Nate Pann Gist and Free Korean Vocabulary List : A Knetizen complains about her husband's sensitivity to smell

My husband’s hypersensitivity to smell is annoying me

Yesterday I and my husband have been wanting to eat some curry and since we both are coincidentally on holiday, we opted to eat curry for brunch. So I am preparing the ingredients.

However, my husband told me to take the gas burner, go to the laundry room and cook the curry there, because he believes that the smell of curry doesn’t leave easily.

I was so dumbfounded because we can’t always live on takeaways and it is given that a house, where people live and cook, will definitely smell. After I asked him whether we do not ventilate the room every time, he offered to fry the ingredients in the laundry room, while I do the rest in the kitchen.

What kind of nutcase is this ?

I got so angry that I just gave up on eating curry all together. He still insists that curry’s smell is so strong and that he will not change his mind.

He said to me “You know how sensitive I am to smell, so can’t you compromise ?”. I was so lost for words.

Am I the selfish one here ?

( Even now, he is calling me selfish, stating that I wouldn’t even be considerate as a couple let alone acknowledge the fact that he is sensitive to smell.

I normally use this space to complain/whine ,so I thought about stopping but really want to see this to the end!I sent him a link to your comments, so he changed his stance.

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Comments

- [+262] [-4]
  
  So if he is very sensitive to smell, how can he eat curry ? It seems like, he would feel squeamish and not want to eat it though. Interesting, seems more of a selective sensitivity.
- [+218] [-3]
  
  If that is the case, there is nothing he will be able to eat though.
- [+171] [-6]
  
  So what compromises has he made for you sis?

Korean vocabulary

냄새 : smell, scent
예민한 : keen, acute, sensitive
짜증나다 : irritated
카레 : curry
마침 : opportunely, just at the time
휴일 : holiday
아점 : Brunch It’s a combination of breakfast and lunch
재료 : material, ingredient
빠지다 : sink down into; be thrown into,fall into; get into,be deceived; be cheated; fall into
세탁실 : laundry room
창문 : window
버너 : burner
어이가 없어서 : in amazement,in surprise,perplexed, absurd
환기 : ventilation,arousal, awakening, stirring up
매번 : every time
야채 : vegetable
볶다 : stir-fry,nag, pester
나머지 : the rest,remainder,outcome, result
주방 : kitchen
심하다 : excessive
배려하다 : to be considerate
이기적인 : selfish,egoistic,self-seeking
본인 : person concerned
인정 : recognition, acknowledgment
A 기는 커녕, B : on the contrary, rather than A; B
부부 : couple
끼리 : between
하소연 : complaint, whining
끝까지 : to the end
정신 승리 : mental victory / moral victory,winning spirit,Psychological victory
기가 차다 : be dumbfounded, be speechless, be lost for words
의견 : opinion
비위(가) 상하다 : be offended,feel hurt,be disgusted[displeased], to feel squeamish
선택적 : choosing, selective