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Because it's a very popular, traditional ingredient in a lot of soups. You would have the same problem if you didn't like onions or carrots.

I don't care for crunch in soup, but a like the celery flavor. I've added celery seeds to things I don't want actual celery in. I'll make stock with celery, onions, and carrots, and then strain them out.

Hips on B look wider, so I'll go with that. Not sure what that separation below the rib cage is for.

My mom died of Alzheimer's, but she also had bad rheumatoid arthritis and some other stuff. When she just didn't know who we were, it was one thing, but when every day she woke up in pain, had to have her diapers changed by "strangers," couldn't swallow solid food, etc., I just didn't understand why my siblings wanted to keep her on the medication that slowed the progress of the Alzheimer's. I finally had my brother stay with her over a weekend, and afterwards he was like, "Oh, she's having a miserable life, what are we doing?" We stopped the medication soon after, and she died a few months later.

I'm an old guy, and have had lots of pet over my life. so I've thought about this a lot.

Years ago I came to the position that the most compassionate thing to do for my pets was to try and assess if their days are more full of joy, or more full of pain and suffering. We can't ask our pets that, we can only do our best to figure it out. If they're spending more time suffering than enjoying their lives, then I think it's a kindness to put them down.

We don't usually have to make that decision for other humans, because they can decide for themselves. Note that we do make the decision sometimes to "pull the plug" on people rather than keep the alive.

Also note that animals do sometimes go off to die when they're sick and miserable. In fact, when dogs and cats have illnesses that are miserable but treatable, we sometimes have to be careful that they don't go off to die before treatment is done.

First, don’t tell me that the answer is just to “not bottle things up”, because that’s objectively incorrect too.

Well, no, it's not objectively incorrect. I get the sense that the main problem you have is communicating negative emotions without being overly confrontational or acerbic about it. My experience is that it's very possible to tell someone you're unhappy about something without making a major deal out of it.

Also, I'm curious about how often you find yourself in the situation we're taking about. Everybody had occasions where they have to vent frustrating, but if that's a super frequency occurrence, there might be something else going on. Sometimes it should be enough to take a deep breath, recognize that the issue is minor, and let it go.