Guys: Do you really mind if a girl can't cook? (dating, girls)
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I never said I was a bad cook. I just don't like it!
That was directed at those who cannot cook. Not those that don't like it. I understand that. I don't understand people that are unable to do it. It's not hard.
Does it really bother y'all that much? Seriously, is food that big a deal?
It's not that I can't cook. I can, I'm good at baking. It's just I don't like cooking! It takes too long and I'm not patient... AT ALL!
All this crap about the way to a man's heart is food. WTF!
I know how to cook pretty well. Most guys I met don't care if a woman knows how to cook. Some insist on you not cooking.
I think this is a stereotype or misconception from mainstream culture from the 60s kinda thinking.
Cooking is fun. Cooking to keep a man is kinda.. sad. The key to a man's heart isn't about how well a woman can cook, it's how she makes him feel, vice versa.
I know how to cook pretty well. Most guys I met don't care if a woman knows how to cook. Some insist on you not cooking.
I think this is a stereotype or misconception from mainstream culture from the 60s kinda thinking.
Cooking is fun. Cooking to keep a man is kinda.. sad. The key to a man's heart isn't about how well a woman can cook, it's how she makes him feel, vice versa.
I disagree with the bolded. IMO, I won't cook every night for the rest of my life, therefore the woman I end up with will need to know how to cook. We can then take turns based on schedules.
Personally I prefer to cook because a lot of guys prefer doing the 'out of box' or 'instant' stuff...and Im a 'made from scratch' country girl. And I dont substitute from the real thing. No diet stuff, no salt free, no instant rice, nothing instant... again, thats the country style in me...
I wouldn't want him to cook every night, either, even if he was on Top Chef. My point is that I just don't feel like eating a big meal every night.
What I don't understand is why so many men can't seem to eat a meal alone. I've never known one who could just sit down, fuel up, and be done with it. It always has to be a shared thing. Not necessarily a big to-do, but it has to be with someone.
And then they complain if their wives or girlfriends get fat. Newsflash: The reason a lot of single women or women who live alone are slender is because they don't eat traditional American dinners.
Yeah, yeah, "Just because he's eating it doesn't mean you have to."
Right, and go out or cook, have a few bites, and then sit there watching him eat. Okay. Then it's, "What? Aren't you hungry?"
Perhaps this is my baggage. I could not STAND dealing with that when I was married. I'd come home from work, work out, and then after I got out of the shower, he'd ask me what I wanted to do for dinner. Not what I wanted to make, but what I wanted to do--me cook, him cook, get take-out, go out, grab a pizza. At 8:00 at night. Heaven forbid I said, "I'm not really hungry, so I'm just going to have a bowl of cereal, but don't let me stop you."
Oh, the POUTING.
We ended up eating a lot of pizza. I still can't eat pizza that often, 8 years later.
My current man is not nearly as tedious about it, but he still has a thing about having to eat together. Whatever, it's a compromise I make, but it is a compromise.
I dunno. I guess a lot of people see food as a social thing, and that's understandable. But I see it as fuel. If I could have some kind of expanding vitamin that made me full three times a day and have a brownie as an evening snack, I'd be fine with it.
I wouldn't want him to cook every night, either, even if he was on Top Chef. My point is that I just don't feel like eating a big meal every night.
What I don't understand is why so many men can't seem to eat a meal alone. I've never known one who could just sit down, fuel up, and be done with it. It always has to be a shared thing. Not necessarily a big to-do, but it has to be with someone.
And then they complain if their wives or girlfriends get fat. Newsflash: The reason a lot of single women or women who live alone are slender is because they don't eat traditional dinners.
Yeah, yeah, "Just because he's eating it doesn't mean you have to."
Right, and go out or cook, have a few bites, and then sit there watching him eat. Okay. Then it's, "What? Aren't you hungry?"
Perhaps this is my baggage. I could not STAND dealing with that when I was married. I'd come home from work, get into my workout clothes, work out, and then after I got out of the shower, he'd ask me what I wanted to do for dinner. Not what I wanted to make, but what I wanted to do--me cook, him cook, get take-out, go out, grab a pizza. At 8:00 at night. Heaven forbid I said, "I'm not really hungry, so I'm just going to have a bowl of cereal, but don't let me stop you."
Oh, the POUTING.
We ended up eating a lot of pizza. I still can't eat pizza that often, to this day, 8 years later.
My current man is not nearly as tedious about it, but he still has a thing about having to eat together. Whatever, it's a compromise I make, but it is a compromise.
I dunno. I guess a lot of people see food as a social thing, and that's understandable. But I see it as fuel. If I could have some kind of expanding vitamin that made me full three times a day and have a brownie as an evening snack, I'd be fine with it.
You need to date somebody like me. I have no problem eating a 32 OZ steak by myself and I won't ever object to a girl saying they don't want to eat
You need to date somebody like me. I have no problem eating a 32 OZ steak by myself and I won't ever object to a girl saying they don't want to eat
You would think more men would say that, what with all the whining and complaining on these boards about paying for dinner and being used as a meal ticket.
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Then it's, "What? Aren't you hungry?" 
