How would you describe a man child

[Elecktra22]

Just that really. How would you identify someone as such, would it be living at home in the household in late 30s or would it be gaming, partying etc or …?

If he expects a mummy or mummy substitute to take care of all things domestic for him.

Posted too soon. He needs to pull his weight cooking, cleaning, doing laundry etc and pay his fair share into the household.

Any or all:

• lacks respect for women and expects them to run around after him (eg: housework/paying household bills ect) and do any childcare.
• Can't hold down a job, preferring instead to spend all his time gaming/watching footabll/going out with the lads ect...
• Plays his mother off against his partner or fails to stand up for his partner if his mother is nasty to heror about her.
• Late 20s onwards and has never stayed away from home, doesn't pay rent, badmouths his parents for restricting what he does in THEIR home ect...

A man who doesn't take responsibility for simple things like putting his laundry in the basket (or the washing machine), does the washing up badly on purpose and leaves all manner of household/life admin to others. Basically behaving like an overgrown adolescent.

Has learned from media images (ads showing man trailing washing powder all over the floor, putting nappies on baby backwards) and from relationships with women who like this sort of thing, that acting like an ineffectual boy is cute and charming. He will run his hands through his hair staring perplexed at the buttons on the washing machine waiting for a woman to do it for him. He is facilitated by women who refer to him as their 'boy' and love telling anecdotes about how he's helpless without them.
His more sinister brother is a man who has never sufficiently matured to consider anyone's needs than his own. Like a child, he will do and take what he wants without consideration for anyone or thought for the consequences. He is incapable of offering stability, support or a meaningful contribution to a partnership, yet expects all of these things as his right from his partner, and will act out like a (dangerous) child having a tantrum when he feels he's not getting them.

A grown man who:
Tantrums
Throws stuff
Storms off with the hump
Sulks for days on end

Having worked in childcare for many years and had my own children, this is absolutely my definition of a manchild.

I also had an ex-husband who needed a mummy substitute and constantly picking up after or kicking up the arse (figuratively, but I was very tempted to get literal at times!)

Johnny Depp

Wanting to be the centre of attention in any setting

If it wasn’t so outing, I’d just post a photo of my ex husband 🤷🏻‍♀️
But basically what everyone else has said - a grown man who can’t navigate the adult world without a surrogate mummy to do it all for him.

@Ringmaster27 😂
thanks everyone, you know the problem, love is blind. Sometimes need a reality check!

@Elecktra22 oh definitely. I take full responsibility for enabling his behaviour for as long as I did.
Since we separated, he’s struggled because he’s now learning how to take care of himself without having someone there to do it for him.
He’s not a bad person, not by a long shot. He’s just always had someone - whether it be me, his grandmother or his workplace there to do all the adulting for him.

It’s tough though isn’t it because you do end up feeling responsible