Good in the kitchen or good in the garage -- Which is more important to a partner?

In My Humble Opinion
1

You find yourself at the mate-for-life vending machine. Biggus Dickus, Always-on Anna, Bankus Maximus, and Tall Bloke/Broad are all sold out, but you’re lonely and willing to take whatever’s left. Fortunately, you still have a choice! For 25 cents you get to pick from:

  • The Cook: highly skilled in the kitchen, can turn a grilled cheese sammich into a work of art. And don’t worry about all that lovin going to your waist because this one is also a nutritionist and not at all shy about adapting the grub to support your dietary goals/needs. Absolutely average in every other way.

  • The Fixer: “handy around the home” doesn’t begin to do justice. Whatever part of your home is failing or in need of improvement, this model will git er done pronto, right the first time, and better than you’d imagined. Might get a little spendy as these things do, but you can rest assured the solution will always be a balance of quality and value. Absolutely average in every other way.

Which one!?!?!

2

I eat every day; hopefully something doesn’t need to be fixed every day. I’d rather a good cook & a handyman on speed dial.

3

I don’t need repair work done every day, but I do need to eat everyday.

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4

Tough choice here. I should pick the area where I’m weak, but I enjoy cooking and I’m fairly handy as far as household projects.

So, I think I’ll go with the cook (which is, indeed, my current situation).

5

My wife appreciates both of those skills. She calls me Emeril in the kitchen and Bob the Builder in the garage. Just remodeled 2 bathrooms, just have some sheetrock repair to do and it will be all done.

6

Ahhh…but which do YOU want vs. a wasted and lonely life?

7

What does she call you in bed? Your actual name, I hope. Because you know, “God” could mean just about anybody.

8

I can do both, but I’d rather cook, Bring on the Fixer

9

As others have said, I’d appreciate a fine cook / nutritionist far more.

I own my own house and have a reliable builder / decorator / painter who lives nearby for any jobs that need doing.

10

I’ll take the cook, because I utterly can’t. (I utterly can’t hammer either, but I have a buddy I can recruit/enslave in an emergency.)

But, let’s be honest here. I’d also take Anna Average, with no remarkable skills, as long as we were good companions with interests in common.

11

I love to cook. Stay out of my kitchen and build me something.

12

I am a fair cook but I AM THE FIXER. Since I don’t need two of me, give me the cook. And amazing meatloaf is pretty much required testing.

13

I could live on cereal if my house and yard looked dope.

14

You know who that cook is? ME. So I’ll take the handyman. Between the two of us we’ll be serving up delicious food in a perfectly repaired house.

If I didn’t cook myself, though, definitely the cook, for the reasons others have already articulated.

15

I can do both fairly proficiently, so no need for either - must I? I prefer to maintain myself than some skill crippled invalid

16

I’ll take the fixer. I can cook and I don’t really care about fancy meals anyway - just regular home cooking is what I like. Instead, I’d rather have someone that will change oil, fix things, remodel as I wish, etc. All of that is expensive to hire out. My husband is pretty handy with most things and it has helped out many, many times over the years.

17

I value performance more in other areas of the house.

Cooking is more fun than fixing - bring on Ms. Handy.

Regards,
Shodan

18

Cook for me.
Being male, I’m a good fixer, and watching someone else do the fixing would be disturbing. I’m also a good cook (I come from a restaurant family) but my ego isn’t tied into it as much, and I have no trouble with my wife being better at some dishes (like cakes and bread) than I am.

19

Good in the kitchen would be most valuable for me. I can do house and garage stuff, having to also prepare a meal while doing all that is a drag though.

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I’m a reasonably decent cook and I like cooking, but my house is a bit of a fixer-upper. It’s pretty much all cosmetic stuff – I took care of important stuff like the roof shortly after buying it, and then kind of never got around to doing all the other improvements I would have liked to do. So if Ms. Fixer is going to remodel my kitchen and install an actual built in dishwasher instead of the portable unit I have now and rip out that worn out carpet and replace it with hardwood and fix the wobbly ceiling fans, bring her on. I also kind of like the reversal of the stereotypical gender roles here.