it's 2013, why are women playing mother to their husbands?

Not domesticated dear, its just that no one would ever get fed if they had to wait for me to come home and cook. Last year i averaged 75-80 hours per week working on the river building a bridge. That did not include travel time back and forth to the jobsite.

Bless him - my fella does attempt to cook from time to time BUT he is then in and out of the kitchen that often asking me how to do things, and leaves such a mess (using every pot and pan in the house) that in the long run, it is much easier to just do it myself. He is grateful for everything that I make, or if it is something he doesn't fancy, he is quite capable f making a sandwich or bunging something in the microwave.

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My partner is a stay at home parent and does the cooking. I add in extra veggies for myself and my kids.

"Eating healthy should be a great new plan for the whole family. "

I agree, however, when you are dealing with a family that have several different food allergies(some severe), it can be difficult.

cooking is playing mother? lol my mom did and still does so much more than that but ok. i cook for my family and i normally make two meals or at least two variations. my son and i rarely if at all eat meat. my daughter and fiancee are meat lovers. i don't want my man to cook. he can but it isn't anything anyone would want to ingest. i actually started cooking for him early in our relationship because i felt sorry that he had to eat his food. he didn't mind my meals and i didn't mind cooking them. i even taught him how to cook some simple dishes and bought him a crockpot to make things easier. anyways, outside of that we take care of EACH OTHER in our own way and we love it.

It's 2013, why are you worried about what another woman is doing for her husband?

Get bent with your generalizations and accusations.

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anyways, are you really 32?

I love to cook and while I don't make completely separate meals for each of us, I do sometimes halve things so I can add ingredients to mine that he doesn't like. I don't think that makes me his mother, though.

OP have you ever tried to make a tiny human eat something they absolutely hate? Its so much fun its like pulling your fingernails out with rusty pliers.

Now i have not ever been married and I do not have a tiny human of my own (thank some higher power that be)

I was a live in nanny for my brother for 6 years and trust me there was a rule that the tiny human had to try everything that was made, if she didn't like it (and you can tell when they simply don't like or do not want something) I would make her a different meal. I also cooked for my brother as he was in school - him and I have vastly different tastes in food so I would make him a completely different meal that I made myself or his daughter. Sometimes its not about playing mother its about actually making food that someone will eat.

All 3 of my brothers can cook, and they are fantastic at it. The one with the tiny human actually does all the cooking when he isn't working nights.

I do all the cooking in our house. If we're really lucky my husband might be home for 1 dinner a week. If we waited for him to cook, we'd starve. He can cook, hes just never here to do it. I also do all the housework, most of the repairs, all the errands, and everything that the kids require (including homeschooling our 10 year old), plus anything the dog needs. Again, hes just not here to do it. If he is home for a day, he helps out with the kids. Cooks them breakfast, dresses them, changes diapers etc.

I try to cook 1 meal a night, but sometimes its just not possbile. In our house we have: Between myself and the kids, dairy/gluten/corn/soy/peanut and treenut allergies and intolerances, so I usually end up haivng to tweak what is on the side to fit everyones needs. And since my husband is the only one in the house that can eat gluten, I made, and freeze, pasta dishes for him and on night when we are having something he really doesn't like, I just throw one in the oven.

I do not cook for him when he gets home. His dinner gets cooked, and put in the microwave. When he gets home he can heat it up. He works in the oilpatch, somedays he doesn't get home until 11 or 12, I"m not going to be up cooking at that time. We have friends that used to do that, the husband texts his wife on his way home and she'll get up and cook for him. No matter the time, (he's a truck driver) 3am was normal to them. Then they had kids. And it all stopped, much to the husbands disgust.