AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Couples ditch shared meals in growing 'food divorce' trend — but therapists warn it may cost them more than dinner
A rising number of American couples are splitting their kitchens instead of their households, adopting what relationship therapists now call a "food divorce", and the trend reveals as much about modern isolation as it does about what's for dinner. The arrangement works exactly the way it sounds. Two people share a home but stop planning, […] The post Couples ditch shared meals in growing 'food divorce' trend — but therapists warn it may cost them more than dinner appeared first on American Almanac .
A rising number of American couples are splitting their kitchens instead of their households, adopting what relationship therapists now call a "food divorce", and the trend reveals as much about modern isolation as it does about what's for dinner. The arrangement works exactly the way it sounds. Two people share a home but stop planning, cooking, and eating meals together. Each partner handles food on their own schedule, with their own preferences, no negotiation required. Relationship therapist Erin Pash, founder and CEO of the counseling platform Caveman to Casanova, told the New York Post that the practice boils down to one thing: removing food from the daily list of things a couple has to fight about. The numbers behind the shift are…Open