It's rather up to the couple to decide how to divvy up the household labor. If the woman wants to do all the cooking (and can) and the man wants her to, then it's easy. Or if the man wants to do all the cooking and that's okay with the woman, that's cool too. It's when neither really want to cook or both really want to cook that they might have to...

Hold on to your hats, ladies and gents...

DISCUSS IT WITH EACH OTHER And come to an arrangement they both can live with.

If this guy was a lousy cook, as he admitted, it requires a further question (viz., does your girlfriend MIND doing all the cooking?) to determine if he's an MCP.

If she doesn't mind, or indeed positively relishes in cooking, as some people do (believe it or not!) then it's not a case of an MCP and his enslaved woman, but rather of a wise division of labor (at least vis-a-vis cooking).

How quick we are to judge!

That said, I enjoy doing most of the cooking and do a fairly good job of it most of the time (I got my worst experimentation out of the way whilst in college!).

But my wife does the bills cos it's a job I can't stand (and she doesn't hate nearly as much as I do).

It's all a give-and-take, ain't it?

Alex