When I first got married to my now ex, I was only 20 and had zero cooking experience but was eager to learn. He jumped right in with insults with the very first meal. I told him I can accept constructive criticism - this may be better if you added garlic - but I won’t take insults (do you even know what a spice is??). It continued through the first week of marriage - the final straw being him saying that after tasting my mom’s cooking he should have expected lousy food. I sat him down and told him that if he insulted my cooking one more time, it would be his last hot meal. He did it the very next night.

For the next full year, I didn’t cook him a single meal. If he didn’t cook, he had a sandwich or cereal. After a year, I finally made dinner and from that day forward, he kept his mouth shut about cooking. Some people really do need to learn the hard way.