So my girlfriend and I were big soda drinkers. Yeah, it’s hella bad for you, but it’s delicious so whatever. My girlfriend was way better than I was in moderating her soda consumption, but in the end she’s the one who developed kidney problems and was told by her doctor she had to cut soda out of her diet completely.  It wasn’t even hard for her to quit cold turkey. She just stopped buying it and was fine. 

But I still really like soda, so I’ll buy myself some from the store. At first, she wasn’t upset and just joked about “bringing crack into a halfway house”. But then as the weeks went on she’d start going on tirades about how bad soda is for me and that I should try not drinking it because it made her feel so much healthier and happier to not have it anymore. I told her I appreciated her trying to look out for me, but I love soda. It’s basically my coffee. 

But she keeps boasting about how her skin and her hair and her sleep has been so much better after cutting soda out of her diet, and how she’s losing weight with no effort. Every time she catches me drinking soda she just preaches to me about how bad it is and that we can be off soda together. I know deep down she’s probably just upset that I can drink it and she can’t, but it’s not fair that I have to change my lifestyle just because she had to. 

Today she told me I can’t bring soda into the house and that if I really want it, I should drink it at work or in my car. I’m an adult and I should be able to drink soda wherever I want if I really want to. How do I explain this to my girlfriend without upsetting her?
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– My girlfriend had to stop drinking soda because of medical problems. And now she expects me to stop drinking it, too. But I don’t want to cut soda out of my diet because she had to, and
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So my girlfriend and I were big soda drinkers. Yeah, it’s hella bad for you, but it’s delicious so whatever. My girlfriend was way better than I was in moderating her soda consumption, but in the end she’s the one who developed kidney problems and was told by her doctor she had to cut soda out of her diet completely.  It wasn’t even hard for her to quit cold turkey. She just stopped buying it and was fine. 

But I still really like soda, so I’ll buy myself some from the store. At first, she wasn’t upset and just joked about “bringing crack into a halfway house”. But then as the weeks went on she’d start going on tirades about how bad soda is for me and that I should try not drinking it because it made her feel so much healthier and happier to not have it anymore. I told her I appreciated her trying to look out for me, but I love soda. It’s basically my coffee. 

But she keeps boasting about how her skin and her hair and her sleep has been so much better after cutting soda out of her diet, and how she’s losing weight with no effort. Every time she catches me drinking soda she just preaches to me about how bad it is and that we can be off soda together. I know deep down she’s probably just upset that I can drink it and she can’t, but it’s not fair that I have to change my lifestyle just because she had to. 

Today she told me I can’t bring soda into the house and that if I really want it, I should drink it at work or in my car. I’m an adult and I should be able to drink soda wherever I want if I really want to. How do I explain this to my girlfriend without upsetting her?
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My girlfriend is upset that I can drink soda and I can't anymore. How do I explain this to her without upsetting her?
assistant