Panic Button: Help! My Boyfriend Eats Like A Child
Is This A Red Flag?
Whereas most relationships bloom on shared interests and compatibility, often it is the smallest things that cause a wedge between two people. For Megan, finding something as inconsequential as a stash of children’s snacks in her boyfriend’s pantry was enough to raise questions regarding their compatibility. This was the catalyst for Jonathan and Ayla‘s Panic Button segment with guest co-host Danielle Murr proving that dietary choices can make a surprising impact on adult relationships.
Here Is Her Call
Jonathan: Country 102.5 with Jonathan and Ayla doing Panic Button. Today for the Panic Button, Danielle, we have Megan. Hey, Megan.
Megan: Hi, guys. How are you all?
Jonathan: Good. We’re all doing good. So, Megan, you have a little bit of a problem. You slept over at a guy’s house and found something disturbing in his cabinet and pantry. What happened?
Megan: Yeah, absolutely. So this is my first time spending the night at this guy’s place. In the morning, I went to look inside his pantry and saw all this kid’s food. You know, like Pop-Tarts, dinosaur-shaped waffles, Super Mario Brothers mac and cheese, Fruity Pebbles…
Jonathan: Dino bites?
Danielle: Were there any Gushers?
Megan: Yeah, like Fruit Roll-Ups and Gushers.
Jonathan: So he has a kid?
Megan: Well, that’s what I was thinking. I asked him if he had a small child he hadn’t told me about. He said no, this is the food he likes. It really bothers me.
Danielle: It’s too juvenile for you?
Jonathan: That he likes kid’s food?
Megan: Yes, I mean, he’s a grown man in every other way.
Jonathan: You really emphasize the word “grown” there. So what? This is what he eats.
Megan: I don’t know, it just weirds me out. Is that what our relationship is going to look like? He’s going to have all this kid’s stuff, and I’m going to have normal adult food.
Jonathan: Did you worry you were dating Tom Hanks from “Big”? Like a child in a man’s body?
Megan: I love that movie, but in real life, that wouldn’t work for me.
Jonathan: OK. Well, I’ll throw this out to the text line: 888-819-1025. That’s Megan’s problem. She’s dating a guy, spent the night, went to get something to eat in the morning, and found out he had nothing but kid’s food: Mario mac and cheese, Dino bites. Did he have Go-Gurt?
Megan: Yes, something like that, yeah.
Jonathan: OK. So he eats like a child. And it’s weirding her out. She doesn’t know why. Why do you think it’d be weird? Call or text at 888-819-1025. I don’t know why this would be so weird. I think it would weird me out more as a man. Like if I saw a woman had all this stuff, I’d be like, something’s wrong with her.
Although everybody has their own brand of quirkiness and comfort foods, Megan’s story was a lesson in aligning lifestyle choices and expectations. What may seem a very small quirk to one person could be a huge red flag to another. After all, it is all about understanding and communication. It’s within these moments, while Megan grapples with her feelings regarding her boyfriend’s unconventional eating habits, that we are reminded sometimes it is in the little things that we realize more about our compatibility with other people.
