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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?

#1

30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them 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 .

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El muerto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

but then they'll ask...and there is only one right answer. "omg you look perfect!" or meet the "death ray" stare

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them I didnt realize women paid so much for bras until I got married and also ended up paying too much for bras as well.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them 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.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them That women have magically regenerating hair. Otherwise my girlfriend should be bald judging by the amount of hair she leaves around the apartment.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them 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.

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Samantha Lomb
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them When it's time for her to go to bed, it's actually time for us to go to bed.

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Caro Caro
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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WilvanderHeijden
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Id row
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, I would hate this. I love that I go to sleep before my husband. I like to watch tv for as long as I like as I drift off. Plus he's not a child, he can decide when he wants to go to sleep just like a big boy.

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Foxxy (The Original)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Really? That's ridiculous, you should go to bed when YOU want not what she dictates.

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Krásnoočko Zelené
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Porch Santa
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope I am my own person and I’ll be single and homeless before I have a bedtime again.

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MagicalUnicorn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i cannot fall asleep with somebody trying to sleep at same time, i need to be asleep first

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope. I want to watch a show or two on my own and do some word games on my ipad before I fall asleep!

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Derek Clark
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Valisbourne Spiritforge
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I usually go to bed hours before my wife does. She's a night owl, I'm a morning person.

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James016
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I go to bed earlier then my wife. That is mainly due to my workload at the moment so I am exhausted by 9.30 comes round. She comes up later

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Josy Bannon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do that too, didnt know this is a thing lol. I somehow feel very uncomfortable if my partner is still up when I try to fall asleep. Whereas he has no problem vice versa and even likes the sound of me getting ready to go to bed and instantly falls asleep to it.

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Kiran
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Guilty too. It’s an itch in my brain that if any of my family member is still awake I cannot sleep be it my husband or my kids.

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Robin DJW
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My husband and I have radically different sleep schedules. It works for us. We are still happy after 23 years.

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Eb
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not really a female thing. Both my make partners did this.

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Brendan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My wife does this. When she says, "Are you coming to bed now?" she means, "lights out."

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Mikkel Madsen
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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But...why? You're not siamese twins, a hivemind or something like that.

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SobyKay
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

really? I actually prefer to go to bed before my husband. Helps me get to sleep quicker b/c he's so spazzy & active trying to get to sleep 😐

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My SO and I go to bed when we want; we're just mindful of not waking the other up.

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Solidhog
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The amount of times I suddenly found myself sitting in the dark and the tv suddenly turned off because “she” was going to bed

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My O My
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always wait until it's his time to go to bed. No matter how tired I am. Does it make sense? No 😂, but I do it anyway

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Jos Tiguidou
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one. I've been living this. It's an unwinnable fight lol

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Marika Miettinen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a woman and a night owl, and I've had to deal with guys trying to make me go to bed when they do. I end up rolling around for hours if I do.

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Bob Belcher
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not all women do this. I'll usually got to be around 11 or midnight. My wife always stays uo till 2am.

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Pernille Dyre
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We inform eachother. Mostly because my sleep can be so deep and I get confused when he is not there.... and our dog is hopeless unless we inform him somehow!! 🤣🤣🤣

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Andrew
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Omg never knew this was a thing. My wife does the exact same thing. I can't understand why. If I go to bed she will happily stay up anywhere from 1-4 hrs watchting TV or reading. If she goes and I'm not ready she is insistent we both go. Really weird!

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Neill Powell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually, we're down the middle. If it's after 10PM generally we retire to Netflix in the room and eventually nod off (a clever playback setting will require you to click play at each next episode). Sometimes i nod off on the couch, sometimes she does but yeah unless someone is rocking a late night game, both off to bed at the same time.

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Momma Jess
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not currently with anyone (and enjoying every minute of it) but FFS I'm not going to make someone go to bed when I do and I damn sure won't be forced to go to bed when I don't want to. Hell, really the only things I ask are put things back after you use them and dry your damn feet some BEFORE you step out of the shower, nobody else wants to squish their feet on a cold soggy bathmat.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I go to bed first but he feels free to wake me up for sex at any time during the night. I tried to get him to come to bed when I go in but he's not ready yet. He doesn't get why I get mad.....

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Starlee87
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's the opposite in my house.... I go to bed when HE goes to bed

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DKS 001
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

no, I go to be alone. You come in when you do. Just don't plop down on the bed and jolt me awake, please.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Go to bed for a little nudge nudge wink wink wait till she's asleep and then go and chill downstairs with the dogs and watch the stuff she doesn't like.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't get that. I'm a night owl and am almost always the last one in bed.

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Jacqlyn C Weir
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I really feel for my hubs, because he has to live with this light sleeping insomniac.

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2 years ago

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MoreBrains
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not here! My wife and I are opposites! She goes to bed very late and gets up later...me, the opposite...except when... ;)

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Ivana
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My husband does this. I am reading, he gets done playing whatever game, means lights out. I have yelled at him a few times. I can see you are done, but I am not done until I finish the chapter so chill.

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KimberG
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not here, we go if we want to, sometimes together, mostly seperate.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have to go to bed, but then she keeps us awake by chatting until she falls asleep, then I'm left wide awake

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Tammy Bennett
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's the opposite in my house. If my husband goes to bed before I do and I want to stay up watching junk tv or playing on my phone, he doesn't like it and will ask when I plan on coming to bed. He says he can't sleep if I'm still up. If I go to be before him, I just say I'm going to bed and go. I don't expect him to join me unless he wants to.

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#8

30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them 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.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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)

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#9

30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them Women use a lot of toilet paper, ALOT.

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Vicky Z
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do we have to explain it again? Yes we pee and after we have to wipe and also we bleed!!! Helloooo!

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them My girlfriend of a year had naturally curly hair that she straightened every morning. Never had a clue.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them My girlfriends burps are far more powerful than mine. I beat her in farts however.

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#12

Take scalding hot showers. It's like the only use the cold knob has is to hold the body scrubber thing.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them 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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the stuff, all the cute little useless stuff. that has a perfect place and can never be moved without approval. the pillows have sometimes more rights that you

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them It took me a while to figure out that pads are stuck onto the panties as opposed to right on the vagina!

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them Get angry with me for what I did in her dream.

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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...

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Vicky Z
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's what's the lid is there for and i don't get why this is not common knowledge!

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them I still don't know what she does with that weird rock thing in the shower.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them 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.

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Vicky Z
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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!!

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them Had no clue I loaded the dishwasher 'wrong.'

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can assure you this is not just something that annoys ladies.

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I did not realize that women had to pluck the hair out on their nipples. I was shocked!

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them 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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm impressed she owns more than two bras. Those f*****s are insanely expensive.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them 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.

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Vicky Z
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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!

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them 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.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them "You don't use those towels, they're for decoration"....For who??

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them Bobby pins and hair everywhere, suppose I will be okay if fallout happens

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#28

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?

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Vicky Z
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sitting? And not spraying the whole bathroom maybe? Especially when you are tall!

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them Girls actually do that throw all your clothes on the bed thing that you see in sitcoms.

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Samantha Lomb
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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.

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