| Guys who can't or won't fix things around the house
Posted: 7/8/2008 11:32:57 AM | | Not all men are handymen, electricians or plumbers. You can look for those types to date or appreciate the man for what he can do and use the yellow pages or take some courses yourself at Home Depot. | |
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| Guys who can't or won't fix things around the house
Posted: 7/8/2008 11:56:43 AM | Then, somewhere along the way, men became more feminized...and the line was crossed It used to be that these things were passed down from father to son. Now a days, that's not done and so...most boys never learn how to fix even basic things. In those days women stayed in the home cooking the meals & doing the laundry...now both genders have to do it, that includes learning to fix some of their own stuff.
Actually, quite true cooldude. Couldn't we also say that "somewhere along the way, women have become more masculinized.. and the line was crossed"?
Women "used" to stay home, cook meals, do housework, raise the kids.. and men "used" to go to work, come home and do yardwork and fix the things on her "honey-do" list... yeah, great, if you were living 50 years ago... 
Now, well... I've dated several women (*not* "all") that would have had a hard time making Mac & Cheese from a box for dinner, hated housework ...
I remember one being *amazed* when I folded her laundry - after spilling sauce on my jeans at the restaurant and deciding to wash them at her place while spending the night  , and finding the dryer full of clothes - she *lived* out of a laundry basket of wrinkled clothes in the living room. ... OH, WAIT... I folded her laundry and cooked for her, I've been "feminized"!!!!... I'll have to remember never to help a woman with that stuff!!! 
... interesting how I don't think I'd hear women complaining about me folding her laundry or cooking her meals - but god forbid women should have to learn to hang a painting by themselves? Is that what we're saying here?  | |
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| Guys who can't or won't fix things around the house
Posted: 7/18/2008 10:50:49 AM | | If you are so mentally, or physically, disabled that you can't hang a picture by yourself, you should not be dating. More than likely, you want a guy to: repair your roof, rebuild you car's engine, remodel your den, build you a garage, etc, in return for you giving him a bit of occasional nookie...and the guys you date figure you are asking too much, or giving too little. Why does dating you obligate a guy to be your unpaid-or lowly paid-contractor/mechanic/civil engineer? | |
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| Guys who can't or won't fix things around the house
Posted: 7/18/2008 10:57:00 AM | 
Hi there! I could sure use some help putting shelves up in my closet- I can't find the stud in the wall and apparently the expanders I used didn't expand big enough- because after I got them screwed in, put up and loaded- the shelves fell right off the wall.
I could use a handyman- and my brother in law is about tired of helping me.  | |
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| Guys who can't or won't fix things around the house
Posted: 7/18/2008 2:51:32 PM | o i love this
anyone need a handyman? i really slacked when married and did things for me, but when she wasnt there i realized how much i missed doin things around the house for her. after all she was always doin little things for ME.
Too little to late now, but never too late for a new start | |
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| Guys who can't or won't fix things around the house
Posted: 7/18/2008 3:44:42 PM |
Hi there! I could sure use some help putting shelves up in my closet- I can't find the stud in the wall and apparently the expanders I used didn't expand big enough- because after I got them screwed in, put up and loaded- the shelves fell right off the wall.
I could use a handyman- and my brother in law is about tired of helping me.
Hmm, you need a stud for some good screwing - and your last screwing was so good the shelves fell off the wall? ... and your brother in law is tired? Does your sister know?
.. I just couldn't resist. | |
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| Guys who can't or won't fix things around the house
Posted: 7/28/2008 5:23:37 AM | Beautyinnature
You must be going with the wrong guys. On my farm I have to know how to fix everything, and being a man I am basically pretty dumb so after buying dinner for one lady and having an enjoyable time I spent my spare time fixing everything broken in her house from the comode that didn't flush to installing a new kitchen sink. You know the damsel in distress syndrome. Once I was through she quit answering calls or emails so I took the hint and quit trying for contact.
Eventhough I had that experience when a lady calls with a problem I am happy to help. I can't be the only man out there who is dumb enough to keep falling for this syndrome so keep looking. At least fix him dinner or do something nice for him before you kick him to the curb so he will feel like he got something out of the brief relationship. | |
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| Guys who can't or won't fix things around the house
Posted: 9/13/2008 3:35:07 PM | i do now but i would never fix things when my wife needed them done and she was patient. I dont know why I can find all the time in the world to fix the things she wanted aor needed done NOW. time is strange isnt it?
simple things like hangin a shelf for her laundry room
or fixing her bike
or changing the oil in her car.
simple. never asked for much.
i think we should re evaluate why we do things the way we do. some say czu women nag. Mine never nagged. she just shut up after the 2nd time. I wish she hadnt now. But its too late. | |
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| Guys who can't or won't fix things around the house
Posted: 9/13/2008 4:26:42 PM | I dont mind helping out around the house and I do it myself ... do my own laundry, fix my own meals, mow the yard , take out the trash, etc, but home construction and other profession type work at home... well if I can't do it I'm going to be honest and say to the person I can't do this.. but if you have computer problems or simple electronic problems call me  | |
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| Guys who can't or won't fix things around the house
Posted: 9/13/2008 4:35:42 PM |
I got real dependent on my ex husband because he was such a great fixer around the house
Mistake number 1.
but ever since my divorce, every man I've met is only intersted in sex and wont' or can't fix things or even hang a picture for me.
Mistake number 2.
The OP already abandoned ship long ago...guess she couldn't take the criticism...
Still, all I could say is, you made the mistake of becoming dependent on someone other than YOU. Big mistake. Then when you divorced, assuming you didn't have a man land in your lap the next day, that shoulda given you enough time to come to terms with learning how to do things yourself...you didn't. Mistake number 2 there.
Do women have pianos tied to their asses or what?
Aside from car repair, there is little I can't do for myself around the house as needed. If a professional is required, I call one, 'cause I ain't stupid enough to try and do it myself and see the cost to fix MY mistake once then do it right the next time skyrocket. Like paying twice for the same repair. But other things, common things (like hanging a friggin' frame), yea, I can manage that myself. I don't require people to do for me what I should damn well be able to do for myself.
Cooking. Cleaning. Sewing (yes, I sew). Laundry. Light maintenance. Dishes. Painting. Mowing. Shovelling. Raking. And so on.
If you don't know how to perform the most basic tasks, you have bigger issues. Rely on YOU, not someone else. It's just easier that way.
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