Absolutely agree. Been together 22 years, married for 13 and the friendship is the important bit, plus you get great sex and all the other trimmings! Life together long term isn't a romantic whirlwind, practicality has to be an important part of that relationship. It sounds like your main problem is that you want a marriage (& a wedding) and it sounds like he doesn't.

This poster has Absolutely nailed it on the emotional intimacy so I have nothing to add there.

Ahhhh. This is nostalgic. I miss acid.

Secret to the universe?

🎶 It must be bunnies 🎶

Yes. You're being unreasonable because you're assuming America has a greater influence on European cuisine than other European countries, which is crazy. We are literally right next door to each other and you are several timezones away on a different continent. What do you really think is more likely that European cuisine spread to its neighbours or that we just don't try anything our neighbours eat until America tells us to? That's like me saying "wow, they must have KC BBQ in New York now cause its popular in Britain "

Added to which I've been visiting Calabria for about 20 years and I've only seen a notable amount of Americans there since Covid, before that very few if any. Northern Italians though? Yeah, LOADS of them, it's where they go on holiday.

People are downvoting because Nduja is popular because of Italy, not America. Here in the UK a few years back it became the awesome new thing on "This random celebrity travels round Italy" type cooking shows, very quickly after that it was on every cooking show, it was the new trendy ingredient. Nothing to do with America, everything to do with Italy. Ask a Brit where Nduja comes from and if they've heard of it they'll rightly say Italy, most won't even have a clue it even exists in America. Its really reaching to say a southern Italian food is popular in northern Italy because of America. You gonna claim Tropea onions next?

Nduja is the best. We bring a couple back to the UK when we can get to Calabria. You can get it here now, which is nice but it's not the same. Melty nduja on crusty toast with a drizzle of honey is favourite late night snack. Those pizzas look amazing!