"Why am I trying to make another person rely on me for food? Why am I sacrificing big swathes of time — which (in theory!) could be given over to some other kind of labor, something more meaningful or creative or at the very least remunerative — to shopping for and cooking good meals? It has to do with loving to cook and eat, sure, but mostly for me at least it has to do with control. I was talking to a woman recently, okay it was Amy Sohn, whose husband does all the cooking for their family, and I had the initial response of “Wow, that sounds great, what a dream,” but then I realized that my honest response is that I would never want to be with someone who could cook at all, because then I wouldn’t be in charge of cooking."
— —Emily, who is these days rather terrifyingly at the very top of her game.
5:47pm |
URL: http://choiresicha.com/post/266770311/why-am-i-trying-to-make-another-person-rely-on-me
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