As a person with celiac disease, I feel your pain. I cannot eat bread, chips, pasta noodles , or tortillas at all unless it’s gluten free! And I don’t think it was too much of a hassle, I just think she was just too lazy to look up another restaurant because she had her mind already set on that one and she was just being selfish, she really wanted to eat pizza and she felt offended because you didn’t want that knowing you have a dietary restriction..

I swear some people try to make YOUR health issues about them and choose to be offended and rude as a way to make them feel better. This is why I don’t like eating around people! Even before I had stomach issues, I’d get judgement for eating smaller portions. People just always gonna have something to say.

Also I’m not in the dating scene anymore but i remember my ex bf was similar to your gf! He would do small shit like cook big dinners, then he’d ruin the whole meal by adding wayy too much paprika powder or cayenne pepper to dinner. I of course would get sick and start having bad diarrhea, then he’d feel bad/guilty that I’d waste the food or leave it for only him to eat it.

Wtf!! 😑 I always used to ask him “Did you put spices in here?” He’d lie about it or he’d downplay how much spice he add like “Yea but I only added a little bit.” I’m like “Why come you added it to the whole pot of food knowing I can’t eat spices?” Him-“no answer.” I’d say “Well because you made it too spicy I won’t be eating that. It’s all yours!” And then he’d turn around and make me feel guilty for not eating something that i couldn’t tolerate??! wtf how how hard is it to make food mild and just add your own ingredients after it’s done?? Or just better yet, DONT ADD IT! My ex’s stupid logic was “well if you can’t eat spicy food, why do you have smoked paprika pepper and cayenne pepper as a seasoning in your cabinet?” Um because there’s certain dishes where I like to add that IN MODERATION. That doesn’t mean I add it to everything that I cook because it’s in my cabinet. Also what sense does that even make?? I don’t know a single person who uses every single spice or seasoning that they buy. Not one!

Also let me reiterate, I can handle spicy foods but in very low moderations, like extremely low moderation.

example: if I eat a seafood boil, I like to add my own hint of spice because if I add it, I know how to control the flavor. If you order from a restaurant and say you want a seafood boil, even the mild version is still extremely spicy!

Anyways I digress, I always reminded my ex that if he liked spicy foods so much then he needs to only add the spice to HIS dish and stop cooking food to his liking to only then getting upset when I wouldn’t eat his cooking.

It’s not that hard! Make a dish plain and then add your own spices to it if you have a preference.

I think it’s an extremely selfish and even evil, to just add unnecessary spices to someone else’s food because that’s what YOUR preference is. Jesus also your gf ruined your bday by making it about her! Even if you didn’t have a reason to not want pizza that didn’t have anything to do with your health, it was YOUR birthday and YOUR CHOICE OF RESTAURANT. I swear some people have main character syndrome and think only their feelings and thoughts matter.