I'm hungry.

[icarus]

I'm hungry, but my aunt is upstairs and I don't feel like cooking in public.

This is weird of me, isn't it? That when sharing a house, sometimes I go into hiding mode? And if the kitchen is occupied, I don't eat?

Comments

[telesilla]

I don't think it's weird. When I was living with my former housemates I'd deliberately eat at weird hours to avoid sharing the kitchen. And I always ate in my room unless no one was home.

[icarus]

I feel better (norrrrmal) now.

My aunt's main TV space (her space) is next to the kitchen.

[jamie]

I always felt like 1) was getting judged on what I was cooking 'Not healthy enough! or 'What? are you on a diet' Yeah. No way to win that one.

and 2) Most people just don't know how to be around someone working in the kitchen and doing the stay out of the way dance very well.

[dancing_moon]

I do that to. Even at home.

It just feels as if, when I'm eating alone, I'm eating food that belongs to all of us and I'm "stealing" from my family... This didn't get better when my first host family in Germany asked me to eat less because they couldn't afford that much food (that's when I got into the habit of buying little yoghurts and cans of corn for myself)