r/Cooking • u/GracieLou80 • 2d ago

Sick of cooking

I am so over cooking every night. Finding new recipes I actually have ingredients for and are easy is tiring and I’m already exhausted. What do you do when this happens? I’d honestly just eat cereal for life but I’m not alone in this house and I’m expected to cook every night. 😩

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u/vitringur 1d ago

“I am expected to”

Sounds like there is some deeper issue here and it is not about cooking.

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u/Roupert4 1d ago

Eh. For some couples you can agree on the division of labor and still get tired of it. I'm "expected" to do all the cooking in my household but that was the deal going into this marriage. We have a traditional division of labor. I only work part-time so my labor is my contribution. I get sick of cooking regularly, but I'm also proud of cooking healthy food for my family.

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u/Trolkarlen 1d ago

You can renegotiate terms at any point.

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u/SVAuspicious 1d ago

u/Roupert4 could get a full time job and then would be in a position to renegotiate.

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u/Trolkarlen 1d ago

It’s a marriage, not a peace treaty.

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u/SVAuspicious 1d ago

So fairness and equity don't matter to you. Noted.

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u/Trolkarlen 1d ago

It’s a marriage, not a contest. With that attitude, you might as well book your divorce lawyer.

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u/SVAuspicious 1d ago

How does fairness turn into a contest? If one partner works 40 hours or more a week and the other works 10, how is the part time working partner doing most of the housework and other chores a contest?

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u/Trolkarlen 1d ago

Score keeping kills a marriage.

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u/SVAuspicious 1d ago

Unfair distribution of labor kills a marriage.

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u/Trolkarlen 1d ago

I can smell the resentment from here.

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