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My 48 male bf 48 and his ideal relationship
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Two full time jobs plus a second shift at home equals one person subsidizing the other’s comfort, and when that subsidy is renamed tradition the resentment arrives right on schedule. Culture tries to launder it through charm and nostalgia but logistics take attendance: daily cooking beats quarterly oil changes, mental load outlasts folded laundry, and a tidy vibe cannot balance an unequal ledger.
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Adults don’t resent care, they resent conscription. The durable model is boring in the best way: list the tasks, count the hours, split by capacity, adjust as life changes, treat time like money because it is. Anything else turns love into a quiet subsidy with a smile tax. He didn’t confess a preference, he revealed a business plan that needs an employee, not a partner. And the punchline is simple enough to write on a sticky note: if the job description is chef cleaner coordinator and co‑earner, the compensation is partnership or it’s nothing at all.
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‘A personal chef, maid and babysitter who still pays half the bills!’: 48-year-old single man describes his unrealistic expectations from a partner, neatly exposing his lifelong bachelor status
This guy just handed his lifelong best friend a memo explaining why he's been single since dial‑up, complete with a royal decree of demands that would make an arranged marriage broker blush.
The vision isn't a relationship so much as a staffing plan: she funds herself, pays her bills, cooks nightly, keeps the home showroom‑ready, and he graciously performs ritual tire checks like a benevolent lord of maintenance. That is not romance, it's outsourcing with pet names, a housewife fantasy minus the single‑income safety net that once made it plausible. The funny part is how neatly the math exposes the myth.
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