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WhatThePuck · 23/04/2017 16:38

In most other ways he's fine (few issues as normal) but point blank refuses to cook.
In 12 years of marriage and 17 years together never once cooked.
I by the way am a SAHP who at least likes to feed DC from scratch at least 4 times a week even if it's simple. DH only able to do at weekends which I totally get.
His reason: I can't cook
I've bought books, sometimes forced him to help but it always creates an argument.
We had a small flat and he said the kitchen was too small. We have now moved and kitchen is big but he doesn't know where anything is Hmm
I've tried once or twice to leave him to it but he just takes DC out to eat or gives waffles and fish fingers.
Once I had somewhere to go & was going to be back late and asked him to pick up DC from school. I then asked him what the plans were for dinner for DC and he said he didn't realise he had to cook and something about still working from home so wouldn't get time.
I ended up writing instructions and leaving out ingredients for toad in the hole.
If he was left to his devices he would eat cereal all day long. Fine but what about the kids?
I feel that he doesn't understand how much time and thought actually goes into planning for a meal and the frustration of thinking of what to cook everyday. Its really frustrating although he hasn't said he expects me to cook I have told him that because he doesn't it obviously means I have to.
Since we didn't have space before we didn't have friends round but now I'd like to invite people over. I told him we need to put some dates in diary for one of my long term friends.
He said yes but he wanted to invite his friend another time. I said half jokingly fine what are you going to make. I was left with no comment.
Every birthday I bake & decorate a cake cos he has a sweet tooth. Last year I said I didn't want a gift I wanted him to show that he went to effort i.e. make a cake but that never happened.
WWYD & am I being U and asking too much?

OP posts:
Aquamarine1029 · 24/04/2017 02:46

He sounds like a fucking useless baby. I'd want to strangle him if I were you. This is what happens when a men isn't taught by their parents to care for themselves.

ElinorRigby · 24/04/2017 08:40

I do think cooking is easier than it used to be. As well as ready-made meals/beige food to be heated up, there are lots of semi readymade meals. For example curry sauces with instructions about frying an onion, and browning meat then stirring in the sauce. There are also a great many youtube videos, books about meals in minutes etc.

Plus gender roles are less rigid. We've moved away from the idea of the man as the breadwinner and the woman as homemaker. (This was never true anyway. Lots of women always worked then - as now - partly so the famiily could keep a roof over its head.)

So a man refusing to cook seems to be rather too much like a man who is saying, I reject the 21st century.

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