Please be honest. Am I being overly sensitive over my food, or are they pushing boundaries? I feel like if this doesn't change, I may have to end the relationship.

I have always had a quirk where I don't like people touching my food. Food service/chefs are ok, but if I'm at someone's house, I don't like people handing me garlic bread or a slice of pizza. I think it comes from the fact that so many people have such poor hand hygiene anyway that all I can think about is the germs on their hands. I have a hard time eating at people's houses for this reason so I avoid it as much as I can.

My boyfriend and I have been together now for three months and I told him and his family about my quirk almost two months ago. His parents will purposely go out of their way to touch my food in some way. They think it's hilarious that I won't eat food that they touch.

It's not just handing me bread or something, it will be like "Oh let me check the soup is warm enough" and they'll stick a finger right in the centre of my bowl. Or they'll purposely hand me drinks but they'll pinch the rim of the glass so that their fingers go into my drink. It's not necessary to do what they do.

The other day I went to brunch with them at Cora's and his dad reached across the table and fished the strawberries out of my fruit salad with his fingers. I told him "That's yours now," and he sort of laughed and said his hands were clean. I said "I don't like people touching my food. We've been over this many times." He told me I was being a "sensitive little snowflake" and I said "I've asked you not to do something to me and you refuse. I'm not the problem, you are." He laughed and said something about how my generation can't take a joke. I told my boyfriend I was finished my brunch, and I left money on the table. I told him I was going to go to the car. He said I was making a scene. I said no, I'm setting a boundary. Enough is enough. His dad then called me a "sensitive wimp".

I don't think I'm being unreasonable when I'm asking that they please not touch my food. I've explained myself multiple times and they brush me off. My boyfriend says to just ignore it and it will stop. I said no. I said they're being blatantly disrespectful. This is such a tiny request and there's no need for their behavior

It seems like such a dumb reason to break up over but my kids don't do this crap and they're 5 and 7. My boyfriend doesn't stick up for me when it happens either. He's very close with his family, but I feel like crap when they blatantly disrespect me because they think it's funny. He does nothing to stop it.

Sooooo.... Valid reason to break up? Or am I being an overly sensitive wimp like his dad says?