**My wife and I are on the brink of divorce over peanut butter**


I guess it all started 9-10 years ago when I was dating my now-wife. She mentioned she liked Jiff and I liked Skippy. This became a dumb little cute argument that ultimately brought us together.

My wife does the grocery shopping and she usually gets this really good local peanut butter that we both like. Unfortunately they closed up shop for COVID and so we can’t get that peanut butter anymore. So she got Jiff.

Now I’m not sure if anyone else has experienced this. But Jiff tastes awful to me. Something in there reacts with my taste buds in such an awful way it doesn’t even taste like peanut butter anymore. So naturally, I went to the grocery store myself just for Skippy and put it in the fridge (yes I like my peanut butter cold).

One day my son decided he wants a PB&J and naturally his sister then wants one too. My wife finds the Skippy and looks at me with a death stare. I didn’t know if she was mad or joking or remembering our cute little peanut butter arguments when we first started dating. Before I could find out, my son shouts “SKIPPY mom what’s Skippy!” So I chime in stating the unequivocal fact that skippy is the premier peanut butter brand in America.

My wife didn’t take too kindly to that. Something that I said in a half-joking manner turned into something bigger. I remember my wife saying something like “you’re not having skippy, you’re having Jiff.” Well of course that only made him want skippy more. My daughter liked the sound of Jiff, I guess, so she got the Jiff.

My wife refused to make my sons PB&J. I was kind of shocked but wound up making it. Well.. we’re currently on week 2 and I’m making all my sons sandwiches regardless of if it’s a PB&J. It’s turned into an all out war. My son hid the Jiff from my daughter. She cries, runs to her mom. My wife yells at my son and eventually me too, cause I thought hiding the Jiff was a funny playful thing to do.

This caused a full-fledged fight, in front of our children, that ended with my wife shouting “WE ARE A JIFF FAMILY AND NOTHING IS CHANGING THAT.”

I let her cool down and eventually told her we can be a Jiff family but im going to continue hiding Skippy in the fridge somewhere the kids won’t find it, to which she told me they find everything so it’s pointless. I tried hiding it and she’s right, my son found it the next day.

My wife and I aren’t on good terms because of this. I have no clue what her infatuation with brands of peanut butter are about but I guess I’m the same way if I can only eat Skippy brand. We barely talk to each other anymore. It’s been days and the most I get is a head nod. The worst part of it is I went into her texts and she mentioned divorce to one of her friends. Didn’t look like a joke either.

All over peanut butter.

What do I do?


Link to the legendary post: [https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship\_advice/comments/lh0rmt/my\_wife\_and\_i\_are\_on\_the\_brink\_of\_divorce\_over/](https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/lh0rmt/my_wife_and_i_are_on_the_brink_of_divorce_over/)