Am I being petty?

So since high-school I've always been a bit of a germaphobe, especially when it comes to things such as sharing drinks- bit of a back story, I let a "friend" have a bit of my drink in school and they looked me in the eye and spat into it, since then I just can't share drinks/food, and it has since gone from that to not being able to share bottles/plates/cutlery. So I have step daughter (4) and a bio daughter (9 months), we all have our own drink bottles for milk/juice/water- the 4 year old has about 5 different bottles with rainbows/unicorns on them, the 9 month old has teddy bear cups with soft straws, my other half has a blue bottle, and I have a see through bottle with a pink lid- so we all know who's bottle is who, they're all completely different During the night the other half made the 4 year old a bottle of milk in my bottle, and now he's saying that I'm being petty and ridiculous that I won't drink out of the bottle until it had been washed and sterilised It's all sorted now, but he's still calling me petty for it because having kids means sharing foods/drinks/bottles and stuff and I get that and it's something I'm trying to work on- I managed to eat some food off a fork that the other half had been using the other day (his food looked really nice and I wanted to try it) So I just want others opinions on this, am I being petty?

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I don’t drink after anyone especially not my 3 year old lol. So I get it, I don’t think you’re being petty.

I don’t share drinks. I find it disgusting. My in laws all drink from the same cup. I don’t even like sharing a cup with my husband and that’s an issue to him too. My parents never shared anything and I was raised that way too. I don’t drink from my cups if my husband drank from them. I get annoyed when I bring water with me if we go for walks and he asks for some because he never brings anything to drink. Ever.

I avoid sharing drinks with my son as he generally gets food bits and spit into it 😅 The washing I get, the sterilizing might be a bit much. I can understand it's hard for you though. I got super germaphobic during my second pregnancy, to the point where my hands were cracking from washing them too much. It can take a while to move past it, and it's great you're working on it 💚

@Erina I started getting better with hand washing- my hands were always so dry and cracked and bleeding from how much I washed them- but then I started looking after them a bit more, washing after the toilet, before food, when I first got inside (not just because I touched something that didn't feel right like I used to, now I just do a little hand shake to "shake it off"😂)- and then covid hit and I work in a cafe and it was constant hand washing, I went right back to the beginning and had to start all over again, the past 4 years have been horrible trying to get back to where I was It wasn't just hand washing that was effected then, it got to the point where I couldn't even kiss my boyfriend at the time, so I know I've made progress since then😂

Yeah, covid killed my hands too 😅 All the constant sanitizers we had to use. Great that you've made so much progress 😊