My husband was pretty "domestic" when I met him, but he had a horrible habbit of never doing dishes! I know that doesn't sound like a big deal at all, but, the first time I went to his house there were literally stacks of dishes that moved out onto the table because he didn't have enough room in his sink.

On top of that, he would throw massive parties every weekend, and the stack would get worse and worse. He got to a point where he would only wash what he needed, when he needed it.

When I moved in with him, I decided to wash his dishes once as a surprise for when he got home. It took me SIX hours to do them all! It was disgusting! We went out and bought a tiny dishwasher for $200 and ever since the dishes have been a Hell of a lot more managable.

Now, we live in an apartment with a full sized dishwasher, which we run 24/7 (i swear!) and there always seems to be a dish or two in the sink. But really, that's not so bad. It's the piles that get to me.

I do most of the laundry and tidying, and he cooks. Only because whenever I cook he always "re-does" it! He's Italian, and very set in his cooking ways. Its kind of annoying to always have him criticise every meal I make, so I just let him do it. He enjoys cooking anyway.

Mine is messy, but he cleans when he gets tired of looking at it. Or he has me clean it. I don't mind

He knew how to keep himself alive, clean and feed. Now that we are living together he doesn't do anything lol

We don't live together, but he regularly volunteers to wash my dishes. Sometimes he'll try to make the bed if he sleeps in later than I do. It's never even close to how I'd do it. But at least all the sheets and blankets are off the floor and sort of paralell on the bed with the pillows piled toward one end. I guess it's the thought that counts.

I said he was mostly "domesticated" as he could do everything but cook, which can be annoying sometimes becaues there are days I dont want to cook and I dont want fast food (because he cant cook). But his mother was......I cant finish that. She was a neat freak, so he is a neat freak. And when I met my husband, you almost never knew if he was even living in his apartment because it was so clean and sparce (due to being a batchlor). We share cleaning responsibilities. I dont like the way he does laundry so he doesnt do it, and I HATE vaccuming so those are two chores that we are solely responsible for. Oh and I do all the cooking.

My man is kinda messy. It really bugs me sometimes!

He had never been married and he was sort of domesticated.

hes great at everything except cooking he cant cook to save his life.

i meet my husbanbd in 10th grade of high school....lol so he was just kinda startin to take care of him self

I'm sorry, but i can't help but feel this is painting with a broad brush. It makes it seem that one, women are inherently more cleanly and two that without women all, or most men would only eat frozen food and never bath or clean.

Totally answering for myself... I was relatively domesticated. I'm no neat freak by any stretch of the imagination, but I do my chores, clean laundry, cook and the like.

He was sort of domesticated, lol. I feel like it has gotten worse over the years since he's had me around, and I'm a neat freak.

We met in high school, so figure that. He was clean sometimes and messy other times. He's actually a lot cleaner than I am, though.

Ex-husband, despite having been in the military, was the slobbiest person I've ever known. Since he could hardly hold onto a job, I was usually working, and he either never did any chores or only half-assed did them. So, I was exhausted from work and still had to clean the house and/or clean over what he had done. He could hardly take care of himself, too. Ugh, surprised I stayed so long with him. He could cook, but he cooked like a 'southern bachelor' - everything was fried and smothered in gravy.

From what I understand, Master is an average 'domesticated male'. He's in his mid-40's, married briefly, but spent most of his adult life as a bachelor who had to take care of his own place and upkeep. About the worst I hear out of him about his cleaning is that he hates dusting and he tends to dump his clean clothes in his bed so he can remember to iron them. He's also currently improving his cooking abilities.

He had said that when(!) our situation becomes permanent, he expects everything to be shared equally and nobody is going to be exclusively in charge of keeping house. Although I may need to take over laundry duty so his clothes won't wrinkle so much ... I hate ironing.

Neither of us have ever been married. He's had three other girlfriends, but he's my first everything.

He was pretty domesticated. He has his wild moments though, when he's a bit more animistic.

He's good enough at taking care of himself and his living space and cooking but I prefer doing it for him. (we aren't married or engaged yet and neither one of us ever has been)
I'm pretty traditional in that way.

He's metrosexual. More feminine than me sometimes. I'm kind of the slob in the relationship, lol.

raising your boyfrined sucks!! I love mine he's my best friend but is still not husband material after 5 years. The ambilical cord has not been cut. He lives with me yet he goes down once a months to spend a week or more with his mom. Not only that but his mom never taught him about buying presents for others or how to cook. He didn't even no how to clean messes that envoled in depth cleaning. He tells me he wants to help but then he puts things off and if I meantion them he says I nag or i upset him so he won't do it. He has aspburgers but still LAZY absent minded professor type. He won't put clean dishes away and he won't fold luandry.

"I told you so" is an excellent way to describe his lack of knowledge. I make sugestion and tell him how most people handle life situation like finding a job or going to school. Takes him a year or more for the idea to come around and "Honey I just had an awesome idea." even his mom does that.
I finally had enough and my friends love him so have interveined to save our relationship or make sure that he will move in with them and remian my friend. They are here for 3 weeks rearranging, organizing and cleaning my home while communicating between the two of us to make sure we will continure with the upkeeep,

He's neater than I am! I'm so lucky that he already knew how to do the laundry and hates for dishes to sit in the sink. He could cook but needed lessons in meal planning...but that was a minor issue.

couldn't even cook rice