Help! My husband is a pothead!!!

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After we were married, we decided to chuck all the old Revere stuff and start over with a new set of pots and pans. He got on the internet and researched everything for weeks, and finally we got a Cuisinart set.

Then he discovered Citram Cybernox (sp?). Got a set of three saute pans.

Next, he had to have some new non-stick saute pans, with that black coating. Three of those.

Then, he discovered Martha Stewart's pots at K-Mart, heavy with bolted-on handles. "We already have pots that size!" I said. "But these are different shapes than we have!" One had rounded sides, one had sides that sloped outward, etc., and they all had fancy names like "Windsor," which he may have made up for all I know.

But then he started finding copper pots and pans at discount stores, and since then he's gone straight downhill. Last year, he bought himself some as Christmas gifts. By this Christmas, he was just buying them boldly, right in front of me. "I just want to go into Marshall's for a second," he says -- but I know what it's about. "Let's stop in Home Goods." He may SAY he's looking for an orange zester, but he ends up at the pans, cruising for copper.

I often catch him in time. "Drop it!... Step aWAY from the copper..."

Yesterday I was teaching piano lessons and he came home from a business meeting, carring his briefcase in one hand and two bags in the other... Obviously, he didn't come straight home, and I saw the glint of copper pans inside the white plastic bags. "DID YOU BUY MORE COPPER PANS???"... "Huh? Well... "

I'm sure he thinks he can quit anytime he wants to. I'm wondering if there's a 12-step program for this.