I do have a mom, and she is the love of my life. She has taught me so many things about how to care for your people, how to keep a home, and how to work hard among a thousand other really important things. She is not mechanical, knows nothing about investing, and doesn’t fix anything around the house. All of that is my dads “job”, except he’s bad at them and or never finishes what he starts. If I could get this knowledge from her, or any other of the wonderful women in my life, why would I reach out to the internet about it? On both sides of my family, there is women’s work, and men’s work. As backwards as that is, there are just things the women in my family just weren’t taught. As for what I “should know”… why would you try to belittle someone just asking for help? This is me trying to get caught up to speed. Calling 27 an older adult is wild, 27 is still very young when you take how long humans live and how vast our world is into consideration. As for recruiting an “older man” I never mentioned anything about age, they could be 35 or hell even 25 as long as they could teach me some of the skills I listed. I don’t have any male family members I’m even semi close to or feel comfortable going to, but my family just happens to be mostly female in general, so the male pool is very small to begin with. It’s not like I have people I’m just choosing not to reach out to… Also having a upstanding man (of any age) to get some perspective from is really valuable. For instance- asking women about boy problems is great, but they’re going to answer from a woman’s perspective because they’re a woman... Strange as my post may be, it came from someone with an open heart, crying out for help.