In today’s dating culture, many girls are encountering guys who come off as very masculine, tough, and rough around the edges, but act almost identical to children when you truly analyze it (minus crying and dirty diapers). Urban Dictionary defines man child as “a grown man who is very immature, therefore considered a man child.” What started this man-child phenomenon? Why do men want to act like children? It is actually a really funny thing to experience as a woman, but usually the man-child is not going to be your Prince Charming because he simply is not done with his childhood.
The man child always sleeps at least 13 hours a day.
Why is it that these men want to sleep all the time? It’s like they are too lazy and worn out from the hardships of being male to actually wake up and do something with their life. Ladies, if your significant other. would rather sleep in all day than take you out, you are dating an infant and not a real man. A newborn baby requires at least 13 hours of sleep a day, and there is no excuse that a 21 year old male needs that much sleep. He is lazy! You need a hardworking man, and you can’t get one when you are dating a man-child.
They eat eight times a day and get cranky if they don’t eat.
Have you ever babysat a new born baby or even a puppy, and they get really fussy if they don’t eat? If the answer was yes, why do grown men get so cranky just because they are hungry? I understand fully that guys have a faster metabolism and require more calories than most girls in order to stay healthy, but there is no reason they should throw a tantrum if they cannot eat. I dated this guy who would, literally, give me a huge attitude and scream at me because he was “dying of hunger,” even though he had just eaten maybe two hours before. Man-child alert! Dump the guy that can’t control his hunger because it’s a pure sign he only cares about what he wants.
They are super immature.
A classic sign of a man-child is that they are immature. Not talking about throwing things at you or calling you mean names, immature, but just immature about his own emotions and how his actions affect other people. For example, when a baby is small and cannot use language in most situations, they are forced to communicate what they want by crying and throwing tantrums. Babies do not care who or what they disturb to get what they want because they need it. For babies it is for survival, but for grown men, it s immaturity and selfishness. Girls, you need a man that puts you above his selfish needs and wants because that’s what you deserve and if you can get that from a baby, you most definitely can get that from a man-child.
A man child would never consider cleaning.
I was dating a guy (same guy mentioned above -- shocker) and he had his own apartment for some time. I went to visit and there was beer cans everywhere, three to four full trash bags, dirty dishes, and other things that will go untold. A child can't take trash out, so the man child feels the same way. If he does not even care about how disgusting his natural habitat is, and how it appears to you, you are dating a man- child.
He doesn’t own any nice clothing.
Not saying that he cannot avoid nice clothing, but when he only has one dress shirt at 22 years old, he is a man child! Men need nice clothing for their jobs and to impress women but if your “man” only wears baggy jeans and old T-shirts he does not care what he looks like in the eyes of other people because he just thinks he’s so hot.
He will not commit because he would be "giving up too much."
A man child will never commit to a girl because he simply views his babyish needs more important than her adult needs. He might be nice and fun to be around but he will never commit because of reasons like he cant be what you “need”, he’s moving after college graduation, or the classic -- he wants to “do his own thing”.
In conclusion, girls, sometimes it's cute for a guy to do some of these things because you feel like you can baby him, and that is completely normal. But be careful because what you give them attention-wise, they start to expect, and make less and less effort towards you.
You have been warned of the man child, and I wish you luck on your search for a real man, instead of a child stuck in a man’s body.
