How many women do this?

[Twinkles23]

How often do you prepare meals a day for your partner?
I’ve been told tonight that some women prepare meals 4 times a day for their partner. We’ve had a huge argument over it. Surely this isn’t correct? I’ve told him this isn’t the 1950s anymore. I make him lunch and sometimes dinner if he wants it. He usually doesn’t. But now apparently I should be.

It's even in our household.

I thought you were leaving. What’s stopping you?

Tell him you are not Some Woman, you are you and this is the way its going to be.

Just dinner really as DH doesn’t cook.
Occasionally we will make each other breakfast or lunch depending on what we are having but most of them time we make those meals for ourselves as I only eat two meals a day and he eats 3.

Breakfast tends to be made on your own if its like cereal. Take turns at weekend if have English breakfast.

Make own dinner if working.

For tea whoever is home first puts on. Other does washing up.

Supper, ppl get what they want.

None.

He makes his own lunches and dinners.

I'm really bad at cooking so DH makes all the meals

I'm currently on mat leave. He works around 60 hours a week so I almost always do dinner for when he gets in so we can all eat together. At the weekend, he enjoys doing a lot of the cooking, preparing us all lunch. Sometimes if I've been up in the night with little ones I'll lie in and he'll do a nice breakfast for him and the kids. Very much shared in this house. He also cleans sometimes too! 😮

Don't eat breakfast. Lunch we all do our own thing. Dinner used to always be me when I was a sahp and also when I went back to work part time. But dp has generally pulled his weight in other ways. Since lockdown everyone has taken turns to do dinner. One of the few good things to come out of lockdown.

I cook the evening meal. All other meals are DIY. Oh, except weekends when I make bacon sandwiches but he has to make me tea in bed first.

Even the DC have done DIY breakfast and lunch most of the time post about 13. I do keep the fridge filled though.

MIL did everything for FIL and worked. If she was in she even stirred his tea. Cheese sandwich every day with a halved pickled onion on the side. I did it once and put the cheese in vertically rather than horizontally. Never again!

My dad does dinner every day, my mum does lunch and Sunday roast. They are in their 70s !

@LochJessMonster

Err I would only cook a meal if it was for the both of us. Why would you cook a meal for someone else when you aren’t eating it?

I regularly make meals for my wife when I am not eating. Granted, they aren't necessarily always fancy four courses, but why do I do it? Because she likes it, and is appreciative when I do I guess.

I regularly make meals for my wife when I am not eating. Granted, they aren't necessarily always fancy four courses, but why do I do it? Because she likes it, and is appreciative when I do I guess.

Is there a reason she isn’t doing it for herself?

The constant competition is a problem, you should be supporting each other on the same team not fighting over who is more busy/tired

I cook most of the dinners but then my husband does all the washing so it’s fair enough

I usually do most of the cooking, but I like doing it and my husband does loads around the house so I don't mind. Sometimes he'll make waffles for breakfast, or will prepare lunch. But it's not all me and not 4 x a day!

Give him a banana for lunch and tell him you’ll put more effort in when he evolves

We both work full time from home. We do our own breakfast and lunch as we don't coincide times (it's just easier). We do 50/50 on dinners for each other. Sometimes I'll cook something special for us like a roast dinner or special brunch at the weekend, but generally we do half and half.

Four meals a day? Is he a Hobbit?

I don’t really cook any meals for DH, I cook for me and DD and then he makes himself something later on. Sometimes at the weekend I’ll make something for all of us, but generally he fends for himself.

Like most, I don't even eat 4 meals a day.

Here, everyone gets their own breakfast.
Everyone gets their own lunch (though sometimes if dh fancies a bacon sarnie, he'll come and ask me if I want one).
Whoever makes the evening meal, makes it for everyone. Sometimes that will be me, sometimes hm, and sometimes one of the dc.

He works FT. I work PT.

Oh, and my parents got married in 1955. My Dad was perfectly capable of making his own breakfast and lunch.

Not RTFT because this from post #2 covers it nicely:
Tell him to fuck off

I WFH, DH goes out to work. He makes his own sandwiches, we take turns making dinner. It's not the 1950s, I am not the housekeeper.

@PurpleDaisies

I regularly make meals for my wife when I am not eating. Granted, they aren't necessarily always fancy four courses, but why do I do it? Because she likes it, and is appreciative when I do I guess.

Is there a reason she isn’t doing it for herself?

Short answer...she's too lazy to do it for herself.

She's not demanding, and is generally aware of what I may already be doing, and doesn't expect me to drop everything to serve her. She won't get angry if I don't, but if I don't she won't do it for herself.

We wing it here, DP is on nights this week and I'm WFH so I'm picking up the majority of the slack this week but when he's off nights we share cooking, chores etc, we don't have jobs or compare who's done what we just get on with it. If one cooks we both wash or dry up. No DC tho so it's just us to worry about

I make dinner every weekend and every other week. He makes all dinners every other week.

If I'm making my lunch I might make his but usually we sort breakfast and lunch ourselves.

Who eats four meals a day?

One day DH might make me breakfast lunch and dinner

The next day I might make him breakfast lunch and dinner

I love cooking and would keep making things if I had the time and the people to eat it

But what is the 4th meal of the day?

I work P. T so have more time. So I mainly do the evening dinners.
He doesn't eat breakfast in the week. I make mine and if DD wants any ill make hers too.
He makes his packed lunch, I wfh so do mine and dd's while she homeschools.
Weekends, he tends to do bacon and egg French stick or a fry up for us. Or he might do bbq chicken or pulled pork. Or we may make our pizza together.
Your man sounds a bit sexist.