re: How many of you are married to women who can't cook?

My wife can't cook. Makes about $500 less than I do a year.

Frustrating at times but she gets a pass.

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If your wife is the primary breadwinner, you get a pass.

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My wife and I go back and forth as to who earns the more money. Usually depends on which of us has swapped jobs most recently. We both do the cooking and she does the vast majority of the housework (generally speaking I pick up and do my own laundry) and I do all of the yardwork and maintenance of cars and the house. Been married 35 years, have one kid off the payroll and one just starting middle school....it works.

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And if they can't cook, why did you marry them?

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Cause I love her and she was/is good looking. Has a good job too and doesn’t hassle me. Besides, I enjoy cooking and I’m good at It.

She does not cook well, and she knows it.

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And if they can't cook, why did you marry them?

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Her brain and the sex.

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If your wife is the primary breadwinner, you get a pass.

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I asked my wife why she couldn't cook biscuits like my mama did and she told me she could if I brought home the dough like her daddy did....

I think Jerry Clower should be credited with that line...if not Im going to do so anyhow...

My wife is such a bad cook that I don’t even let her microwave leftovers for me.

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It definitely seems like a lot less people these days cook for utility like they did in the old days, but a lot more people cook for fun/as a hobby because of the explosion in food centric TV/internet.

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Seriously, how can it be that every damn grocery store in town is packed from open to close AND every restaurant be the same??? WTF is going on with people and food???

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my kids are excited for her nights out not because we're going to do pizzas, but because i'm going to do some real gourmet shite.

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My kids thought Kraft mac and cheese was the epitome of good high living until they were 12 or so...if it was the shells and white cheddar they thought that was what was meant by gourmet cooking....

Mine thinks “fricking” and “cooking” are two towns in China.

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Especially those few instances when I feel like a-hole having to google a 6th grade math problem.

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I have a fix for this. Seriously, it works like a charm.

Be interested in your kids math and science homework. Get into it....when they ask for your help take them off down a rabbit hole about how you have applied the very theory they are struggling with in your life many times over. Give examples and provide the theory behind the math or the science...hold forth on the subject like it is the most fascinating thing you have ever ran across. One of two things will happen...they will stop asking for help and pay attention in school and ask questions there or they will get bitten by the bug of learning why and not how and that will serve them well in all matters in life.

My son took the first route...wound up getting full ride offers from 3 universities in engineering. Turned them all down and went to film school LOL....but he had the math and science to be offered.

My daughter is taking the other road...she is ate up with finding out why, not just how...I build electronic projects and do a lot of woodworking as a hobby...she is all about building circuits and figuring out shop math. Has incredible math grades and is excelling in music because she takes the same approach with music. Social studies and english she can take or leave but if it involves solving a problem and there are numbers involved??? forget about it...she will eat it up and ask for more...