Depends on how you'd take advice from single (never married, or divorced) people, since I'm guessing most of us are just as stupid as your "mentor".

And I was told that men are like tile floors; lay them right the first time and you can walk on them forever.

The old outdated :lady in the parlor, chef in the kitchen, whore in the bedroom...glad we are not in that era anymore...

it might still apply to many of that generation, but expanded as we got older and wiser to being a good conversationalist, an independent thinker, kind to others, hard working, financially adept, and a sense of humor...the same things for a man or woman...

"Choose a woman to marry"? What, did you get them out of catalogs back then?

I’m not surprised at that remark...especially from the 70s. The advice I gave to my sons, was to make sure you would choose to be friends with your lover, even were there no sexual attraction, to ask if you would choose her to be a friend. Once the initial passion of wanting each other’s bodies day and night wears off, if there is a mutual respect and friendship, then the relationship will last. I know many marriages which have lasted, despite the lack of sex in later years. As far as cooking is concerned, it is far more common to find the male partner does most of the cooking amongst the younger generation than the other way round. Both my sons liked to cook for their partners.

Preferably at the same time

as if someone from the navy would know a damn thing about life.