Hello all,
Hope you are well.
I am currently in a difficult situation as my girlfriend of almost 6 months who I love dearly approached me recently with some difficult information.
So without going into too much detail, here are the basics of what has happened:
I've been vegan for almost exactly one year now (I'm currently 16), and I met my girlfriend 6 months ago on an online dating platform. We started meeting up very soon after and started dating and it has been amazing, until something that has happened now.
She turned vegetarian shortly after we started going out, and I knew that I must have somewhat influenced that decision, but apparently it had gotten really bad for her because she felt pressured into it and on a survival school trip, she ran out of vegetarian food to eat and ate meat, and was petrified to tell me. I am very glad she did though, and I told her that her well being and health is important to me and it would be better than letting it go to waste, and apparently I reacted in a very 'chill' way, which surprised her as she thought I was going to end the relationship, which I did not want to.
Now she told me how pressured she felt and I immediately apologised as this was never my intention, I don't believe in spreading the vegan message by forcing people etc so it was a shock but we worked it out.
Anyway, now her conclusion is that she wants to start eating meat every now and again, but as a vegan this upsets me a lot... and I just don't know what to do! She knows all about how animals are kept etc, I have shown her documentaries but she seems pretty firm with her decision.
Shall I give it time? What should I do?
Many thanks in advance.
Hope you are well.
I am currently in a difficult situation as my girlfriend of almost 6 months who I love dearly approached me recently with some difficult information.
So without going into too much detail, here are the basics of what has happened:
I've been vegan for almost exactly one year now (I'm currently 16), and I met my girlfriend 6 months ago on an online dating platform. We started meeting up very soon after and started dating and it has been amazing, until something that has happened now.
She turned vegetarian shortly after we started going out, and I knew that I must have somewhat influenced that decision, but apparently it had gotten really bad for her because she felt pressured into it and on a survival school trip, she ran out of vegetarian food to eat and ate meat, and was petrified to tell me. I am very glad she did though, and I told her that her well being and health is important to me and it would be better than letting it go to waste, and apparently I reacted in a very 'chill' way, which surprised her as she thought I was going to end the relationship, which I did not want to.
Now she told me how pressured she felt and I immediately apologised as this was never my intention, I don't believe in spreading the vegan message by forcing people etc so it was a shock but we worked it out.
Anyway, now her conclusion is that she wants to start eating meat every now and again, but as a vegan this upsets me a lot... and I just don't know what to do! She knows all about how animals are kept etc, I have shown her documentaries but she seems pretty firm with her decision.
Shall I give it time? What should I do?
Many thanks in advance.