AITA for getting irritated that my vegetarian wife refuses to feed our toddler meat?
I (27m) and my wife (24f) have been arguing back and forth about our toddler’s diet, I work very long days (typically 10-12 hours a day, up to 6 days a week) so i don’t have as much time as id like to spend at home with our son, who turned 3 in January, while he was an infant this wasn’t as much of a pressing issue and my wife has always been fantastic with taking care of him. However recently she has become more and more keen on raising our son as a vegetarian. I disagreed with this as I believe meat is an incredibly important part of a balanced diet especially for young children as they’re growing.
My wife has been a vegetarian since she was about 11, and honestly im okay with it, shes free to do what she wants in terms of her own diet, she refuses to buy or cook meat for me, and again I really don’t mind as im capable of grocery shopping and cooking for myself, but when we were dating and getting married I didn’t think this boundary of hers would extend to our children (probably a bit of miscommunication on both our parts) and Ive really been struggling to get her to come around to the idea that its probably not the best idea to raise a child a vegetarian from birth, personally i think he should be raised on a standard diet until he’s the appropriate age to be educated on the food industry and then make his own choice, however my wife believes that he should be raised vegetarian until he’s educated, then make his own choice.
And honestly it’s been irritating me, so i just thought id come on here and ask if im being the AH and just over reacting, or if my wife should bend some of her boundaries for the sake of our child