Re: Room issue.
first of all…you’re not asking ‘randomly’…you’re asking with a specific purpose…to arrive at a conclusion that you have already formulated in your mind. please learn to communicate properly and don’t take the readers/members here to be fools who can’t see where you are leading. it’s insulting.
to answer your question, no, I would never force guests to eat/drink anything that they politely decline. (fyi: I would force my daughter to at least take a sip)
but I’m not your FIL. He has a different personality. I have been a guest in homes where my plate was forcefully taken from my hands and filled up with food that I really did/could not eat. This was the host’s way of showing their hospitality. I was not offended and I did leave some in my plate with a genuine apology because I couldn’t finish it.
so just like you have eaten “little birds” and prawns at his request, you could have taken a sip of the smoothie…it wouldn’t have killed you.
as for his tone…if you already know a person is like that then why be surprised or offended by it?
and of course your parents do not treat your husband like this…they are different people with different personalities and standards. why do you have the same expectations from other people?
you seem to have a problem comparing…your parents do this, his parents do that…you are treated this way, the jethani is treated that way…you were told to drink, the SIL got away with not drinking…sheesh.
you still haven’t answered my question: why could you not just take the smoothie and have a tiny sip to please an old man?