30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn’t Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them
Turns out, men's image of what women are like when nobody’s watching is often very far from the truth. Well, blame it on TV and social media, but the reality is often very different.
And how could one better learn about the little female quirks nobody knows about than actually living with them? “What's something you didn't realize that women did until you lived with them?”, someone asked on AskReddit, sparking more than 4k entertaining and honestly hilarious comments.
Scroll down through the most entertaining eureka moments from men who lived with women and had their understanding of the world challenged big time, and get ready to cringe. Are guys really that clueless, you may wonder?
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Spend hours doing hair and make up and doesn't look all that different from when they started.
Also, don't ever say that . I learned the hard way .
but then they'll ask...and there is only one right answer. "omg you look perfect!" or meet the "death ray" stare
Or you can be honest. I always tell my partner the truth which is "you look great, but again I always love how you look".
Load More Replies...This can also be called "natural" and "no-makeup" makeup. Makeup does not equal sparkly green eyeshadow and red lipstick. Unless there´s murder on the dancefloor.
That's probably because she's not doing it to look different to you. If I wear makeup it's about correcting the things that annoy me, which others don't know about.
Yeah, I mostly do it to not look exhausted 😅 When I look in the mirror with makeup on I somehow feel more energized.
Load More Replies...That's why, as a woman, I never saw the point of makeup. Maybe some lip color and mascara, but that's it. Not worth the time or effort, imo.
Yes it does, that's exactly what the natural look is. That's how you noticed her.
I didnt realize women paid so much for bras until I got married and also ended up paying too much for bras as well.
Good bras are ridiculously expensive, and the basic design hasn't changed in decades. If you're inspired to invent a comfortable, innovative, cheap bra for folks who want to wear a bra, please do it!
I remember taking my sons mom shopping for new bras. When she started to look on the cheap and I told her to get good ones, you would have thought I had offered to buy her a Rolls Royce! That was the day I learned how important a good bra is. I will also add how impressed she was when I was able to repair her underwire on her favorite bra to the point she couldn't tell it had ever been bad. Never thought i would use decades of repair experience to fix a bra.
Bras are expensive :( that's why there's one good bra and a bunch of other "eh" bras.
Welcome to our world. And bras and panties don't come as a match. You have to buy both. I am sure there are people out there with matching bras and undies but- oof that seems like a lot of money and work.
And they are at least 70 euro... I mean a really matching pair. Sincerly, I'm giving 50 euro for a good, let's say Triumph-bra, but hell-no! another 20 for the matching panty, when in fast-fashion shop you can get 3 for like 9 from cotton, and in all shapes.
Load More Replies...It's even worse for big busted women, little choice and what we do have is expensive as anything.
Welcome to the unfortunate consumer life of women. Everything is overpriced.
If you want them to be presented nice then you have to present..s us..nice! That was better in my head. I'll get my coat.
When you date a girl and you come to her place, everything is always clean and organized, but once you live with her you learn that she is as much of a slob as you are.
Or, maybe she can't keep up with your slobbiness messing up the joint and has given up trying to pick up after you.
That's what I was thinking too. For some men 'she is a slob' doesn't mean she doesn't clean her own mess but that she doesn't clean after him.
Load More Replies...Nope. This is a human thing, not the gender. Some ppl are messy, and some not.
Me neither. It really irritates me. My parents are super messy and I suffered in solence for years xD
Load More Replies...Nope. Been single for ages. It's always clean in this house. It's because I'm single that it's always neat and clean in this house. I returned the pig to his mommy's house.
Especially in the bathroom! LOL... Sink taken over, hair up the shower stall... but, she's all mine!
Too true & not ashamed to admit it. Though my “mess” is usually an organised mess (if that makes sense, LOL), as I can usually find whatever I need, even though it might look like everything is cluttered! I may be an “Aspie”, but I’m not your average “neat-freak” ... though I will most definitely get pîssed if anyone rearranges my stuff without permission! 😂
Nope, they were a slob at their own home, and a slob together too. And I am the neat freak XD
That women have magically regenerating hair. Otherwise my girlfriend should be bald judging by the amount of hair she leaves around the apartment.
Men loose hair too, you just don't see those hair as its's flushed away or too small to see.
True, i use short hair, 1/3 of an inch according to the comb on my trimer, and still my bathroom floor gets a lot of small hair from my hair, legs, chest, etc.
Load More Replies...That's how hair works. Some men just don't get replacement hairs.
And then they put it in the drain... and act surprised when the drain gets clogged every 2 weeks.
I need to google whether women shed more hair than men because my significant other freaks out about how much hair I shed. 6 years together and he still comments on my hair "loss" weekly. My theory is that because women generally have longer hair than men it's just more noticeable that we shed. Everybody sheds hair. Or maybe it's something hormonal and we do lose more hair than men? Just theories...I'm gonna go google that.
I'm glad I googled it. Here's the interesting break down: https://www.healthline.com/health/how-much-hair-loss-is-normal#men-vs-women
Load More Replies...Guys loose hair too. If they're short you just don't see them. But there is no explanation for girls leaving this disgusting hair everywhere, and I hated that when I was leaving with girl roommates. Common sense to always clean after yourself.
I guess you don't realize men can have long hair, there is no different between the genders.
I never realized just how much blood comes out of a woman on her period until I walked in on a friend taking a shower...I honestly thought she was dying and bleeding out.
Yeah it's not just blood either. Lots of chunks/ clots too. It always made me laugh when on shows like CSI they would swab the tub drain, find blood and conclude it was murder. There is another really good explanation.
The uterus tearing down the wall paper because it wasn’t given a baby. So efficient.
Load More Replies...Wait, we not gonna talk about him walking in on a friend taking a shower?? =/
Day Oliveira, you ask the questions that we need answered.
Load More Replies...As a person who menstruates, it weirds me out that most men could potentially go a year or more without seeing their own blood.
Give how accident prone the ones I know are, I doubt that
Load More Replies...Riiiight, I'm always "walking in on my friends taking a shower" as well.
ikr, the op was trying to gloss over that part like thats normal lol
Load More Replies...I mean, this has never been me. I don't lose that much. You can't even see it if I shower. I feel like this is just massive generalizations based on the small random sample they had. Every woman is different.
Try bleeding for 10 months. Death would have been a much better alternative for me.
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Steal my hoodies then complain when I stole her bras.
Seriously though, don’t mess with our bras, pads, tampons. Pads and tampons especially. I can’t count the number of times a boy pulled out some random girls bloody tampon. Why is this even an issue at my school.
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When it's time for her to go to bed, it's actually time for us to go to bed.
Lots of women do this. I don't and have never understood why women think that the partners should go to bed when the women go to bed.
There's a perfectly sane reason for this. If the woman went to bed earlier she's fast asleep by the time the guy comes to bed. Than she's a rudely awoken by a person who needs to belch at max volume at least 10 times before he falls asleep. And the woman lays awake for the rest of the night.
Load More Replies...We have separate bedrooms so I have no idea when my partner goes to bed!
I read an article that said good and healthy sleeping only works when you sleep alone
Load More Replies...Really? That's ridiculous, you should go to bed when YOU want not what she dictates.
Not a gendered thing. My husband is the one who (thinks he) decides when we go to bed, lol. Also he uses far more toilet paper than me.
Nope I am my own person and I’ll be single and homeless before I have a bedtime again.
i cannot fall asleep with somebody trying to sleep at same time, i need to be asleep first
That's just stupid, you're not Siamese twins. There's no reason why her/his bedtime has to be the same time as the partner as well.
Women pee with a pressure hose.
I still get a little scared when I hear a girl have a good piss and it sounds like she's boring a hole through the toilet.
Is this guy standing behind doors listening women to pee? (Edit: i don't know what kind of doors you have in other countries but usually i cannot hear someone peeing unless the door is open...and i don't have a huge apartment)
LMFAO, WHAT ABOUT HOW GUYS PEE!!!! SOUNDS LIKE A GARDEN HOSE BEING SPRAYED IN THAT MF
My ex was dumbfounded when he discovered that I can turn the flow on and off. I thought guys could do it too.
Also have men ever listened to themselves...it sound exactly the same (mother of boys)
So us peeing is loud then? I wasn't actually aware of that.
This is literally not everyone.... and it goes for guys too. Some are like hoses and some are tinkly. Having been in women's bathrooms a lot (I'm a woman and I pee a lot), its the same for women. Some women sound like a bucket of water is being dropped in the basin all at once.
Women use a lot of toilet paper, ALOT.
Do we have to explain it again? Yes we pee and after we have to wipe and also we bleed!!! Helloooo!
yup yup, plus we do not like skid marks... do we ?
Load More Replies...And men don't use enough, judging from the horror stories from women about skidmarks left on sheets by men they have had in their beds.
Our bits are closer together, absolute cleanliness is important. Also, we expel our uterine lining every four weeks. That can get messy.
For pee, for wiping after washing with water after poo, period blood, vaginal discharge, makeup stains, smeared lipstick marks, moisturiser spills, to clean the toothpaste stuck to the side of the basin, to blow my nose, to wipe my tears, etc.
Men use hardly any lol. How do you not at least wipe the tip after peeing?
I dated a guy who wiped his off with wet tissue. I was so impressed.
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My girlfriend of a year had naturally curly hair that she straightened every morning. Never had a clue.
Can we not with this. I hate being shamed for straightening my hair by people who think they know better than me and its secretly beautiful or whatever. It looks fine, same with straight unstyled hair. To have hair that looks like that model I would need a ton of product and curling implements. I'm all for natural hair being in (especially with POC) and women shouldn't feel like they need to straighten but I also dislike this idea that styled curls in model photos are what women with curly/wavy hair look like.
Load More Replies...Women with curly hair often want it straight. Women with straight hair often want curls. And some of us have hair that poofs up at the slightest hint of moisture in the air.
I had a girlfriend with hair just like the woman pictured. I saw a picture of her with straight hair and honestly wasn't sure if it was her. But when she was young, she wanted straight hair like every other girl had. She said I was the first guy who absolutely adored her curls. I told her this was proof she usually dated really, really dumb guys. She is now happy with her unique hair and when she feels good says, "My curls are happy."
A lot of places of business seem to feel straight hair looks more professional meaning less ethnic. I have curly hair and refer to straight hair as rich girl hair.
I'm so unlucky with my wavy hair. In its' natural state it always looks like its' never seen a comb, so I have to straighten it a bit. I've been trying to get more orderly waves/curl, but I haven't had much luck. *sigh*
My girlfriends burps are far more powerful than mine. I beat her in farts however.
imagine they doing their best performance at the same time...
Load More Replies...They say that women can't fart really well because they never shut up long enough to build up pressure. (I'm a woman, so don't hate me!)
My daughter's farts will have all the car windows down, while doing 70, on the interstate in 20F weather, with freezing rain blowing in. Since she was a baby, she could be weaponized.
Take scalding hot showers. It's like the only use the cold knob has is to hold the body scrubber thing.
No frickin way. I hate scalding hot showers, my hubby on the other hand loves them. I'm very sensitive.
My wife was the opposite. Her shower water was just warm enough to prevent goosebumps. "Showering" together never became a thing with us.
That decorative pillows are a thing. You carefully choose and purchase them just so you can spend the rest of your life pushing them out of the way, and occasionally cleaning them.
My friend has all these pillows on her bed so I asked her what she does with them when she goes to bed? She said, I throw them on the floor. Omg freakin HILARIOUS
I've always had pretty pillows on my couch but they serve a purpose. The go behind my back for extra support, under my head if I want to lie down or under my arm for comfier position etc. They are meant to be used and I just don't understand why men hate pillows so much.
It took me a while to figure out that pads are stuck onto the panties as opposed to right on the vagina!
It's makes me cringe when vagina is used instead of vulva. Do you shave your vagina? Of course not, it is hairless naturally
Load More Replies...Wow. We need better education -- sex ed, anatomy class, home ec, how to be a human 101, whatever you want to call it. Imagine if this poor human tried to parent daughters one day being this oblivious.
I can't believe men actually think this. OUCH!! If this were true (and yes, not vagina - vulva), can't they even imagine how painful it would be to rip the adhesive side from the hair??
Only lad in the family apart from my pa. Two older sisters and mother. TIL this 😬
But - adhesive stuck to hair?? and moisture makes adhesive not stick as well!! SMH.
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Get angry with me for what I did in her dream.
This is kinda crappy to say. Everyone is different. My fiance is really affected by dreams. He doesn't get mad at me or anything if dream me did something, but he sometimes has an intense reaction that can change his mood due to a nightmare. He also gets night terrors. It's bad for people to take things out on others but people are allowed to feel their feelings even if its anger or whatever. For me dreams dont affect me as much, they roll off my back-- not even nightmares, but for him they make him feel down for a while. He gets over it quick but I dont think he's ''a nutter" for being that way.
Load More Replies...That isn't a woman thing. I have never been mad about things I dreamed about.
I have done this but I'm over it within a couple of hours but usually less coz I realise it's just a dream and not reality.
I don't do that. I understand the difference between dreams and reality. Dreams reveal to us what we try to avoid, our fears, or simply what we need to let go of
I guess this is the problem then... if she dreams about him doing something bad, then her subconscious is either suspicious of him (she's seen some possible red flags she wants to ignore) or she is just simply afraid he might do something to hurt her (because she has been hurt before and doesn't want a repeat of that pain)...
Load More Replies...When I was growing up, my (single) mum would always tell me 'Make sure you put the toilet seat down, your future wife will thank me.' Second year of uni, was in a house share with two guys (me and another), two girls. I was genuinely shocked that the girls didn't put the toilet seat down. (Okay, so it turns out that there is a difference between the 'seat' and the 'lid'.) Still, I always put the seat lid down - apart from anything else, when you flush when you're wearing shorts, you realise just how much spray there is...
That's what's the lid is there for and i don't get why this is not common knowledge!
Same. I get so annoyed when guests at my house leave the lid up.
Load More Replies...Oh boy. Just sit down peeing already. Men in other countries do it and don't feel their masculinity threatened by it. Problem solved.
My husband was a USAF fighter pilot. When we married I was surprised to see he sat on the toilet when he peed. That was a very very good thing. No pee splattered everywhere.
Load More Replies...I raised 3 boys and never understood the whole "it's a guys responsibility to put the seat down" thing. Or...women can lift it up when they're done lol. I think everyone should put the lid down when they flush, that way no accidental fallings in or pee pees on the seat will happen lol
I think it's because it serves everyone. It's most logical. Everyone sits to poo (unless you're a squatter) and no one enjoys falling in the toilet or sitting your butt down on someone else's piss. In your situation being the only woman it may make more sense the other way around though
Load More Replies...I always put the lid down because one of my cats likes to play in the toilet.
I always put the seat down, but I didn't make an issue out of it if other people didn't. Then I fostered kittens. They jump on anything, and they are still learning how to cat. Unless I wanted kittens in the toilet, the lid had to go down all the time.
Load More Replies...Want to see just how extensive that spray is, especially the splashback from peeing while standing? Take a high-powered UV (blacklight) lamp in the bathroom after dark with the door closed and all other lights off! Be prepared for it to look like you just entered a planetarium or CSI murder scene. Every bright spot, even the little glowing speckles on everything you touch is urine. I bet that at a minimum you won't be wanting to leave your toothbrush exposed to bathroom air anymore. Yeah, let that last part sink in for a bit...
I hate the lid down, I dont want to pull it up especially if I have to go so badly I can barely hold it. Had to train husband not to because at night I would either feel around or sit on a closed lid.
At least put the lid down when you flush after pooping, unless you want fecal matter on your toothbrush.
Load More Replies...HA! We used to have a sign up in my home that was just my three sons and I. It said "This is a predominately male household. Please leave the seat up!". Yes, full time single dad and fully aware of multiple nocturnal visits to the urinal.
I always thought it a little unfair that woman get to decide the position of the seat, particularly if there are several boys. It's far easier to put down than lift up. I do prefer for the lid to be down when flushing. My main gripe with my husband is coming across an unflushed toilet (number 1, he always flushes number 2). Fortunately we were able to solve the problem by each having our own bathroom.
Load More Replies...I never understand other women that complain that men leave the seat up. I would much rather a bloke leave the seat up, than didn't bother putting it up and then pissing all over the seat.
Different grades of tampons are for heavy or lighter flows, I could figure that. But apparently wearing a super flow for a week instead of changing out for multiple lights is a good way to give yourself a bit of the ole toxic shock.
Yeah, you can’t leave them in for more than ~8 hours. Nothing happens if you go a bit longer, but leaving one in for multiple days is definitely dangerous.
I wonder, if you get in an accident while wearing a tampon, does hospital staff check if you have one in? (ofcourse not if you're ok/awake, but when you are seriously injured). Would be a shame to stitch you back up together, stop internal bleedings etc and then die of a forgotten tampon...
unless you forget to take out your last one. I did that once
Load More Replies...Some don't know where the pads go but this guy knows how often we need to change tampons? Impressive
I read that as he suggested we should just wear one tampon for our entire period and had to learn that this is not a good idea. So, I was very much the opposite of impressed.
Load More Replies...Uh YEAH! Let me count the ways. 1. Blood decays. and it SMELLS. 2. Chemicals in said tampon. 3. Bacteria on tampon in vag. NOT ALWAYS GOOD! 4. Breakdown of tampon. Yep.They have expiration dates, and if theyre old they break down when they get full. 5. Pee. Pee string. pee up string into tampon because wicking swirly. Ammonia. Irritated skin. Even mucus membrane skin gets rashes.
Yeah, tampons absorb vaginal defence mucus too. That can allow bad stuff to get through.
When I was a kid, our neighbor died of toxic shock from leaving a super absorbent tampon in for too long. It happens.
I thought I had toxic shock in college..it was just a panic attack :-/
I still don't know what she does with that weird rock thing in the shower.
It's probably a pumice stone and it's used for scraping rough old skin off feet. And you should be grateful it exists, if you don't like her ice cold feet touching you, imagine if they felt like they were covered in sandpaper. And off that point: some of you lads really need to learn how to use a pumice stone.
I use a two- sided callous remover every time I shower.
Load More Replies...Yeah. You should definitely try it. But, get your own! DO NOT USE HERS!!!
Load More Replies...Grinds off the dry hard skin so she doesn't grate your feet with her heels when you sleep (Not me tho, wink)
wtf are women doing that their feet get that calloused? I've never had a callous in my 40+ years of life, but it seems like a universal thing for women
Good question. It cannot be ridiculous footwear because I do not wear that and still have callouses. Maybe it's a hormonal thing or womens skin is just different....
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I was about 19 or 20 when I learned women wipe after they pee. It's not that it didn't make sense to me, I just never had a reason to even consider it as a thing. So I was quite dumbfounded when I saw it happen.
Honestly I don't understand why men don't! Watching men's underwear always with a small stain of pee on them after the toilet it's not sexy at all!!
The stain is one thing but the stench of piss if you're ever 'down that way' *ahem* is a real mood killer.
Load More Replies...Um, my husband wipes after peeing too? You're telling me other men don't? Ew.
No matter how much you wiggle and dance, the last three drops will fall in your pants.
I'm very, very close to never shaking a man's hand ever agsin, seriously. Wipe your d*cks after peeing. Wash your hands after peeing, ffs!!
that was how i got my husband and niece to stop biting their nails, they both work in business and a lot of handshaking goes on.
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Load More Replies...I can just shake my head about this topic (men peeing). German men sit down peeing, therefor there are no arguments about the seat staying up or down AND they wipe their penis after peeing.
Well even it men would do it, due to obvious anatomical reasons, some pee is always stuck inside the tubes :)
I once read that this issue can be resolved by peeing whilst sitting down.
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Had no clue I loaded the dishwasher 'wrong.'
My dad has forbidden anyone else from stacking the dishwasher. We all apparently do it wrong XD
Load More Replies...I've never understood how any adult can think that the water sprayer in the dishwasher could reach things stacked like in a cupboard or drawer. Or how they expect a right-side up glass to be empty after the cycle. And if it's plastic, top rack please, away from the heating coils.
I'm the one who loads the dishwasher like a tetris champ. She can't fit 3 cat bowls and a dinner plate into one.
I think this is part of the reason people get divorced. Don't focus on the fact that it was done differently than the way you do it. Focus on the fact that the other person is trying to get it done and help. Of course, if there's still food stuck to the plates and stuff, coach them on hiw to improve so they won't have to waste time doing the same load of dishes again. Be caring and helpful, not rude and combative.
I can see from here that the dishes are stacked with the wrong side up and that blue cup should have been at the back of the rack with the logo facing the other way.
Oh women do this too. My girlfriend loads the dishwasher like a drunken sailor. I can get twice the dishes in it that she can. I loaded the dishwasher once at her house (including like a week's worth of dishes from the sink) and turned it on and she came in and was like - What happened to the dishes? She was convinced that they were all going to come out not cleaned right because there was no way they had all fit in the dishwasher. Now when she is doing dishes she makes me leave the kitchen because she says she can feel me silently watching her and judging her loading skills.
I did not realize that women had to pluck the hair out on their nipples. I was shocked!
or some just don't have hairs on their nipples.
Load More Replies...What now?? I'm a woman and has never heard of this. But even more shocking is that this person now seems to believe that every woman do this.
I believe this generally a problem of certain ethnicities. I am blonde with very fine light body hair so I do not have this problem edit: Apparently it has nothing to do with ethnicity and I just don't have random hairs...Hey I will take any luck I can get.
Load More Replies...Dang the comments on this is a little disheartening. Just a ton of women horrified at the idea that someone might suspect they have hair on their nipples. Like chill. Some women get stray hairs around the nipple. Body hair, oh god no!
I think its kinda funny because for me all the random hairs I got happened with age, but once upon a time I was also that young clueless girl that thought body hair would never happen to me. It did. And it probably will to at least half the young girls on here who are like 'but not me!' ... even if you dont get nip hairs you'll get chin hairs or some other kinda weird aging thing. It's normal and not a big deal. It's definitely not an anomaly nor is it anything to be ashamed about.
Load More Replies...Some have hairs they pluck, some have hairs but don't bother plucking, some do not have any hairs on their nipps at all.
This is a thing? [EDIT: I am female, and I've never heard of anyone doing this.]
Kinda like how some mean have full on Robin Williams chest hair, while other men are like hairless sphinx cats.
It's not a dark hair thing. It can totally happen to women with blonde hair and it sometimes doesn't happen to women with dark hair. Its usually with age, and other hormonal factors and sometimes doesn't happen. Bodies are weird and do weird things as they age. I wouldn't worry about it, especially if you are under 30.
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I was ready for ‘decorative pillows’. I was ready for wall art.
I was NOT ready for bras everywhere the first time she did laundry after moving in.
I'm impressed she owns more than two bras. Those f*****s are insanely expensive.
specially if you need a good one because your boobs are enormous.
Load More Replies...She is lucky! I'm struggling to find comfortable ones and have basically one or two
That is because you aren't suppose to bras in the dryer. I am too lazy to sort laundry so I just put them in the dryer- the brand I get is pretty good so they don't seem to suffer too much wear.
Um, that means she's taking her bra off around the house. Are you sure you're not okay with that? (Also, most bras are really uncomfortable. Taking a bra off as soon as you can makes sense!)
On top of being insanely pricey, washing deteriorates them.. so unless they need to be washed because of sweat, they might be washed every other week. That’s why we have sports bras, to avoid washing our regular ones often. Yes, never put them in the dryer, always hang dry!
This is such a small "inconvenience". It could be much worse. She could be a hoarder.
My wife has like 4... (and one is the "good" one!) And those 4 were about the equivalent of a mortgage payment.
Well some of us if we don't sweat we don't change the bra in a week or more 😂
As the WFH hubby (so i do the washing) Bra's and panties are NOT the enemy. Bobby-pins, and hair-scrunchies are. They end up EVERYWHERE. Like one uses animal paw prints and droppings to identify the recent presence of a type of animal, so does Hair, pins and scrunchies identify the type of woman. Wait until your wife has a chit-chat with a friend or do hair in your main bedroom and you can literally SMELL another woman has been in your room. With WFH and isolation it is now brutally apparent when someone else has been in the house. That, and you're probably "invisible" to each other after about 11 months of living in the same house together 24/7
When I first moved in with my girlfriend, I got yelled at for putting 'dirty' clothes with my clean ones. I was totally under the impression I could wear that shirt like two more times.
Haven't you ever heard about "the chair"??? This is where you put the clothes that are too dirty to put in the closet and too clean to put for laundry!
Socks and underwear get one wear and then into the laundry. T-shirts I will wear up to 3 times, assuming it is winter and I'm not exercising (i.e. no sweat), but if I am sweaty for any reason they are in the laundry after one use. Hoodies and jeans get worn until they look dirty. My work clothes have a whole other regime.
You can. I'm obsessed enough about it though that I have two hampers. One is for dirty clothes and the other is for clothes-that-I've-only-worn-once-and-could-probably-be-worn-again-but-aren't-quite-clean-and-aren't-quite-dirty. =D
... and so you can, just don't put them with freshly laundered clothes. but on "the chair".
You can. Just find somewhere specific to put them, so they don't get mixed either with the clean clothes or the ones that are too dirty to wear again.
Unless I was doing something that made me sweat, I'm wearing a shirt 3 times before washing and blue jeans for at least 5 days. Tip for guys that don't know. Wash all clothes inside out to prevent premature wear. If you want to brighten your whites, wash them with your blue jeans. The blue that leaches out makes the whites look brighter.
Women shaving their bits. The first time I saw my girlfriend do this, I was immediately terrified, as if I knew a better way to do it.
Waxing is undoubtedly more painful but there's something about a sharp blade near the soft sensitive bits that gives me the w1llies (pun intended).
Load More Replies...This is another funny one as in men dont' realise how much/many we use. Like hello, you shave your face, I shave my legs, armpits and bikini line. More skin to cover lads!
Well if we weren't trick and pressured into dumb beauty standards like a 100 years ago she wouldn't have to.
There are more reasons for shaving than beauty standards. Many women do it for hygienic purposes or because it makes certain 'things' between partners easier.
Load More Replies...Yeah, I don't bother. The aftermath is never worth the price if your skin is at all sensitive.
I still can't get used to the eyelash thing my wife uses. That gets me even now. It looks like a clamp
Just wait for the day she asks you to help. Talk about a whole new level of trust.... and the evil grin on her face the entire time 🤣🤣
The wife has gotten wise on how utterly s**t ladies razors are. We both use men's razors and blades. For safety's sake i dab some blue nail polish on my current kit, so she knows she has free reign on any and all razors that are not specifically marked. The only argument is, if it says "for her" or "fem" or anything pink, it will not be bought. We've bought one of every of the men's handles, so whatever is on blowout sale, well that's what will be used for the coming months.
As a woman, I agree! Men's razors are so much better than women's! My husband and I both have the same set, but my handle is another color, so we don't use the exact same razor. But we both use the same system! I am glad I went to men's razors. Looking back at it, most razors for women are crappy!
Load More Replies...My husband can't watch. Typically we just jump in the shower together to save time, but if I start to shave around my vagina, he runs for the hills and begs me to "Be careful." He can't handle the idea of witnessing the horror if I were to slip up. Says it means too much to him to see any harm come to it.
"I know a better way to shave a vagina, something I do not have, than someone who has had one her entire life. I am very intelligent."
"You don't use those towels, they're for decoration"....For who??
True. My mother would go mad if I used the guest towel. The result is that I now find it almost impossible to use a guest towel when I'm a grown up guest in someone's house
My Mum once cried after I used her 'decorative' towel. WHY IS IT IN THE BATHROOM THEN?
Load More Replies...Towels? Pshaw! I knew a couple who had an entire room no one was allowed into. Completley furnished, just for show.
That or the same said room but with plastic covers on EVERYTHING!
Load More Replies...4 towels in our bathroom... hers... HERS and 2 you'd better not DARE touch! (Mine are on the back of a chair!)
Or guests. Mom would buy "guest hand towels" for the downstairs bathroom and get pissed when dad would muck them up drying his hands after washing grease off
Categories in my house: 1.Big bath towels(aka bathsheets) for body, 2. normal size bath towels for hands or hair, 3. old towels for stepping out of the shower or washing pets. Oh and a couple of beach towels. Its not complicated.
My wife poops 3 times a day and it only take like 30 sec! I poop once a day and it take a good 10 mins if not longer.
Believe diet has a lot to do with this. For me cups of green tea is the difference between a 1 long session and multiple short sessions.
You might be on to something. I also drink lots of green tea and take way less time than my husband does
Load More Replies...A large group of friends of mine and me all had a very long chat about this phenomena. Males and females there. We just all needed to know why men took 20 mins to poo and also have a good read of the paper. Our final conclusion was it must be something to do with the prostate bc what else? Funny night.
That means your eating habits are crap. She probably eats healthier than you, and actually drinks water.
That's nothing to do with femininity. That's just having a healthy gut flora and/or diet. You poor sod.
Bobby pins and hair everywhere, suppose I will be okay if fallout happens
There is a black hole somewhere that steals hairties and single socks
Load More Replies...I don't know if many of you understood this, but "Fallout" is a video game where you can use bobby pins to open locks
THE ENEMY! I knew this was coming. The rule is, if it can find it's way to the floor and is small enough to get eaten by the Roomba, so long, or SHE can dig though the lint-bin of the vacuum cleaner
I have never owned any bobby pins in my life and used barrettes instead.
Maybe this is isolated, but how often she's in the bathroom for a pee. My mother and sister never had liquids run through them as quick as my fiance. Like, glass of water she has maybe an hour before needing to piss. It's tons of toilet paper and a bother on road trips. Our roommate was also shocked that men "pee so loudly". I'm over 6 feet tall, I stand to pee, how the hell do you think I should pee silently?
Sitting? And not spraying the whole bathroom maybe? Especially when you are tall!
aim for the side of the bowl instead of directly into the water. I learned that as a child.
Load More Replies...Standing while peeing seems so feral. Just sit, like a civilized person, and stop getting piss drops all over the floor.
I got into the habit of sitting to pee when I worked as cook and wore an apron. It was also a time for a quick smoke and it's nearly impossible to smoke a cigarette, hold your apron out of the way, and aim your stream all at the same time. Over time it became my standard method when I realized it was more sanitary.
A female urethra is way shorter than a male's so we feel the need to pee so much more.
I was surprised at how loudly one of my roommates was peeing. F****r wasn't closing the bathroom door. *facepalm*
Sit to pee!! And you don’t have to clean up piss spray all over the toilet the walls and the floor!!!!! 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
I am like this myself. I used to avoid drinking water because of this or try holding it in for an extra hour because I wanted to exercise my bladder. It's terrible.
Girls actually do that throw all your clothes on the bed thing that you see in sitcoms.
I certainly don't but that may be because of the cats who immediately materialize to shed all over any clean clothes placed on the bed
Chairs, they have been around a long time, clothes chairs.
Load More Replies...The only time I do this is when I'm putting clean clothes away after sitting in a basket for days lol.
maybe when they're 14-24, but I would hope not after that. just pick and outfit. if it's not right, put it away and pick another.
I do it when I'm going for a date or lounge with friends and can't find anything to wear.
Only when I was working 60+ hour weeks, and you probably do similar things in those kinds of situations.
That my Sunday morning hangover after a big night out with the boys ( not a regular occurrence ) absolutely meant that the vacuuming had to be done throughout the house then and only then.
Um, that's not a "woman" thing. That's a "someone is mad at you" thing.
Address the situation immediately. My wife had a habit of constantly walking in front of the TV whenever there was a film on that I wanted to see. I just asked her not to do that and it turned out she hadn't noticed how it annoyed me.
I did that since I was tired of my BF always drinking too much and having to sleep it off the whole next day. It took abt three times for him to get the message. And he found out it was a good idea to drink less and be able to function the day after.
I would be super pissed off. But than again we don't know the full situation. If he was supposed to do the vaccuming but didn't, wife gets a pass here
That her hair brush, hair dryer, hair straightener, ect all have to stay on the counter 24/7 despite enot even being used every day.
There's absolutely no reason for it. Just as I don't have my jack hammer on the coffee table all the time, my wife doesn't get to clutter the counter with stuff she hardly uses.
Load More Replies...Women are always cold...always. I can be sweating in shorts and a T-shirt, but my S.O. will be wrapped in blankets still.
No. Women are not always cold...always. YOUR S.O appear to be. Myself, I don't even like being warm. No blankets until winter.
In air conditioned buildings, this is really common. A lot of office buildings will keep the temperature low - like 68-70 F (20-21 C) - which is generally too cold for women. I used to get picked on for wearing gloves and a hoodie at work because I was absolutely freezing (68 in our office), while my male coworkers were in slacks and a shirt sleeve top. Mind you, this is an average/generalization - there are plenty of women who are fine at colder temps, and men who aren’t.
Said it before, women have a higher core temperature than men which makes us feeling cold way faster.
Some women are cold, some are hot. My neck area and toes get cold easily, maybe my arms sometimes too, but the rest of me is hot. Then again, I live in a very drafty old house.
Take massive poop with nuclear fallout levels. Like, obviously I knew women poop. But deep down, I guess I never realized it was just as bad as men’s poop.
Sorry to burst your bubble but also we fart and burp! And it's not rainbow and glitter
Science class. Now. Please. For the masses. We need remedial biology basics, and we need it now.
Lololol. I had an ex that could not accept women had bodily functions. Dude was in his 30s at the time and completely scandalized by a female coworker going poo at all, let alone stinking up the bathroom. That was a short-lived relationship. Not sure how he handled the idea of menstruation. He was so easily grossed out.
Bad smelling poop is a sign of eating bad food. As my doctor said, if your poop stinks, your food sucks.
No matter how good your diet is, it's not gonna smell of roses. S**t is s**t.
Load More Replies...In my 10 years living alone, I have never once needed to dump drano down any of my drains. They just never get clogged with the short hairs that go down the drains. I have to dump drano down the drain every 4 months or else I'll get a lake in the shower. And this also happens when I use those shower mushrooms in the drain to collect hair.
Draino is terrible for your plumbing and can give you chemical burns if it doesn't work and you have to actually manually unclog the drain. Just buy a snake
Please tell me snake is the name of an item of plumbing equipment
Load More Replies...I have long curly hair, I brush before getting in the shower, whatever comes off in the shower I push to side and remove as soon as I'm done. If I'm straighting my hair I close the drain in the sink and clean it all up as soon I'm done. There are ways to prevent clogged pipes. 😉
So many times I have entered the shower to see lengths of hair swirls on the shower wall. I absolutely loved her long hair so it was a small price to pay to keep my drains unclogged.
Load More Replies...I have long hair that touches even below my butt. On days when I wash my hair, I pull out all my stray, fallen hair strands, roll them up and just stick it to the bathroom wall. I make sure to pluck them from my hips and calves so that they make their way down into the drain. Once I'm done showering, I collect all the hair on the wall and throw it in the trash. Absolutely no clogged drains. When my sister (short shoulder length hair) learned of my technique, she started doing the same.
Cotton balls. Where do they come from? what are they used for? why are they all over the bathroom floor? these are the questions I ponder when I'm taking a dump.
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Ball Joe I'd been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Ball Joe?
I almost spit my water out after reading this, thanks for making my day 😂
Load More Replies...I do not know the correct answer to question number one and two but the answer for question three is "cats"!
skincare liquids, rubbing alcohol, any liquid that you rub on your body.
I get ready once, when i wake up. She gets ready anytime we leave the house, this includes a thorough check of every room. When she says "let's go to the store" we are still a good half hour away from leaving.
All of these are generalisations. Just as men are generalised for being sexist, condescending jerks. At least, that's the trend on BP.
Load More Replies...Opposite in my house. I'm always the one ready and waiting for 30 minutes.
If anything they blast farts with greater intensity, volume and toxicity than us menfolk.
Other way round for me. I can burp and say Archbishop at the same time though, which I am unusually proud of.
Load More Replies...Women: Clothes/shoe hording. The amount of clothes they have but will never wear and will never get rid of, but will come back around and tell the dude that he has too much stuff. Dahell?
Yeah, I literally have just over a dozen clothing articles and that includes all my shorts to my formals, guess am not alone
One time my dad told me I had too many shoes, so I asked him how many baseball caps he had. My mom laughed her way out of the room.
Not always true. My husband hoards clothes. he has his own wardrobe and also half of mine. In our loft is a large bag of his old tee shirts and another one of 'really' old tee shirts.
Same!! Mine has 1/2 our shared closet, a tall boy dresser, another dresser with 5 out of 6 drawers and another 1/2 closet. I have a dresser and 1/2 our shared closet.
Load More Replies...I have over 10 pairs of vans.. checkered, prints, plain, etc... I totally understand the women shoe thing. Sometimes you just gotta wear multi-colored checkered vans with peanuts characters in some squares to make a statement about your mood 😁
We have a walking closet for our clothes. It's filled to the rafters, with my wife's shoes, panties, lingerie, dresses, skirts, purses and shawls and my pair of jeans.
I'm finally hoarding pants, because a few years ago we got this one store here and they sell very cute pants and often in my size and they're cheap and most of the time I can find discounted ones in my size as well. Never had this many pairs of pants in my life, but it makes me so f*****g happy that I have them all. I've worn all except one pair, those were on sale for almost nothing and they were cute and supposedly in my size, but they were too tight. Maybe some day they'll fit! :p I also did get a pair of shorts for 1 euro, and they're a bit too tight as well, for now.
I heard the rumors, but I still wasn't prepared for... A. the hair pins/hair ties everywhere. B. my bathroom filling up with more niche (and unreasonably expensive) hair and skin care products on every available surface. I have bar soap, and a thing of shampoo. My last to partners both had at least 20-30 different bottles of product. C. my hobbies becoming sins, that if I partook of, meant days, if not weeks of random bullshit arguments over tiny little things.
I'd like to hear more about those "hobbies", though...
Load More Replies...About C. Seems like you found yourself a real idiotic woman, there. There are girls out there that are not like that, and actually care about equality.
I share shampoo, conditioner, body wash and even razor (not blade) with my hubby. The extra I have is a facial cleanser and a femine wash. The last ones a bit concerning. We are allowed hobbies and alone time. Doesn't sound like a healthy relationship.
What if his hobby is porn? What if he spends hours upon hours with his ass parked in his gaming chair? Considering how women are conditioned to always put their needs behind everyone else's, I'm going to assume she has a decent reason to be pissed, and that this dude is giving very limited information for a reason.
Load More Replies...If it has become your hobby to engage in bullshit arguments you are advised to break up or get marriage counseling.
If your woman doesn't accept your hobbies, then she's not the right one for you, my dude.
My wife will get upset with me about things she sees morons do in a movie.
Some married guy is looking at/flirting with/cheating with some woman other than his wife in the movie, and my wife turns and says, "Now why on earth would he do that?!?" or "What the hell is he thinking?!"
uhm.... because it's in the script?
Because it is a plot point? Just like anything else in the script.
Load More Replies...Maybe she is genuinely trying to get insight in to the situation from a male perspective?
Maybe she thinks men would actually act like that and wants her husband to explain why? When I see men doing/saying something stupid in a movie I often ask my husband if things like that really happen. Then I proceed to get upset at the stupid scrip once he confirms it's just stupid writing. :)
Maybe she is warning you in her own way that she doesn't approve of cheating
I swear my ex was so messy that her bathroom looked like a freshly fought battleground. No joke, I also never knew they farted until I met her.
I start to wonder when women have kids they never fart in front of their kids even accidentally? How come and men find out only a lot later?
My mom loved to fart in store aisles and then giggle like mad when we accidentally walked into it. It was nasty. I think these men are just very sheltered
Load More Replies...This might be a changing value, as a kid I never heard adults fart unless it was in a movie. I was taught that if I feel the urge to fart to go to the restroom to do it. I'm 50+ now. Of course as a kid and teenage boy, farts were the funniest things ever and both boys and girls did it in public.
Well assuming another human doesn't fart just because of gender is stupid.
Things I've noted about living with women: Cleanliness Women aren't "cleaner" than men. They're tidier than men. There's a difference. Tidy is all about appearance; clean is all about actual hygiene. As long as guests can't see the filth, they're fine with it. The living room and and kitchen (which people will see) will look like it sprung from the pages of Better Homes & Gardens; their room (which virtually no one will see, unless they're getting laid at which point they won't care) will look like Dresden circa 1945. The coffee table and counter will look surgically scrubbed; they'll have leftovers in the fridge that have been there since Christmas. Ferrets Guys, don't move in with a girl who has a ferret. Girls, don't be that girl who owns a ferret. Edit: Money Two guys paying a shared power bill Guy 1: "Ok, it's $500. So we're paying $250 each. Guy 2: "Fair enough." A guy and a girl Girl: "The power bills is $500." Guy: "All right, $250 each." Girl: "Actually, I don't feel I should paying that much because I was away for five days last month, and anyway you left a light on in the kitchen while you weren't in it last Tuesday, and plus how much power does your computer use compared to my laptop...so I think I should only have to pay...$100." Guy: "You leave you damn light on in your room all the time!" Girl: "Yes, but I can't help that. It's only because Mr. Turtley, my pet turtle, is afraid of the dark..."
The shared bill thing; that's just the type of women this guy is going out with. I would never do that. You both live there, you pay 50/50.
A ferret is a terrible idea, you need FERRETS not FERRET. They get terribly lonely, I have 5 and they are like the center of my universe... oh yeah. I see it.
"As long as guests can't see the filth, they're fine with it."Except if she's like my mother. Whenever she had a little party at the house it meant top-to-bottom deep cleaning. "But Mom," I complained, "Who's going to be looking in the attic or in my closet?" "You never know." "Do YOU go poking around your friends' homes?" "No, but one of them might."
Ig that's a bit different at least in India, here if there's a group of like 5-6 guys, a single one would shell out like 70-80% and at least couple of them wouldn't even pay and rest would then be distributed according to some mysterious criteria
There is a definitive class/caste system in traditional culture. I've seen it here in the USA in the workplace. You should see the undercurrent when the wife, of a man who was highly ranked in his area(for lack of a better term), received a promotion and became his supervisor.
Load More Replies...This is oddly specific. When my boyfriend stayed over with me for 3 months in the place I was splitting with a flatmate, I made her pay 1/3 the amount and covered the other 2/3 since we were a couple. It only seemed fair. Another time, my mom and I stayed with my sister and her flatmate for a month and my mom and I paid the entire utility bill for that month.
Women: Use like 3 TP rolls per day. Leave hairs everywhere. Take up 85% of all the closet, floor, shelf, and bathroom space but then be like "OMG, quit hogging all the room."
My husband uses more space in our closet and has a harder time getting rid of clothes than I do. To be fair, he's military, so his uniforms take up a good amount of space, but he also doesn't like to get rid of the old ones after they change the pattern, so after 19 years of active duty and 4 different pattern changes, that a lot of camo in the closet.
Men leave the same amount of hair around, it’s usually shorter so you don’t notice as much.
Just date girls with short hair, who don't use make up and have basic skincare routines.
Some women do that, some are quite the opposite. But let's remember that this is just a fun topic about generalisations so don't get so offended over it. There are more pressing issues to be offended about.
Actually "shake it" after they pee. I had no idea that was a real thing.
I was wondering if I'm missing certain muscles or skills
Load More Replies...This was NOT taken from a "women" post, but this one: What's something you didn't realize the opposite sex did until you lived with them? The shaking is about a penis.
But now we know some women have a similar set of skills. Might I say the advanced edition
Load More Replies...I've shaken the dew off my lily when a many of times in the woods when I didn't have TP
Um... does your "girlfriend" also have a deep voice, and facial hair?
Absolutely not in a normal setting on a standard western toilet. But I have done a shake when I've had to use an Indian squat toilet or go on the side of the road for a pee. Doing a shake is basically just bobbing your bum up and down, while you're squatting, and hoping the tiny droplets of pee have fallen off.
Turns out women are incapable of putting a toilet seat down by themselves.
And I suspect it's because she is tired of your s**t...
Load More Replies...Is this another one confusing the seat and the lid? Why would a woman ever have the seat up? Both should be left down after use
But do make sure everything is flushed and there are no skidmarks left behind... so put the lid down, flush, put lid up to check, leave lid up. (is what I do.)
Load More Replies...Well you should be putting down the seat and lid when you flush anyway. Poop particles and germy water get flung at least 6 feet when an open toilet is flushed.
My wife would sometimes use my bathroom at night because it was closer to the bed. She'd complain about the shock of sitting down on cold porcelain. I replied, "What? You back into the bathroom with your eyes closed? I mean, what if I went into your bathroom and just started whizzing without checking to see if the lid (with its fuzzy cover) was closed or open?" This is one reason we're not married anymore.
Reading all of these has made realize I must definitely have OCD. I don't horde anything, I clean, I'm from Italy so splitting a bill in half is just normal, my parents taught us to leave something better than we found it, to appreciate efforts and respect others. As for the toilet seat, I put it down before even flushing, to avoid any nastiness to be released airborne.
I put down the toilet seat AND lid every time. WHY? Dogs. Dogs and Kids - that's why. Dogs and Kids, people. (and it's gross. close the lid- then flush eww)
You chose to touch it to lift it up, instead of sit. It is your duty to touch it to put it back down.
Women just leave everything wherever it is when they don't need it anymore.
This is annoying. It's not all women or even most women on most of these points. It's individuals
Ummm, that’s my husband and I complain constantly about it. Most girls want the stuff put back where it goes because everything has a place.
While guys may leave the seat up, girls never refill the f'n toilet paper rolls.
Oh, we do refill the toilet rolls. You haven't met the right person yet.
If I (the chick) don't refill the toilet paper rolls, they would NEVER get refilled. Same thing with paper towels, tissues, etc
I am a girl and I am the one who changes it every time!!!!! It seems that my man is incapable.
Not to be "that guy", but lets! Bored Panda, left leaning, progressive, woke site, and still you have a post with crazy generalizing language like this? Are all "women" equal? I mean, I recognize some of the stuff here, but there are actually women out there that doesn't care about decorative pillows and all that stupid stuff.
F*ck yes. What is this non-functioning towel stuff? I don't know a single woman who has those.
Load More Replies...The bras and periods stuff-- well, yeah, that's learning something new. But the "women, amirite?" generalization is harmful. It's like blaming women because you had a crappy girlfriend.
Women do the same thing to men ALL THE TIME, so honestly this just kind of evens it out a bit.
Load More Replies...How do people not know these things till they move in with a spouse/partner? They must have lived at home before. Families do the same things
My mother was a single parent and I have never had a brother, I learned a lot about male habits when moving in with a guy.
Load More Replies...The original post on reddit is OPPOSITE GENDER and not "women": https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8q8ko5/whats_something_you_didnt_realize_the_opposite/
So is the amount of effort you put into making a useful and/or interesting comment.
Load More Replies...i guess if the thread said "things men didn't know about THEIR women....blahblah" then it would be much less annoying to some people. I personally also feels very eye-opening, as a woman, reading these :)) I hope people don't really believe these apply to ALL women.
Funny how this deteriorated into female bashing. The first ones were interesting. Then not so much.
Not to be "that guy", but lets! Bored Panda, left leaning, progressive, woke site, and still you have a post with crazy generalizing language like this? Are all "women" equal? I mean, I recognize some of the stuff here, but there are actually women out there that doesn't care about decorative pillows and all that stupid stuff.
F*ck yes. What is this non-functioning towel stuff? I don't know a single woman who has those.
Load More Replies...The bras and periods stuff-- well, yeah, that's learning something new. But the "women, amirite?" generalization is harmful. It's like blaming women because you had a crappy girlfriend.
Women do the same thing to men ALL THE TIME, so honestly this just kind of evens it out a bit.
Load More Replies...How do people not know these things till they move in with a spouse/partner? They must have lived at home before. Families do the same things
My mother was a single parent and I have never had a brother, I learned a lot about male habits when moving in with a guy.
Load More Replies...The original post on reddit is OPPOSITE GENDER and not "women": https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8q8ko5/whats_something_you_didnt_realize_the_opposite/
So is the amount of effort you put into making a useful and/or interesting comment.
Load More Replies...i guess if the thread said "things men didn't know about THEIR women....blahblah" then it would be much less annoying to some people. I personally also feels very eye-opening, as a woman, reading these :)) I hope people don't really believe these apply to ALL women.
Funny how this deteriorated into female bashing. The first ones were interesting. Then not so much.
