Can you explain what you mean, because I've honestly never heard a man complain that their wife or girlfriend acts like a child but it's super common to hear women note, usually in resignation, that their husband is "just another one of my children" - it is so common as to be a trope. And yes, women are expected to accept that because they've experienced it so much they've been led to believe that men can't help it and that's just how they are.
Maybe this is different amongst older men using their money to attract much younger women, but it's not something I've ever heard of in other types of relationships.
A huge number of men treat their wives like a mom they are allowed to fuck, relying on her to plan everything in their lives, remember where he put his keys, and otherwise taking care of all the little details in his life the way she would a child. Obviously, not all men are like this. My husband isn't, or I wouldn't be married to him, but it's one of the leading reasons why divorced and widowed women don't want to marry again. If they want a partner, they want him to live at his own place so they don't have to do all that stuff. My very conventional mom had a partner for 22 years after my father died. He lived in his own house and they travelled and stayed over at each other's often - but there was no way she was taking care of another man on that level.
So can you tell me more about what you are talking about because it doesn't make any sense to me?
