Thanks. Good to know I'm not the only one. I'll have to talk to him about it and remind him that they aren't just there for when I fancy a snack.Oh sorry to hear he's been eating your glucose tabsCan you hide them or something? Maybe keep them in your handbag or a locked drawer/cupboard? I'm not sure how you can get him to stop eating them? My friend tells me her hubby steals her hypo treatments as well. She said she just keeps a mix of everything right around the house (juice, tabs, sweets, etc). She said she's had to resort to dissolving sugar in water recently though because her hubby finds everything and ate her supply. He apparently promises to replace it but she always has to do that. At least he doesn't steal her batteries for her pump she says. Maybe you could ask your hubby to report what he has eaten of your supply so that way you know what needs replacing? I would hope he realises how serious it is that he needs to help you keep your stash available. I wish you the best.
Take them out of their packet and place in a jar. Tell him that they fell in the toilet, but you managed to rescue them. If he still takes them, then tell him he is weird.Oh sorry to hear he's been eating your glucose tabsCan you hide them or something? Maybe keep them in your handbag or a locked drawer/cupboard? I'm not sure how you can get him to stop eating them? My friend tells me her hubby steals her hypo treatments as well. She said she just keeps a mix of everything right around the house (juice, tabs, sweets, etc). She said she's had to resort to dissolving sugar in water recently though because her hubby finds everything and ate her supply. He apparently promises to replace it but she always has to do that. At least he doesn't steal her batteries for her pump she says. Maybe you could ask your hubby to report what he has eaten of your supply so that way you know what needs replacing? I would hope he realises how serious it is that he needs to help you keep your stash available. I wish you the best.
Jeepers, if I ever needed proof about just how addictive sugar is, this thread would convince me. What desperados your sugar addicts must be
There was a test done with kids & sweets years ago..When we're toddlers we start to learn the very simple behaviour-consequence model. And consequently we do more of certain things and less of others. Of course there are exceptions but consequences are a good place to start and unless he is actually addicted to your goodies should deliver a result. So you could identify something that you do for him that he enjoys..... and stop doing it when he crosses a boundary. To stop this escalating you would have to match his mood when he crosses your boundary - which is almost certainly carefree and self indulgent rather than malicious and vengeful (not suggesting you would be). And the two have to be linked. It's a lot like training a dog.
That figures...my daughter has zero self control and zero money at the end of every month lolThere was a test done with kids & sweets years ago..
Basically they leave the kid in a room with a sweet & tell them they can eat the sweet whenever they like, but if they wait & not consume it? They would get another sweet..
The kids that didn't scoff the first sweet & waited were found to be more likely to be better off with financial planning later in life...
That's an interesting one. Perhaps just ask him what he's going to do when you have a hypo. Or what your child is going to do when he's not around and you ask her to get mum her dextrose tablets because you don't feel well.It was OK when he nicked the odd cereal bar from my stash - keep in mind that I do buy or make cake/biscuits/sweet things for general family consumption. Bit today I noticed he has nicked my dextrose tabs grom bedside table.
Also, why in gods name would anyone be snacking of dextrose tablets out of choice? It's sugary cement. Are you sure he's not pregnant - could be a craving?
Labour could be suitable punishment.I'm really sorry if I'm missing the obvious - but you have actually tried explaining to him what a hypo is and why you need the dextrose. I get that he flipping well should know, but it might be worth having a really frank chat with him, he's not a child & should be able to understand that dextrose tablets on the bedside table are there for if you have a hypo in the middle of the night so you can treat it quickly without passing out and/or dying.
If he can't get the don't eat my dextrose tablets so I don't die rule then I'm kind of out of options. I don't know, maybe individually throw a whole pack of tablets at him, just for entertainment.
Also, why in gods name would anyone be snacking of dextrose tablets out of choice? It's sugary cement. Are you sure he's not pregnant - could be a craving?
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