Oh and the laundry thing? That's completely normal. My dad said back in the 70s when he was in college he had to teach all the kids in his dorm how to do laundry--he said none of the kids knew how to do laundry. And my mom said she never learned how to cook until she got married.

So when I hit my teens, my parents sat down and showed me how to do laundry and my mom invited me to help her cook just to learn the basics.

So, many 20 somethings don't know how to do their laundry, and some have never learned to cook. Her girlfriend simply may not know how to do her own laundry, and like me, she may be so new to cooking that all her food turns out crap without help from Mom.