All these kinds of dialogue indicate that Women in Love is a polyphonic novel, in which a diversity of consciousnesses and voices entwist with each other.
Only when we can make sure that being single is potentially as secure, warm and fulfilling as being in a couple will we know that people are choosing to pair up for the right reasons.
So he is an excellent cook and I guess when you get in a relationship with someone, you have to kind of 'up the ante' a bit so he was a really good cook and I needed to impress him with my skills!
Whether those others were parents, priests, friends or bureaucrats, their motive was largely the same: they thought they knew what it took to pair people off better than those people knew themselves.
Work, commuting, romance or kids take up so much time and energy that it is so much easier to crash on your couch and lose yourself in mindless activities.