“Forget the Pre Marital Counseling, get to a Dietitian ASAP.”
You seemed to have missed the point. We were young, dumb and in love. He was a Dem, I was a Republican. He had no problem with being “entitled” to spend all afternoon at the all-you-can-eat buffet. My thinking was spending 45 minutes to an hour at best, then leaving a really good tip. If we’d discussed or discovered theses issues prior to marriage, it would have saved a huge amount of pain for us, our children and our extended families.
Regarding the rest of your Post, I agree. We used to expect people to have “manners”. In this day and age, manners mean nothing.
Now it's get what you can and screw the other guy. We have a President and a Political Party who thinks that way, so nothing surprises me any more.
Sorry you had such a bad situation to deal with. With Soetero in the White House, I'm finding out what Relatives and Friends really think life owes them and it ain't pretty.