Big-budget Hollywood movies and polished Instagram feeds might give you the impression that romantic relationships have to be perfect and only exist with cute couples. Well, they can't. And when you let go of the popular obsession with unachievable idealistic love, impossible relationship advice to you allow room for your perfectly imperfect long term relationship to blossom.
To highlight this point, Bored Panda has made some cute drawings to illustrate the differences between what's usually expected of romantic moments and their true forms. From snacking in bed to sleeping poses and beyond, the outcome of your attempt to create something special doesn't matter, it's what you make of it that does. And there's no better person to make the best of the mundane than your significant other. Scroll down to check out the expectations vs reality fun comics and fire up our other original funny comics series once you're done (21 Ways Your Life Changes From Your 20s To Your 30s, 20 Brutally Honest Comics That Show How Your Life Changes After Having Kids).
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Of course! What better present than a Bored Panda present ;)
Load More Replies...Exactly, men should not get a prize for everyday mundane household work that needs to be done, just do it and stfu. There's no gold star for putting some plates in a dishwasher.
Load More Replies...To all single guys, this is the truth. They'll appreciate it more if you help them with the chores.
I don’t agree with this. A person who uses dishes doing dishes is an expectation and reality. I’d rather have the flowers and we both do dishes when necessary.
You’d rather your boyfriend give you the “gift” of cleaning up after himself like a normal person? That’s hardly a gift.
Load More Replies...How about a husband who sends you flowers, then you receive the bill a few weeks later?
YES. My hair's literally EVERYWHERE. My bf recently told me he's happy I have so much hair, or I'd be bold by now!
The Bored Panda is in the picture beside the hair in the drain. The Hair is shaped like A bear/panda
My husband has fished out a lot of my hair from the drain almost on a weekly basis. I've threated to cut it all off when I can't do any with it, but he rather I keep my hair long.
My dude finds my hair in his butt crack all the time. We have no clue how it got there.
The trick is to procrastinate until someone chooses out of sheer frustration...
When I was a teenager I remember one trip to Germany with my family. Me, my brother and my mom always started to argue where we will go to eat next. Then my father got frustrated and walked to the nearest fast food restaurant to ordered food for everyone. :D
Load More Replies...The way it goes with me and my wife is: Me: Where do you want to eat? Her: Anywhere is fine. Me: How about such and such? Her: No I don't feel like eating there Me: How about this and that? Her: Nah. repeat ad infinitum.
Much worse then watching alone (the other can simply also watch later) is to continue with a computer game that you jointly played!
I think there's an Easter egg in all of these. Fun to look for.
Load More Replies...I can understand the overall concept of these comics Expectation vs. reality. But who the hell has the expectation of other one to cheat?
Lmao I thought the same. But I think it means the expectation of what cheating IS. Not that you expect it to happen.
Load More Replies...OR When you catch him eating a whole tub of ice cream... and didn't even offer you some
It's so hard to rewatch an episode and fake watch again as if it was for the first time. Hahaha
what I've seen is the opposite most of the time actually
Load More Replies...Hugging for the whole night means waking up with a sore arm as the blood circulation stopped... u_u
Load More Replies...The Bored Panda in in the blanket near the boys leg. Its on the right side.
I agree, both are good options depending on your needs
Load More Replies...The bored Panda in in the left picture. It is the stone that looks like a Panda
My love belongs to the first illustration. Me, to the second XD He doesn't get it. XD
But this is a family friendly site, it's Bored panda, not Boned Panda, after all.
Load More Replies...To be fair, most of those positions require gymnast level flexibility.
The Bored Panda is in the left picture. It is on one of the yellow spiky things.
If I'm not mistaken - the Kama Sutra involves everything EXCEPT the ole missionary position!
Not in my life, haven’t read Kama sutra, but went through entire joy of sex...
Aren't people looking for the easter eggs? Why the downvotes every time someone mentions it?
Load More Replies...I don't get how peeps are so confident with farting. oO I'm more of the first illustration material fmp
Except when she is a ninja of the nasty and turns your shower in to a gas chamber.
Nah. In a long term relationship you don't even ask; you just assume the other person farted and you go get the spray.
Panda's the little cucumber slice on the lower right in this one.
Yep I'm with the other posts. Wife loves to cook, and I do all the dishes and keep the cookspace and tools prepped and ready for her.
My God. Gay people can just exist without it having to do with pride.
Load More Replies...At first it's fine, then it's slippery, then it gets frantic & slippery, then it's dangerous & someones gonna get injured.
The main problem is not that it's slippery. It's that it's NOT slippery...
Load More Replies...I don't understand. I get in the shower with my man and it is outright FREEZING! What is wrong with them?
Preach it to the choir sister. Men can't handle warm/hot water. My boyfriend accused me of trying to boil him once.
Load More Replies...glad I'm not the only one. i like popping my husband's zits on his back. I even got the pimple popping metal stick.
Honestly that is a total turn-off. Let me live with my imperfections god dammit!
My girlfriend has a serious problem with this. It infuriates me, but she's so persistent that most of the time I just give up
Nope. Coz the Bored Panda emoji is so SMALL only you can see. In fact, it's invisible that nobody can see it with their plain eyes.
Load More Replies...Actually you can combine the 2 and make it a practical and yet sweety one~
Especially when one has a baby. For all to go to the shop takes 3 hours to get ready
This one is also both. “I love you so much OMGGGG” ..... “also we need cat food and garbage bags”
I had one of the first example. It was cute in the beginning.. I got on my nerves after some months.
nah... The cheap toilet paper while you're on your period results in a hand covered in period blood. Be a nice person, and you probably won't find a sink with bloody water in it. ;)
Load More Replies...I still write my husband sweet notes. "I'll be home around 6pm. Unload the f*cking dishwasher today or I'll give you a purple nurple. Love you."
The reality is it's too hot for you, too cold her her, you burn yourselves on the candles, wax everywhere, the tub is too small and you are cramped up, the petals get clogged in the drain and you have to hire a plumber to fix the problem. And who gets the tap end?
Baths with taps on the side instead of the end - they are worth the money!
Load More Replies...YES!! I saw that too. This relationship clearly won't last.
Load More Replies...I knew this would be here before I even saw your comment :-D
Load More Replies...I'm a girl and even I don't understand why so many women claim they don't want anything or just want a salad and then steal their partner's food. I'm like a bulldog guarding a bone when it comes to my food.
Do many women really do that though, or is it just a stereotype?
Load More Replies...because we want the bikini body.... but also fries (we want it ALL)
Load More Replies...What! How? Lol. I feel like this is the most unrealistic one by far.
Load More Replies...Totaalllll opposite. lol who is in a relationship where the partners don’t know this stuff?
i'm quite a good listener, as long as i'm not in front of my comics, computer or phone
Fuuuck, this is so true. Yet I found my true love thanks to this match. ;)
If only a guy in a bar who says that would not be turned down as a total perv right away, I would do it more.
When you are online, you attract someone of the same personality; while in really, maybe you care more about his or her image.
interesting view I think it could go both ways :)
Load More Replies...Wait the reality of trying to get milk out of the fridge is that a creepy woman is hiding behind the door??? 30 odd people upvoted this, can someone explain it, I'm lost.
You don't put milk in the door. It doesn't keep it cold enough.
Load More Replies...Doesn't help when one of us is a snorer. (Me in this case)
Load More Replies...No... Reality is that one partner becomes the bed... Queen size or not.
I like the meme I found that said "My buddy asked if he could crash on my couch. I had to explain that I'm married..and that's where I sleep."
Equally spaced sleeping sides, has this artist ever been married or lived with a woman?
Ok.... I'm my experience... my boyfriend takes up 80% of the bed. If i didn't love him so much, i would probably punch him in his sleep....
Load More Replies...Didn't really pay much attention to the comics, just finding the hidden pandas. Some were like a crack in the sidewalk, some hit me like a brick.
Are these really "expectations" vs "reality"? I feel like all of the above situations are in fact all of the possible shades of every single relationship.
Wow. This is the very only elaborate comment I could find in this topic. Everyone else must have a simple, but really awful life.
Load More Replies...wow. how original and cute. never seen anything live this or even the same s**t billions of times on BP before
I didn't even focus on the comics (having never been in a relationship), but instead was looking for the hidden pandas. Some of them were pretty hard to spot, nice job!
Nice to see the inclusion (two, at least) of same-sex couples. Thank you for that. Now, as for the ubiquitous Game of Thrones reference ...
Didn't really pay much attention to the comics, just finding the hidden pandas. Some were like a crack in the sidewalk, some hit me like a brick.
Are these really "expectations" vs "reality"? I feel like all of the above situations are in fact all of the possible shades of every single relationship.
Wow. This is the very only elaborate comment I could find in this topic. Everyone else must have a simple, but really awful life.
Load More Replies...wow. how original and cute. never seen anything live this or even the same s**t billions of times on BP before
I didn't even focus on the comics (having never been in a relationship), but instead was looking for the hidden pandas. Some of them were pretty hard to spot, nice job!
Nice to see the inclusion (two, at least) of same-sex couples. Thank you for that. Now, as for the ubiquitous Game of Thrones reference ...
