That a 40 year old man child is pathetic not endearing?

[RoryAndLogan]

My cousins husband has posted online about meal prep she has done for him. She's going away with work for 3 days, and has filled the fridge with Tupperware labelled 'breakfast', 'lunch' and 'dinner' for each day.

His post was 'wife goals! No going hungry for me!'

He's 39 years old.

She's mentioned in the past how if she's ever away he will just eat pizza if she doesn't prepare his meals as he can't do anything else and talks about it like it's endearing and sweet

AIBU that this isn't at all endearing, but pathetic?

The FB post is cringe, as if he's proud that he can't make his own food for 3 days? Plus wife goals - WTF?

Also why do they need to be labelled, breakfast, lunch and dinner, can he not work it out for himself?

Eating pizza for a couple of days sounds great to me, if DH is out for the evening I enjoy the chance to have boiled eggs or beans on toast instead of cooking.

Each to their own in relationships, but the fb post is cringeworthy.

If my husband did this I would find it annoying. I like making a nice healthy dinner with him but tbh I also enjoy when he is working late or gone away, and I have a take away, cheese and crackers or a toasted sandwich in front of the TV. Or meet a friend for dinner out.

Preparing food for two or more people is a chore, getting food for yourself that's exactly what you want and when is no chore at all imo.

I've seen worse though. I have a male friend who lives with his parents. They once went away on holiday for a month and his mum left him lunch and dinner for each day in the freezer. 60 take away food containers in the freezer! He is 30 years old.

I bet she comes back to find the sink piled up with a mountain of unwashed dishes.......

The husband explicitly posts "wife goals! No going hungry for me!" Why would he go hungry without his wife to cook for him, if he can cook for himself?

Um because it is a little more polite than saying 'I wouldn't have gone hungry anyway'.
Really some people Mners are so literal, so incapable of reading between the lines, I honestly wonder how they get through life..

I think this is quite a complex issue and completely down to the dynamics of them as a couple. If it brings each other mutual joy - including the FB boast - then fine. If she feels in anyway undermined by the cooking or the FB boast or both then I’d feel uncomfortable about it. Personally I wouldn’t do this for my husband because I have no enjoyment of cooking and so it wouldn’t suit my needs to do this for him. He’s more likely to offer to do it for me as he loves to cook.

Really some people Mners are so literal, so incapable of reading between the lines, I honestly wonder how they get through life..

And some Mners are so naive, and so keen to excuse this sort of 1950s nonsense, 5plusMeAndHim, it's painful to read.