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I hear you, buddy. Took me forever to develop a taste for veggies, and I'm still very picky about which ones I like and how I prefer them prepared.
Try infusing your diet with dishes that involve meat and veggies together, so that the meat flavor dominates, like stews, soups, or vegetable-and-meat ragouts. Indian food is also good for this: meat and veg curries were one of the first kinds of veg-heavy dishes I really enjoyed. Ditto for Chinese and/or Thai food: just be sure that you go to/order from good Chinese/Thai places, because well-made Chinese/Thai food is very healthy; poorly-made, cheap-ass Chinese/Thai food is really not.
You just have to eat some veggies, but it's not wrong to just give up on some. I gave up on salad herbs. I just can't do it. I mean, I can get down some mouthfuls to be polite at formal dinners, but raw leaves do nothing for me. For me, it's all about sharp, lightly cooked veggies, like asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, and fennel. But I found it was easier to focus on acquiring tastes for the vegetables I was kind of toeing the line with, once I just admitted to myself that there were a few things I was just officially giving up on.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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