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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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#1
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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#2
I didnt realize women paid so much for bras until I got married and also ended up paying too much for bras as well.
#3
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.
#4
That women have magically regenerating hair. Otherwise my girlfriend should be bald judging by the amount of hair she leaves around the apartment.
#5
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.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
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.
#6
Steal my hoodies then complain when I stole her bras.
#8
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.
#10
My girlfriend of a year had naturally curly hair that she straightened every morning. Never had a clue.
#11
My girlfriends burps are far more powerful than mine. I beat her in farts however.
#12
Take scalding hot showers. It's like the only use the cold knob has is to hold the body scrubber thing.
#13
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.
#14
It took me a while to figure out that pads are stuck onto the panties as opposed to right on the vagina!
#15
Get angry with me for what I did in her dream.
#16
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...
#17
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.
Julie C Rose 4 years ago
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.
Debbie 4 years ago
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...
Just saying 4 years ago
unless you forget to take out your last one. I did that once
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Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)
Some don't know where the pads go but this guy knows how often we need to change tampons? Impressive
Just JoLynn 4 years ago
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.
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Anna Chase 4 years ago
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.
Camilla Koutsos 4 years ago
Yeah, tampons absorb vaginal defence mucus too. That can allow bad stuff to get through.
Daphne Williams 4 years ago
When I was a kid, our neighbor died of toxic shock from leaving a super absorbent tampon in for too long. It happens.
DarkAngelNic 4 years ago
I thought I had toxic shock in college..it was just a panic attack :-/
IDGAFabtUrFeelings 4 years ago
I recommend menstrual cups and two reusable pads combo. Reduce wastage overnight. 6 years on and I still have the same products. Not once was I dried out or had a yeast infection. Not once.
Kazó-Horváth Dóra 4 years ago (edited)
For a week? Huh? Btw - too much info alert: I can't leave a super absorbent tampon in for more than 2-3 hours during the first days of my menstruation; their capacity limit is reached.
Katherine Heasley 4 years ago
Tampons do need to be changed regularly. I use a cup, which can be in place longer.
Naima Ivansdóttir 4 years ago
for A WEEK? do you realize people could smell you from MILES, right?
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
When OBI tampons first came on the market there was a wave of toxic shock cases in ERs. Because they were smaller than other brands young women would forget they had them in. They almost were banned but were allowed to stay with the addition of a warning label. And a note to men- you should always have at least one box of women's menstrual products around. It will earn you very good kudos some day.
Sarah Grape 4 years ago
and, get this, S is the largest size and L is the smallest! what the heck?
Sigrid Johanesdóttir 4 years ago
There's dangerous stuff inside the tampons, that's why pads or the cup are more safe
Stacy Rae 4 years ago
It's recommended to change them every 4 to 8 hours. 8 hours is a safe amount of time
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#18
I still don't know what she does with that weird rock thing in the shower.
#19
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.
#21
I did not realize that women had to pluck the hair out on their nipples. I was shocked!
#22
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.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
I'm impressed she owns more than two bras. Those f*****s are insanely expensive.
#23
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.
#24
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.
#25
"You don't use those towels, they're for decoration"....For who??
Auntriarch 4 years ago
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
#26
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.
rabbitsrabbit 4 years ago
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.
#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?
#29
Girls actually do that throw all your clothes on the bed thing that you see in sitcoms.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
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
#30
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.
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Um, that's not a "woman" thing. That's a "someone is mad at you" thing.
#31
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.
#32
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.
#33
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.
#34
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.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
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
#35
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.
S. Tor Storm 4 years ago
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?
#36
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.
#37
If anything they blast farts with greater intensity, volume and toxicity than us menfolk.
#38
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?
beastmachine. 4 years ago
Yeah, I literally have just over a dozen clothing articles and that includes all my shorts to my formals, guess am not alone
#39
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.
#40
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?
#41
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.
#42
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..."
#43
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."
#44
Actually "shake it" after they pee. I had no idea that was a real thing.
#45
Turns out women are incapable of putting a toilet seat down by themselves.
#47
While guys may leave the seat up, girls never refill the f'n toilet paper rolls.
Bianca Saville 4 years ago
Oh, we do refill the toilet rolls. You haven't met the right person yet.
What do you think ?
S. Tor Storm 4 years ago
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.
Fish Boden 4 years ago
F*ck yes. What is this non-functioning towel stuff? I don't know a single woman who has those.
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digitalin 4 years ago
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.
Computernaut 4 years ago
Women do the same thing to men ALL THE TIME, so honestly this just kind of evens it out a bit.
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Lorrie Rothstein 4 years ago
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
Kristal 4 years ago
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.
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Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
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/
Computernaut 4 years ago
So is the amount of effort you put into making a useful and/or interesting comment.
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invisible sheep 4 years ago
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.
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Funny how this deteriorated into female bashing. The first ones were interesting. Then not so much.
Franc Esca 4 years ago
Once again just makes me roll my eyes the privilege of how ignorant boys gets to be in life. Lucky you! Some of these were borderline shameful
GenericPanda09 4 years ago
Just how much toilet roll can one human need? jeeeeesus christ....... we're just two people....... we should not be going through this much. When covid started and I lived alone and the UK was in loo roll shortage I t hought to myself 'well i'm ok......... i got 8 rolls here... that's me in clover for a couple of months'......... but christ....... she can go through nearly a whole roll just taking off the eye makeup from one f****n eye
ivan bolitekurac 4 years ago
I don't see anything bad about this.I saw many articles/comments bashing men and christians.Of course,all getting upvoted because then it is no generalization.But i got heavy downvoted for stating numbers of killed people becuase of their faith.Yes,for people getting killed.So pls,i am sure that there are many things that woman also learned about men since they moved together.
Tigger 4 years ago
Why is this thread mostly about womens toilet habbits, do some people watch women whilst they are in the bathroom?.
ivan bolitekurac 4 years ago
After a few years living together,i guess you can guess what people are doing in the toilet
Load More Replies... Anna Chase 4 years ago
Pillows. I dont know about you but any pillow is free to use. Id store the pillows in a closet for guests to use when they sleep over.. just me though.
Davomir 4 years ago (edited)
1% of the bathroom counter its mine....toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant and nothing else.......the rest its hers! actually there's bottles of .....no one knows... that have been there since human dawn
BoredHuman 4 years ago
Funny how we never see posts about how shocked woman are to find out thing about men after moving in with them. Maybe because woman are not complete morons who still act like they are 10 living with mommy.
GqIce 4 years ago
Most women I know which includes my mom and sister, for some reason unbeknownst to us men complain about the toilet paper being put on the wrong way. Listen I put the toilet paper on how I put it on, it makes no difference to us men. Oh and no one other then the stupid spider under the toilet sheet meme can explain why it's so important.
S. Tor Storm 4 years ago
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.
Fish Boden 4 years ago
F*ck yes. What is this non-functioning towel stuff? I don't know a single woman who has those.
Load More Replies... digitalin 4 years ago
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.
Computernaut 4 years ago
Women do the same thing to men ALL THE TIME, so honestly this just kind of evens it out a bit.
Load More Replies... Lorrie Rothstein 4 years ago
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
Kristal 4 years ago
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... Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
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/
Computernaut 4 years ago
So is the amount of effort you put into making a useful and/or interesting comment.
Load More Replies... invisible sheep 4 years ago
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.
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Funny how this deteriorated into female bashing. The first ones were interesting. Then not so much.
Franc Esca 4 years ago
Once again just makes me roll my eyes the privilege of how ignorant boys gets to be in life. Lucky you! Some of these were borderline shameful
GenericPanda09 4 years ago
Just how much toilet roll can one human need? jeeeeesus christ....... we're just two people....... we should not be going through this much. When covid started and I lived alone and the UK was in loo roll shortage I t hought to myself 'well i'm ok......... i got 8 rolls here... that's me in clover for a couple of months'......... but christ....... she can go through nearly a whole roll just taking off the eye makeup from one f****n eye
ivan bolitekurac 4 years ago
I don't see anything bad about this.I saw many articles/comments bashing men and christians.Of course,all getting upvoted because then it is no generalization.But i got heavy downvoted for stating numbers of killed people becuase of their faith.Yes,for people getting killed.So pls,i am sure that there are many things that woman also learned about men since they moved together.
Tigger 4 years ago
Why is this thread mostly about womens toilet habbits, do some people watch women whilst they are in the bathroom?.
ivan bolitekurac 4 years ago
After a few years living together,i guess you can guess what people are doing in the toilet
Load More Replies... Anna Chase 4 years ago
Pillows. I dont know about you but any pillow is free to use. Id store the pillows in a closet for guests to use when they sleep over.. just me though.
Davomir 4 years ago (edited)
1% of the bathroom counter its mine....toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant and nothing else.......the rest its hers! actually there's bottles of .....no one knows... that have been there since human dawn
BoredHuman 4 years ago
Funny how we never see posts about how shocked woman are to find out thing about men after moving in with them. Maybe because woman are not complete morons who still act like they are 10 living with mommy.
GqIce 4 years ago
Most women I know which includes my mom and sister, for some reason unbeknownst to us men complain about the toilet paper being put on the wrong way. Listen I put the toilet paper on how I put it on, it makes no difference to us men. Oh and no one other then the stupid spider under the toilet sheet meme can explain why it's so important.
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