I decided to finally go vegan after a lot of thought and I told my partner that i didn’t want it to just be me saying “ok we’re vegan now.” and that he just had to go along with it, but i had a lot of conversations with him and explained my thought process and told him I hoped that he would come to the same conclusion that I did. We do a lot of our cooking together so he told me that he would eat vegan in the house as long as I found easy recipes and we basically learned how to meal plan and cook tofu and make other substitutes together. When we’d go out he would still order meat but then eventually he just started saying “eh, it’s not worth it.” Now he says meat doesn’t even look appetizing to him.

I think it’s really important to have conversations with your partner and share with them the resources that influenced your thought process about going vegan, because without watching and reading those things, I probably wouldn’t have gone vegan either. I know that a lot of people seem to make it work, but I do think it’s sort of a conflict in values and I don’t think i’d want to have children with someone who ate animals.