship. You won't last the proverbial five minutes, and you would be doing yourself, and him, a favor, by calling it a day, leaving you both free to find somebody who can agree with each of your separate ways of thinking on this issue.