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I'm hoping someone can help me come up with a compromise to settle a dispute between myself and my husband.
First off I know this is stupid and irrational but I can't help how I feel. He wants a lobster for dinner. I won't let him bring one home and kill it in my kitchen.
My first thought was I'll buy you a frozen one. That doesn't work for him because it's just not the same once it's been frozen. My second thought was when we get our tax money I'll take you to a nice restaurant, you can pick a lobster out of their tank and boom fresh lobster dinner. He's willing to do that but says it doesn't fix the problem because it's not the same as him getting to fix it his way. Also we can't afford to go out to a fancy dinner every time he wants a lobster. So I called my aunt and she's willing to let him cook lobster at her house. That won't work because if he wants to cook it's in the comfort of his own home.
This has devolved into a huge deal to him. He thinks it's stupid I don't want a living feeling being killed in my home. His argument is "You eat meat. What do you think the cow died of old age?" I tell him "No and if in order to have meat we had to bring the cow home and slaughter it we'd be vegetarians." He also thinks it's stupid because I don't have a problem with hunting and he says it's the same thing as buying his lobster at the store and bringing it home to kill. I just don't see it that way. If I go hunting I kill it in the woods, thank it for giving it's life for my sustenance, dress it and take the meat home. I don't subdue it then kill it in my home so it's spirit can be trapped there.
Anybody else been in this argument? Any suggestions?
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