If a girl can't cook, is that a deal breaker?

[MILWJ]

How would you feel if your girlfriend wasn't able to cook anything for you? Would she still be able to win your heart in other ways than through your stomach? I don't think most girls nowadays have much skill in the kitchen... I know I definitely don't.

[adam__808]

No, there are definitely other ways to win a guy's heart, but you can't fall into the trap(that I usually fall into), where you think you're not good enough. You only need to prove yourself in that way in the shallowest of relationships, perhaps like something professional and work related.

So the answer to your second question is "Yes", you will able to win a guy's heart in other ways. Let me say something about love, and how you can tell you're in love. Like I've said earlier, if you get into the Freudian details of why you love a person, it just looks ugly and dissapointing all dissected and measured like that. I don't like doing that.

I like to think that if 1)you make each other feel appreciated and emotionally safe 2)you bring out the best in each other, meaning your presence enables you two to turn each other into awesome people 3)you couldn't see yourself without them, then you are in love. Once you actually and truly fall in love, the hobbies that will keep you two occupied in each others' presense will just flow naturally.

[Gawesome]

LOL yeeeea...most guys that I know (and myself!) don't expect that the modern-day women to have to know how to cook to be our GFs so you have nothing to worry about! That's just really old fashion/traditional thinking.

For me, it's a plus but NOT expected at all. Besides, I can cook so it's all good! Or we dine at nice restaurants til we go poor and get fat! Or I teach you and have crazy food fights in the kitchen! XD

[somnambulated]

I can cook, but if I ever was dating a guy who would leave me (or any other woman he could potentially be with) over the fact that he wanted to settle down and only wanted to settle down with a woman who could cook, oh my god, he would be gone so fast. If I date anyone it will be someone without backwards ideas about traditional gender conformity, and we'll be SHARING chore and cooking duty.

[samhradh_leannan]

A person can always learn to cook, and there's no reason why the woman has to be the one to know how to do it. If a guy ever broke up with me because I couldn't cook, I'd be well rid of him. I would never break up with a guy because he couldn't cook well.

[Pwnfrnzy]

My current girlfriend doesn't know how to cook, but I can cook, so there is no problem with that, and I can also teach her how to cook as well.

[THAT-1-guy]

lol I can't cook either :/ If she can't cook its not really a deal breaker. Its just we have to get some cooking lessons A.S.A.P. because we can't eat fast food every night lol

[ThenThereWas1]

Learning to cook could be something fun you two do together :)

[THAT-1-guy]

Yea, that's what I was thinking. :) It would be fun! :)

[J_White90]

No, I never really had truly home cooked meals growing up, so I'm used to eating poorly. Cooking's more of a bonus than a requirement for me.

[coolllama]

Dude as long as she's willing to learn then I wouldn't care. I can cook but I'd like it if my girlfriend/wife could cook better than me.

[Anonymous]

yeah for me it is since i am from asia and we have cultures
i dont believe in modern or Some disgusting things like that
because its 2019 it doesn't mean women have to be useless
But no its not a dealbreaker for me for western women since im not going to date them...

[MrFlirtatious1992]

Only if I saw her as a potential wife. But other than that, I can take care of myself.

[Moloch]

Not unless she's willing to learn and I'm looking to settle down.

[Lj236]

well I can cook so its all good ;p. I hope she can cook some stuff and it not ill show her :)

[jada771]

Teach her if you really like her and get her a cook book.