“What Is The Most Surprising Thing You Learned When You Started Living With A Man?”: 30 Women Share What Shocked Them
When I first moved in with my partner, he had never owned (or even considered purchasing) a hand towel, an oven mitt, trivets, a spatula, kitchen scissors, more than 2 pieces of silverware, a laundry basket, a chef’s knife that’s actually sharp, or a cutting board big enough to cut anything larger than a lemon. Technically, yes you can survive just fine without any of those things. But my woman brain could not wrap my mind around why you wouldn’t have them when you easily could.
Moving in with someone for the first time teaches you many things about them: their eating habits, their sleeping habits, their cleaning routines (or lack thereof), what they consider to be loud, etc. But if that person is also of the opposite sex, you might be fascinated enough to do a case study in how the other half lives.
Below, we’ve gathered some of the most illuminating (and some slightly disturbing) things women learned from living with men for the first time that they've revealed on Reddit, and I have to say, men never cease to amaze me. From their quirks in the bathroom to the adorably charming ways they surprise their partners, this list is certainly a roller coaster. Be sure to upvote all of the responses that shock you, or that you also only knew from living with a man, and let us know in the comments if you have anything else to add to this list. Then, if you’re interested in hearing from the opposite side after finishing this piece, you can find a Bored Panda article highlighting what men learned from living with women right here!

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Well the first surprise was moving in with my Dad and I was shocked that he never cleaned or cooked. Had a maid for cleaning and ate out for every single one of his meals. And my goodness, men are good at painting the wall with their p**s.
The second surprise was moving in with my SO. Shocked to learn he is incredibly clean, able and willing to cook, and never gets p**s on the wall.
So I guess the thing I learned that would have been surprising to me as a teen is that all men are just as variable as women are. I blame my delay in realizing this on being raised in an all female home and not really having any male role models.
I clean and I wee standing up. It's 1000 times more convenient, you just have to be careful with your aim and, occasionally, clean straight after yourself.
Load More Replies...You'd be surprised what a small piece of lint in your pee hole can do. You can start peeing and it's off in 2 completely different directions. That doesn't mean you can't clean up after yourself though!!
This! I used to say it to my ex all the time. I couldn't (or shouldn't) force him to sit but jeez, why do some men think it's ok to let the toilet covered in p**s? Wiping the toilet would hurt his masculinity too?
Load More Replies...I grew up with brothers,dad and mom. I never knew boys didn't wipe like girls... My husband about cried the first time he walked in on me teaching our oldest how to wipe after peeing. I got an interesting lesson that day and he got some great laughs.. 😂😂
As a man, i need to say, it takes a considerable amount of skill to actually p**s the wall.... The floor... Well in the morning men tend to have a handycap on our aiming skills, but the wall....
We've been living together for over a year now, and I think my girlfriend is still shocked at how often I have an erection.
"We just had sex! Why are you hard again??"
"You were bending over..."
Um yeah, that happens. My wife still gets embarrassed when she catches me eyeing her while she gets something out of the dryer.
Take it as a compliment. But if you stay together 50 years, don't count on such a quick overt response, but in the brain, yessss
This entire posting got by the BP censors? Wow, they must have taken holiday.
Yep, had to start wearing very unsexy PJs otherwise would never get any sleep!!
Unsexy PJ's doesnt make a difference here. Even my trusty plaid flanel Pjs. ETA... I hope it never changes ;-)
Load More Replies...I've been married for close to 20 years and my wife is still shocked by that...
As an Ace, this was what complicated my previous relationships. To the point where I've decided to stay alone because it's not worth it.
Sorry to hear that. It's a shame you didn't have a more understanding partner.
Load More Replies...Ugh, I WISH I could relate, or that my (otherwise amazing) SO would engage in physical intimacy that would satisfy ME even without one! Just because your pee-niss isn't involved doesn't mean you can't be a fantastic lover; you just have to giveadamn enough to actually put forth EFFORT!
I learned that sometimes when a man is very very hungover he will take a sad sitting down shower. Discovered my fiancé sitting on the shower floor like a drowned snuffleupagus
My boyfriend loves doing this after he's been drinking. It's his default positon
People randomly downvoting again. Have my upvote ;)
Load More Replies...I work shift work, 12 hours a day and have a hour long commute. I always sit.
sad sitting down shower??? ajahajajajajajajajja wtf jajajajajajajaj no, this is not a men thing.
Besides my boyfriend, I've lived with plenty of men and what I've learned is that they're all different. Some are slobs, some are fastidious and clean, some are fussy and some have odd habits. It's almost like they're individual people with their own personalities. It's truly bizarre. My BF is way fussier than I am though, I've noticed. I think I'm kind of a slob though, so it makes sense.
"It's almost like they're individual people with their own personalities". Yay, you noticed!
Except y'all use t-paper like you're eating it for breakfast lunch and dinner.
Load More Replies..."It's almost like they're individual people with their own personalities. It's truly bizarre." well...
Men don't like to just talk, they like to fix problems. Men don't pay attention to details, they like to condense to essence. This is why a "how did your day go?" convo lasts twelve seconds. A lot of men would prefer their women bottomless in a man's shirt than in some fancy lingerie that takes ten minutes to figure out how to dismantle. Men do not need a lot of space for stuff, but the space they have is sacred and should not be encroached upon. Leave him his closet and his garage workshelf, and he'll be happy. If he insists on a mancave, best to let him have one and do not mock it. Men are literally mystified by why it would take more than four minutes to get ready to go out. They are even more mystified why women would bother to go through that ritual if you're not going to see anyone you know when you go out. For many, many, many men, words of praise, acknowledging accomplishment and stature, are the most generous acts of love you can provide. Men literally become uncomfortable in their bodies without a sexual release after a couple days. It's not like they just don't think about it if it doesn't happen. If it doesn't happen, then that's all they can think about.
This one is actually a good example of what guys are like in general. Some other posts seem like concerning a particular person only
yeah, this one perfectly encompasses every guy I know and myself
Load More Replies...I'd like a woman cave please, I think everyone would like a room that's just their own but many of us don't have that luxury.
I firmly believe that when living together, everyone in the relationship should have a space of their own. If possible a room, if not some other way to demark it. That space is theirs and theirs alone. They can do anything they want with it, so long as it does not impact the rest of the home.
Load More Replies...Oh boy is this not like my life! I'm a problem solver despite being female and my husband definitely needs more space than I do - he has two workshops, a garage, two sheds and a hobby room.
Yeah, I'm definitely a problem solver. I've started to ask if someone wants problem solving or just listening.
Load More Replies...Virtually none of these describe me. It shocks me that other guys are like this.
As a guy, I agree that this doesn't describe me totally, but it does fit most (more than 60%) of the guys I know.
Load More Replies...It's like someone made a list of all the male stereotypes and just posted them. No man I know fits this. Maybe to some degree, but this list implies that men aren't emotionally intelligent enough to understand the difference between a problem needing to be fixed and someone just needing to vent. It implies that all men have the same turn-ons, that they don't need to be allowed a lot of space, that they don't like to talk, and that they are clueless ("mystified"). Maybe I've just been fortunate to surround myself with well-rounded individuals, but to me this seems like harmful over-generalization and the kind of misinformation that needs to not get perpetuated into future generations.
How often men seem like they have something wrong, but they don't. For the first couple of months that we were living together I was convinced that he already hated living with me because there were so many times that he would zone out and not speak and give short answers.
Turns out that he would just have something on his mind completely unrelated to our relationship.
this is the most important thing to understand. If we want to complain we will do so. If we are quiet it means all is well.
Not always. Sometimes we are quiet because the consequences of speaking aren't worth the emotional fallout.
Load More Replies...Google the nothing box on YouTube. And you'll understand 😂 Men have a nothing box in their brain that they can go to. And literally think about nothing. Made me really jealous 😆
can confirm 👍 my brain is empty most of the time, usually just playing music
Load More Replies...There are many memes about men zoning out while in the presence of their mate. Including gay men. Like, for instance, Nerf. person-her...a33b30.jpg
He’s just thinking about whether if clapping his hands is just hitting himself repeatedly but he likes it.
They have different "rules" about things. A shirt is not dirty unless it's smelly, wet, or has fresh stains on it. They'll wear it again before choosing to wash it. Making the bed every morning is not required, it's a waste of time. "But what if we have company?" "Why would they go look at our bed? If they did, what's wrong with it being unmade? They might *gasp!* know that we sleep there?" It's a lot of practicality and efficiency vs making things look nice and "wasting" time.
So do I - I own the same pair of pants 4 times so people don't know when I switch them anyway.
Load More Replies...Wearing clothes once doesn't make them dirty at all. I hang them outside to air, and wash when they're stained or smell. Or if it's hot weather because then I don't wear my clothes twice. Washing your clothes after one time wears the clothes quicker, is bad for the environment and more expensive
I read a study that said making your bed was actually less hygenic. You are better off just pulling back the covers off the end of the bed and letting everything air out. I now just throw my blanket over the foot of the bed and let it hang there. Best excuse ever for not making the bed ever.
I can't even start my day without making my bed. I even do that at hotels while travelling.
I dunno. Feel most of these apply to certain men and not men in general. I wear new clothes every day, except pants. That *you* can’t smell anything doesn’t mean there’s no smell. Like, does the bathroom smell when you poop or only when others poop? - sorry😊
My DH makes his bed every morning, His sheets get revoltingly dirty and smelly. I leave my bed to air ALL DAY. FFS who goes into another person's bed room when visiting anyway! More important - FLUSH the bloody toilet even if it WAS "only" a pee. Male urine stinks.
They don't need 3 meals a day. They just need a giant meal once or twice.
Or they just eat all day and you wonder why they're not getting overweight. Life is unfair.
Just wait for them to hit 40. 39, thin as a rake. 40, the kid out the Fatboy slim video.
Load More Replies...It depends on the personal preference, i would rather have 4-5 smaller meal in a day.
Give me a full Irish breakfast and I'm good until the evening! Of course I'll still have lunch because I can't let you eat alone...
This might be just specific to my boyfriend, but I was surprised at how much he was willing to compromise. He stopped leaving the toilet seat up, he hates vacuuming but he'll mop, and if I cook he cleans. I was honestly expecting cohabitating to be a real struggle, but it has strengthened our relationship tenfold.
The toilet seat is a point of contention with me. I pee and poop sitting down. He poops sitting down and sometimes pees sitting down. So math dictates that more than 3/4 of the actions meant for a toilet require sitting down….SO WHY IS THE TOILET SEAT UP MORE OFTEN THAN NOT???
My logic is that an open toilet seat is gross. Unless the toilet is in use, the seat PLUS the lid should always remain down.
Load More Replies...Mine is very good with doing his share (more probably as he's a real sweetie about helping me). Like the other post pointed out, men vary.
That's because BP puts something out every day suggesting that we don't. Compromise is the essence of any good relationship.
Pooping time is sacred and a great time to catch up on the news and browse some reddit.
Can be slightly inconvenient when I need the bathroom and he's been in there for 1/2 an hour though.
I don't understand this for men or women. Y'all need some bran in your life. Unless I'm sick, I've never taken a poop that lasted long enough for me to browse the internet. I mean, seriously some people need to see a gastroenterologist.
People have vastly different digestive systems. A friend of mine, a woman, can be in the bathroom for a very long time. She's seen specialists and it's just her.
Load More Replies...Same with me and my husband. Not a luxury everyone can have though, I'm very grateful not to have to share.
Load More Replies...At first glance i thought this was Gordon Ramsay on the picture. While reading the text i wondered why he would model for a toilet picture. Then i saw my mistake ^^
Half hour is weird. Don't force anything, but(t) in and out (out and in?) Like voting. Plan ahead. No muss, no fuss.
Despite his balding hair, he insists on buying voluminizing shampoo.
Babe, that's not going to fix it.
He's just trying to pamper what's left of his hair before it's gone.
Growing up I used to see so many men combing over and trying to disguise their very obvious bald patch. At least now most of them will be open about it. But remembering my father's greasy hair (just around the sides of his bald head) I can confirm that baldies SHOULD be taking care of the hair they do still have..
It's strictly forbidden to take any photos of me which show the bald spot an my head... So, I can relate to this.
face cream won't fix that one wrinkle either but I'm sure it will still get purchased. Men get bald let us believe in something
Most men don't have a garbage can in their bathroom.
Hey guys, if you want to impress your lady friends, put a god damn garbage can in the bathroom! We have stuff we need to put in there sometimes!
Totally true! And once there is one, he will use it most and never change the bag lol
Look, it's either the toilet or the trash, why do we need to make stressful decisions here?
Load More Replies...Those with good plumbing that lets them flush toilet paper, and those who would rather carry everything else to the main garbage can because they're unhappy with the posibility of a bathroom can smelling
Load More Replies...My boyfriend has a garbage can in the bathroom that he never uses. He hangs a plastic grocery bag on the doorknob for his trash; drives me crazy.
It might also stop your long haired friends leaving hairs glued to the shower stall!
Loos in the bath room are horrible, On the other hand it is SO EASY to carry that used tampon out to the bin wherever it is,
So what do women do with menstrual items (pads, tampons)? Not trying to snark, just really baffled.
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He can wiggle his penis.
You know how some people can wiggle their ears, or just the tip of their nose? If we're laying around in bed, he sometimes 'waves' at me.
I didn't know it could move that much on its own.
I think more women should practice making there's wiggle and move...it'll aid in sex and then later in life(or after kids) help keep her from peeing herself while laughing or sneezing or coughing...
Load More Replies...one time I found little stickers of hats and mustaches, so I put on a little puppet show for her. she got a kick out of it.
You should watch the dethclock series, especially the episode with the bass solo. ^^
It's attached to a massive muscle. you can move your "bald man in a rowing boat" too. Maybe as a man I don't feel this being a super surprising thing.
Bald man in a rowing boat, what?!? That's a new one to me. 🤔
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That when men have a cold, the world is ending. They can have a stuffy nose and sore throat and I would think they had cancer. One day I will go through the very intense and painful process of childbirth, and then maybe I will understand how a man feels when they're sick for a day.
Edit: I get it. All of you guys are superman and never complain about being sick unless you're super, dying sick.
My Ex husband said that women are built for pain and if someone can bleed like a sacrificial goat for 5 days solid once a month and still live then let him die with his man flu in peace :D
Quite the opposite for some of us. My wife saved my life on 2 occasions by forcing me to go to the hospital. The last time I was frog marched to hospital, 1hr later I was in theatre after my appendix exploded.
This just proves the point... (Not all) men will ignore something serious like this and have to be 'frogmarched to the hospital' but will act like they're dying when they catch a cold.
Load More Replies...Its this kind of sexist generalizations that CAUSE men to act like this. Men are not 'allowed' to be weak, and are not 'allowed' to be cared for. Men are supposed to be strong, the ones taking care of everyone else. The only time a man is 'allowed' to stop being strong and be taken care of is when he is sick. So yeah, some men will use being sick as a chance to be cared for, for a brief moment. But if loved ones, friends, and family make a guy feel like it is ok for him to have times of weakness, that is ok for him to lay down his burdens, or even cry on your shoulder, when he isn't being told to "Man up" because he is hurting (physically or emotionally), he will be a lot less likely to need to use being sick as an excuse to be cared for.
I think, and this is only my general opinion, that the complaints about "man flu" are more about the difference in how one partner expects to be cared for when they aren't feeling well and how they care for their partner when they aren't feeling well. If you want snuggles and breakfast in bed when you're unwell, that's perfectly fine, but please understand that when we're actively bleeding we get told to suck it up because it "can't be that bad" I feel like it's each gender feeling dismissed for feeling how they do and likely easily resolved with some *gasp* communication between both sides. If you're in a relationship you should probably like each other enough to care how the other person is feeling and treat them in the way they'd prefer to be treated when they aren't feeling well. Mutual respect born from love for one another and all that jazz <3
Load More Replies...Dude... Dont frikking generalize, this is the type of c**p that really pisses me off, you probably never even talked with 0.00001% ( 400 men ) of the male population in the world ( around 4 000 000 000 ) and yet you assume that all men think they're gonna die with a cold.
Either that, or refuse to go to the doctor or take medicine for less than a broken limb 😅
I mean, scientific studies have shown that headcolds really do affect people with low estrogen / high testosterone levels more - worse inflammation, more mucus production, etc. I'm not saying that no man has ever milked it for sympathy or coddling, but there is an actual basis for them really and truly being more miserable than women are with a cold.
Two months after I had our daughter, my husband caught a cold. We were living separately for work, so he had no extra responsibilities, could take sick leave, and his parents were close enough to cook for him. Meaning I was alone with the baby and my two dogs, half.way across the continent. Looked at me and seriously said, "You literally have no idea how awful I'm feeling right now." Lucky for him he was 1000 miles away.
Once, decades ago when I was a wee small thing, my father had what most likely was the man flu. I couldn’t understand why my mother wasn’t concerned that her husband, my father, might be dying. And then I grew up and got married. And now I know. 😀
If all of your socks are the same color and the same style, you don't have to mate them. You can just stick them in a drawer and pull out two random socks without even looking at what you're grabbing.
This made my life sooooo much easier, living with 3 men that have the same size shoes. We now have a big basket full of identical socks!
I'm a male (39) and from high-school through just a few years ago would buy individual pairs of nice socks... Now it's just multiple 20-packs of solid cotton blacks for sport/casual, and as many identical pair of solid black Egyptian cotton for business/formal! Two separate drawers, and no worries if one gets damaged/stained/lost! It's way more satisfying than you'd imagine!
I finally disciovered that my DH piut his socks into his cupboard WITHOUT pairing thm, So i had a great collection of his clean unpaired socks in the laundry and he had a cupboard full. No now he gets them all w***y-nilly and must pair them for himself.!
Mine does this! They are all black, but not the same… so when I pair them I watch to match the seams. But I don’t know why I still bother…
My husband convinced me to go that route (I do have two different colors, but they're in different parts of the drawer). He hates unfolding them, I hate folding them.
That when taking a dump their penis can accidentally touch the rim of the toilet bowl.
I had lived with a couple other dudes before my husband and never knew this was an issue. Then we bought a house and both of the toilets needed to be replaced. He spent a stupid amount of money at Home Depot on these toilets with elongated bowls and I was perplexed and irritated...until he explained why.
Maybe its your toilets dezign lol, happened to me before, and Im no Motumbo lol.
Load More Replies...There seem to be a lot of men with larger than average peni on this thread. You really want to know why men touch the lid? Are you sure? Last chance. We can get an erection pooping because of the pressure on the prostate. Our penis is like a toddler on amphetamines. In general.
This is a design issue more than anything else. I never had the problem at home, but in England I've encountered it more than a few times, and when I toured mainland Europe if was more often than not. You don't have to spend 'a stupid amount of money', just get the right shape (Round bad, oval good!).
Totally true in my case. You have to hold it in place for that not to happen...
My wife learned that I cannot poop and hold a conversation at the same time. If I'm on the porcelain throne, then I demand solitude. I will not answer inanities like whether my blue shirt needs a wash or the kitchen is on fire.
OMG I hate it when people do that... when I'm in the bathroom and the door is closed, don't start a conversation with me.
Right? Same for most people, I think. Need a little concentration time.
When our daughter was three, for about six weeks, she was obsessed--OBSESSED--with watching people poop. My mom found it hysterical because I was the same way. She wanted to watch everybody and didn't understand why it made them uncomfortable because she liked holding conversations while pooping. We'd have to sit on the edge of the tub and have a chat. Thank the good Lord above she likes pooping with the door closed now.
Something I've noticed since moving in with my SO is how much I enjoy having someone to help me out with stuff.
I've always had kind of bad roommates who tend to not do their fair share of the work (to be fair, I'm a neat freak, so my standards are definitely set higher than the average person's). My SO, though, is always willing to help me out with anything I ask.
I also love having a perpetually available adventure buddy. Even if I just want to go to the grocery store, he's always willing to come with me.
I would not choose any other partner than the one I have. Best friend ever!!!
My husband does absolutely nothing unless specifically asked (because, maybe I wanted it that way). Imagine my shock when I got up this morning and the Air Fryer had been put back in the pantry. I still had to tell him the garbage needed to go out. Big eyes, "it does?" Yeah, have many times do you think you can just keep mashing down until it's too full? Know damn well he was hoping he could make it last until Tuesday when he has to go back to work & I'd just do it myself.
She says ask, not tell. If he's willing to help when asked the worst it might mean is that he doesn't notice when something needs doing. This doesn't even say that though.
Load More Replies...Men are always hungry. They can check the fridge many times during evening to check if there is something tasty and ready to be grabbed. Also, if recipe says that it serves 4, it actually means that it serves 4 women or 1 man.
That's true about the portions: I do the shopping - when it says serves 4 I halve it (uh-oh, better get two) and family size if it's lasagna....
That´s because companies intentionally write ridiculously small portion sizes on their packages so the nutrients, fats, calories etc. look nicer when shown as "per portion"
Load More Replies...A lot of the time, serving sizes are ridiculously small to make the calories and carbs seem low.
So true. Also us men often love their being more due to possibly having leftovers later on during the day or even a midnight snack. Some food even tastes better after it has sat longer like that, for example Chili and tacos when reheating it up.
I do this, i may not find anithing on the 1st time, but i end up repeating it a few more Times during the day or night, the funny thing is that i still wont find anything interesting...
I love how the check the fridge again later - like we've snuck out and filled it with tasty treats while they weren't looking. And yeah - if it say serves 4, I can kiss leftovers goodbye.
I can roll over, wake my boyfriend out of a deep sleep, wiggles my eyebrows and say " you horny?" We do the sexy times, He is happy, I am happy, he goes back to sleep, I take shower and do whatever.
Edit: we actually talked about it. I got horny one night and didnt wanna wake him up so I just ignored it and went back to sleep. Told him about it the next morning and he said I should have woke him up, he is always ready. Every time I have done this he has never said no. As we are still youngish, both of us around 30ish, I guess as we get older it'll start to diminish.
Edit again: clarified some things. He is the type that usually can fall back to sleep, he really doesn't mind. I wouldn't blue ball him.
Also this is my highest comment.
There are jealous women, too...not all men are the same in that regard either.
Load More Replies...Do not think sex diminishes or gets worse with age. Not necessarily so. The longer you are with someone, the more everyone knows how to get where they're going.
why after 6 months with someone I don´t even want to touch them? :(
Load More Replies...There's nothing more spontaneous than a semi awake love making at 2:30am, and falling right back to sleep with a smile
My ex would wake me for sex. Sleep deprivation torture was his speciality.
How fun it would be to be able to make spontaneous plans. How wonderful to have someone to snuggle with before you fall asleep. How much more intimate it is to share the details of your day in person than over text. How hard it would be when he moved out.
My SO and I both have full time jobs. I often work 12:00-22:00 but he works morning to early afternoon. Often when I get home from work I've got the most amazing dinner and a hot bath waiting for me. When we get random days off together we go mountain biking, or swimming, or stargazing. It's so comforting having someone like that there for you. We've been together for three years now :)
That changes over time. After half a century, sharing some of your insulin supply is romantic....
Sharing a life saving drug is the definition of a romantic gesture. Shouldn't be necessary but it is romantic..
Load More Replies...What I miss the most about my ex. He was so thoughtful and didn’t let me lift a finger. Almost too much honestly. I hope he finds someone who will return that effort to him. And that he gets the mental health help he desperately needs.
He wanted to get one of those little rugs that go around the toilet so he could "miss". Evidently he believed those rugs exist to be peed on.
Since I don't lift the seat to pee, I pointed out to my husband that this was all him & he needed to start wiping the rim after he peed. Hey, I do 98% of the housework, shopping & cooking. You can wipe up your own pee.
Ew. I do hope it was possible to correct his education on this point.
In days gone by, when bathroom carpets were a normal thing, these existed for that very purpose. They could be taken up and washed whereas the carpet could not. In this respect he is right, he may be remembering something from childhood. Thankfully vinyl flooring is now standard and mopping and wipes ensure cleanliness..
Just pee outside like a normal human and problem solved. Or sit down and dip the tip
Socks, everywhere socks.
I have 2 daughters, a small laundry basket full of unmatched socks, and 2 daughters who tell me they can never find socks to wear.
Load More Replies...Just get a cat that likes to drag them under the selves to build nests and this problem will be gone
I have 2 daughters. There literally are socks in my kitchen floor and in my car floor right now.
Mine's really good about that. I asked him once when we first started living together (15 years ago) to please roll his socks together and put in the hamper. Never had to ask again. Also - I've never once had a sock go missing.
Bouche got two pairs of socks all for herself this year for Christmas. She won't touch them. She only kills mine.
Shaving is a sacred ritual. My husband closes the bathroom door, and takes his time shaving, then he comes out flawless.
I think this is fair enough considering how much damage they could do to their face if they get distracted.
Only if you use the old school razors. I have used since I was a teen a Norelco shaver with the 3 heads, and upgrade every few years to a better one. No risk, easy to use, etc
Load More Replies...I despise shaving. The only reason I do it is I hate facial hair more. And yes, if I'm going to be dragging a sharpened piece of steel over my face and throat I want privacy and time to do it correctly.
I haven't shaved with a razor for around 20 years (probably more). It's hassle, a chore, a burden on my time... Nope, grab the clippers, buzz buzz, job done!
If you shave old school, it is required. Mug, brush, straight razor. The closest shave possible.
Yea, i might shave once every month, normaly i don't care about my beard, untill i fell that Im on a FBI watch list.....
That was one thing my ex hated being interrupted on. I think he used clippers but, same thing.
My husband will turn on the bedroom a/c to its highest setting and then pile three heavy blankets on top of himself. Then complain that it's too hot. Every. Single. Summer. Night.
Aha is your husband one of our hedgehog alien troop in disguise? We all have that trait. Hedgehogs love to snuggle in big heavy blankets.
I'm the same way. It's because I like the weight of the blankets. I don't understand how people sleep without blankets or use just a sheet. I'd almost rather not sleep. I need a sheet, a blanket and comforter. I usually do with just the sheet and comforter in the summer with my a/c on high.
That was me! My husband could sleep barea$$ naked in the middle of an Idaho winter, still complain he was too hot.
Makes sense to me. If you get too hot, you can pull off the blanket. If you get to hot because the AC is turned down low, you have no escape. The same is true for AC in the office.
They gossip just as much as women do.
Why yes i do, i love a good gossip and a bit of drama ( as long as its not close to me ).
Am male, what my wife said most surprised her/baffles her is my bladder. When I go to bed, if I need to pee, I will. If I don't, I won't. And then I'll sleep the night with nary a stir. And might not pee for a few hours after I get up. On the flip side, she pees as part of her going to bed routine, otherwise she'll have to get up in the middle of the night to pee. She doesn't understand how I can go 12+ hours without peeing.
Lucky you! Although I'm over 40 so that might have something to do with it...
I don't need to pee as often as I do. But I really really hate getting UTIs so I err on the side of caution.
I'm 89 yrs old and never have to pee in the middle of the night. Pee just before bed does it for me.
Load More Replies...Somehow I feel that this has something to do with the fact that some women pee just to be sure, which they shouldn't do because the bladder gets smaller because of it. Going to bed, pee first. Going somewhere, let's pee first. I have to actively remind myself that I don't need to go to the bathroom every chance I get. However, I'm still blissfully ignorant of what happens when you sneeze as you get older.
My cats can hold it for days, looking forlornly out the window at the horrible weather.
My doggo would just pee on the sofa and give me a disgusted stare if I won’t let her outside in that freaking hurricane
Load More Replies...As a female, women have smaller bladders, that is why we're more prone to uti than males. Even my father as one of few men is aware of different size in bladders for genders.
My girlfriend made me realize how much I play with my balls during the day.
Nop, you have no idea about the fetishes there are lol, but that would fall in to " CBT " and dude would probably like it lol
Load More Replies...Sitting on the sofa, watching TV, one of my hands is usually playing with my balls, like those anti stress chines balls. It's a comfort thing, nothing sexual
Sir, did you attend public school? All day, boys fidgeting with their nether regions, shifting, scratching, thumping each other there, kicking each other there, etc.
For what it's worth, I play with my own boobs a lot without even realizing it. I've got big boobs so they're always just there, lol. So I think girls do a version of this, too.
Why??? I mean, it get's rather... humid... down there. I can only think of one worse place...
So much nakedness.
I always tell him he's going to put a hole in the wall with that thing just out in the open like that.
My SO and I spend all home time naked. It’s comfy. And nudey snugs are the best.
FedEx and ups know what I look like in my birthday suit! Nothing like making eye contact
I moved in with a bunch of male roommates. Friends with penises... Please get a garbage can WITH A LID. I can smell what you do in your personal time.
Edit needed, it seems: I can smell that you just played whack-a-mole. It's...zesty.
That he can sit in front the computer/video games from morning 'til it's dark out without once getting up to pee, make food or turn on the bloody lights.
Yea, i got a mental timer formyself, 2h in front of the PC in the morning 2 in the afternoon, i avoid spending more.
Haha, I do this I'm in my mid-forties... Having said that, it's also true of my dad (in his 70s) when he watches a football game.
Load More Replies...Aww I miss minecraft, I should boot up one of our servers and visit my bases!!
Cleaning and disciplining the kids, religious views, political views.... They all come out seemingly unexpected. Boyfriends taking a s**t and suddenly announces they think they might vote for Trump and your just doing the dishes wondering where you went wrong in life.
When he takes dirty dishes off the table, he carries them to the sink one by one. However, if we go to the supermarket and bring home 3 boxes of baby diapers and 5 bags of groceries, he will carry them all at once even if he breaks his back.
Why the massive bucket of loose change???
Put it in a savings pot and then buy something silly (i.e. not useful as such) and have fun!
Because when the jar is full, I can take it to the bank and exchange it for bills.
I never have change to deal with (well, almost never) because I always use my credit card. The secret is to pay your CC bill at the end of the month, never carry a balance.
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There is a *lot* of shedding of body hair. I thought my head shed a lot but apparently his legs and chest and wherever else all these small dark hairs are coming from shed at least as much.
Each time I clean my bathroom I get the impression I live with a hairy old dog. Then I realize I am the hairy old dog.
I actually have an old hairy doggo :) but it doesn’t shed, which leaves me screaming at the sheer mass of fallen-out hair from my own head:(
Load More Replies...That's true for men that have a lot of body hair. Experienced that before and especially the toilet was full of them after a day.
Might be the reason why our marriage has been going strong for 25 years now... the pros of being a man with alpecia universalis...
I learned that my husband's guts are very talkative, to the point where it actually seems like they wait for the best moment to put their two cents in. This was completely new to me, because, if my guts are being loud, I'm already on the toilet praying for my guts to just vacate themselves and stop with the twisty-innards pain. For him, it's just normal, and he doesn't even feel what I've heard 25% of the time. Although, they do increase their talkativeness and volume according to their desire to vacate. I actually have to tell him to go use the bathroom sometimes, because of how insistent they're getting with their "Oooourrrrgghhhhuuugggooooob" noises and he wants to finish watching a video on his computer first.
My digestive tract has its own orchestra and plays most loudly after a visit to the bathroom.
Sometimes is just something we ate that is taking time diguesting/settling in our stomachs or even it could just be that we are hungry again and/or waited too long to eat something. Not always bathroom related like that.
Guys don't care about shampoo/conditioner most of the time, they buy 2-1s or use soap in their hair :(
Dude, if they made a body wash / rim cleaner / car shampoo / window cleaner all in One i would buy it and use it.
CAR SHAMPOO??? WINDOW CLEANER?? Hedgehog here hath never seen such monstrosities combined with the words ‘body wash’
Load More Replies...I use 3/1 since having that many products makes it harder to shower, and most shampoo/conditioner makes my hair SUPER greasy…
That they can be really clean and a**l about keeping the place tidy and in certain order. They're not all slobs like my father and brothers.
Lived with a guy roommate once (just a roommate) who like to burp and actually say the words "burp", "belch", or "ralph" *while* burping. I dunno...maybe I'm a weird woman, but it always made me giggle.
Ha ha, I also had a friend like that, he also said ‘oats’ when he burped, now I do to (just can’t help it!)
That you don't really know someone until you live with them. My ex used to turn up the heating way too high, get too hot, open the window and keep the heating on. When I asked him why he would do this, he shrugged and said "I got hot." He also used to wipe his boogers on the side of our bed and the side of our sofa. I'm not normally someone to see red, but that was f*****g gross. He was 23 for god sakes! EDIT: Spelling! & Thanks for all the upvotes :D Nice to know that relationship was good for something (heheh)...
Picking a booger is a great way to end a conversation you don't want to be in.....
From my few experiences living with guys, they have a WAY higher tolerance of the house being a total disaster. No food in the fridge? They'll just order take out every night. Dishes piled up in the sink? Just use a napkin as a plate. Garbage overflowing? Start a garbage pile next to the garbage can. They just don't care.
My ex was nothing like this. He always cooked and cleaned. Now that I’m single, I do some of the above.
They just don't seem to have any idea about when something in the house needs doing without being told. I hate having to ask my other half to do very basic stuff like empty the bin or put their dishes in the dishwasher (I thought plates littering the kitchen work tops would be a thing of the past when we got a dishwasher...how wrong I was). When I ask, I get huffy sighs, or a very teenage-like 'fiiiiine'. If the bin is spilling over on to the floor, you have got to realise it needs emptying right? .... right?
The worst part is when these kind of habits carryover into the workplace.
So...probably not a very popular opinion, but if you see that it's overflowing, you can empty it as well?
It gets frustrating to be the one who does it every time, or getting home from work to find a mess when your other half has been home all day.
Load More Replies...They hate spiders too.
I feel a bit uncomfortable when the bigger ones are around. But I still move them carefully outside if needed. And I love jumping spiders. Cute little bastards.
Spiders are cute. Cockroaches… well, the only acceptable roach around here is Headless Roach :D
Bugs in general yes, i still march in to danger in order to kill a " daddy long legs " ( i think thats the name ) or a cocoroach, but yes i really don't like them.
Ever since I watched a cartoon movie about Charlotte the spider when I was much younger now I won't kill a spider. Google that movie, it might change your attitude.😘
Load More Replies...Upvoted because Spiders are the worst thing in existence. I refuse to kill them and shout at my SO when she does, but I absolutely cannot stand them. I had counselling when I was younger, I was that bad... It didn't work.
Saw a centipede wrap itself around a guys ankle. Sent him to the hospital for a couple of days. Yes, they do get that big in the jungle.
So so funny. Both hubby and son in law are scared of spiders, so they call me! I used to assure my children that the spider I had thrown out of the door just had a sprained ankle, and was otherwise unharmed.
I can tell from my husband’s yelp if it’s a spider vs. a centipede now …
That they're generally less messy than I am. Clothes can't be left on the floor for longer than 12 hours, dishes cant be dirty in the sink for longer than 24. And laundry gets done every day, every day!!!
My clothes don't touch the floor, they go in the hamper and dishes go straight in the dishwasher, sink is always empty.
Never leave my clothes on the floor, and Im the type of guy that only dusts when i can wright my name on the furniture.
My boyfriend used BLANKETS as curtains before living with me. I had to proclaim that we would be using actual curtains upon moving in together. He tried to get out of that by grumbling that curtains were an unnecessary expense 😐
I've seen this with some people...men and women...living very badly. They will tack sheets up to the windows as curtains. They sometimes don't even try to make it look nice. I mean, hey if you're broke you do what you can. But that doesn't excuse living like a scumbag. A girl I worked with literally had a bedsheet haphazardly tacked to the window pane, it was falling on one side. It looked so ghetto. Her whole house was a mess so I think there was depression going on there. You can fold sheets and pin them up in a nice way. I mean they aren't that different from some curtains. But you can get blackout curtains, lots of colors, for like 10 dollars on amazon.
Depends on what for, blackout curtains never truly work well for those of us who work nights, it's better to take black sheets and tack them up and completely seal every speck of light.
miniblinds and black sheets, now were talking snoozy time
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I go to bed and, when I wake up and head to my desk to work (I work from home), his jeans/pants, socks and shoes are on the floor. Why?! For reasons unbeknownst to me, after I go to bed, he strips down and leaves his clothes in the living room. If I don't pick up after him each morning, by the end of the week we have a small mountain of clothes in the corner.
My ex would start taking off clothes as he came in the front door. I did not pick up after him. When he started running out of things to wear he started putting his clothes in with the dirty laundry. I, a sahm, did the laundry and refused to wash anything not in the dirty laundry.
That's not a stain from glue, lotion, or a hair product: that's semen.
Pockets must be emptied of all spare change and small pieces of garbage immediately after coming in the door, and deposited in random caches around the house.
This was also when I found out how awesome it is to wear his shirts, and have someone to tell me my cooking is good.
Some men prefer having the seat and lid down. I'd always been a lid up kind of slob, and I was the one that had to change.
Yeah, toilets aerosolize whatever is in them when they flush. Between that and pets, an open toilet lid is just an invitation for whatever bacteria, viruses, or other infections go in to be spread around your house. Open the lid, do your thing, close the lid, flush.
spoiler alert - they were already there before you sat down...
Load More Replies...I learned that my ex was not the man for me. lol... The first time I lived with a guy he immediately stopped working, even though I was supposed to be his room mate (as in help him afford a place because he was temporarily homeless and I was willing to change my living situation to help out because that's what a supportive girlfriend does). He never cleaned the bathroom, or really anything, intentionally left dishes filthy enough they couldn't be cleaned by the dishwasher, never cleaned the coffee pot, felt that my regular sized wastebasket in the kitchen was too bothersome because it required the effort to empty it every 2-3 days (which I did myself, not him) he got rid of my trash can and put in a full sized garbage can (like the kind people keep outside, that you could fit a person or 2 in) and then refused to empty it. I couldn't see over it to carry it down the stairs from my condo as I'm only 5 ft 1. He never cleaned the bathroom, would use all the toilet paper, and never buy any or tell me when he used my last square of it (even though I let him use my car and would be stranded several miles from the nearest town/store and have none for an entire evening). Couldn't be bothered to cook anything outside of a microwave and required me to buy him copious amounts of c**p. Had a trash can next to the couch (15ft from his giant garbage can in the kitchen) because throwing away the 2 liter of mountain dew he laid down with was too much of a hassle. I also learned that I could loath more passionately than I ever realized... Glad he's no longer a thorn in my side.
They love using my beauty supplies. Body scrubs, lotions, facial masks, anti-aging cream all tend to be popular items.
Please normalize this! Stop judging and joking about men who use cosmetics, or like "girly" stuff. WTF is girly stuff anyways? And we want them to look good, smell good, have nice skin, hair, nails etc - these need cosmetics and taking care of yourself! Sheesh!
How much work it would be. Boyfriend grew up with a mother that has done just about anything and everything for him. I cook, I clean, I wash, I fold: almost everything. He doesn't realize that when he offers to do the dishes, it means everything: pots, pans, dishes, utensils. He just does his plate and cup and that's it. Also, he's very wasteful. Two sheets of paper towels to dry hands then another two sheets to make sure they're extra dry, instead of using the hand towel because "germs". Uses toilet paper to dry his mouth after brushing teeth instead of a towel. I feel that it may just be differences in our culture and how we were raised. I, being Hispanic, try to save as much as possible and was raised to not be so wasteful because we had so little. Him on the other hand, was given everything he ever wanted since he came from a well-to-do family. It's been super difficult to communicate with him because I tend to bottle things up (working on it) and then explode about WHY DO YOU USE SO MANY DAMN PAPER TOWELS?! He's gotten better and I've gotten a little better but *sigh* there's still a lot of work to be done.
My lotion runs out surprisingly faster. He must be sucking the moisture from my skin.
Exactly it's really irritating. People are people. Not their gender.
Load More Replies...I grew up with a lots of boys. Here is something I noticed. Say a baseball is hurtling towards him. The first thing he covers up is not his head on his shoulders.
Gee, you move in with someone and it's not what you expected. Shock, horror./s/ Also, BP, can we end the gender-centric posts? It's really 1. boring and 2. just clickbait. I only clicked to say that...
You know you can make your own articles about whatever you want right?
Load More Replies...The one about using blankets as curtains isn't even in there, but I've done that when I haven't had curtains readily available, and even when I've gotten curtains I've waited a long time before bothering to use them because I'm lazy, lol.
This is Great Australian Adjective stupid. I lived all my life (before marriage) with a father! So about the only thing I learned about men was that not all of them are as selfish as my father.
The only one of these that's been consistent with all the guys I've lived with as an adult is socks and I know my dad was always fastidious about laundry and annoyed at the bras mom took off and left hanging random places. *And* half of these I fit the guy description while my partner doesn't. I call bulls hit on the whole thing.
I couldn't get through this. People are different. Other than silly stuff like "how much he plays with his balls" (and it's not like there is a universal time allotment on that either) this was mostly just ridiculous amounts of gender stereotyping. BP did a similar post about women a while back. It was just as irritating as this one.
Exactly it's really irritating. People are people. Not their gender.
Load More Replies...I grew up with a lots of boys. Here is something I noticed. Say a baseball is hurtling towards him. The first thing he covers up is not his head on his shoulders.
Gee, you move in with someone and it's not what you expected. Shock, horror./s/ Also, BP, can we end the gender-centric posts? It's really 1. boring and 2. just clickbait. I only clicked to say that...
You know you can make your own articles about whatever you want right?
Load More Replies...The one about using blankets as curtains isn't even in there, but I've done that when I haven't had curtains readily available, and even when I've gotten curtains I've waited a long time before bothering to use them because I'm lazy, lol.
This is Great Australian Adjective stupid. I lived all my life (before marriage) with a father! So about the only thing I learned about men was that not all of them are as selfish as my father.
The only one of these that's been consistent with all the guys I've lived with as an adult is socks and I know my dad was always fastidious about laundry and annoyed at the bras mom took off and left hanging random places. *And* half of these I fit the guy description while my partner doesn't. I call bulls hit on the whole thing.
I couldn't get through this. People are different. Other than silly stuff like "how much he plays with his balls" (and it's not like there is a universal time allotment on that either) this was mostly just ridiculous amounts of gender stereotyping. BP did a similar post about women a while back. It was just as irritating as this one.
