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 .
I didnt realize women paid so much for bras until I got married and also ended up paying too much for bras as well.
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.
That women have magically regenerating hair. Otherwise my girlfriend should be bald judging by the amount of hair she leaves around the apartment.
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.
Steal my hoodies then complain when I stole her bras.
When it's time for her to go to bed, it's actually time for us to go to bed.
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.
My girlfriend of a year had naturally curly hair that she straightened every morning. Never had a clue.
My girlfriends burps are far more powerful than mine. I beat her in farts however.
Take scalding hot showers. It's like the only use the cold knob has is to hold the body scrubber thing.
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.
It took me a while to figure out that pads are stuck onto the panties as opposed to right on the vagina!
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...
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 still don't know what she does with that weird rock thing in the shower.
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.
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
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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.
Lol; my wife loads the dishes backwards instead of starting from the right she starts from the left which causes the plates to lean into each other. It maybe my OCD or the reason she doesn’t understand my logic
Yeah, it's reverse in my house. I'm the dishwasher spaz. My husband is way better and I prefer him to do it so things get washed properly.
Absolutely! I hate when people don't rinse their dishes off well enough before sticking them in the dishwasher. that's one of my biggest pet peeves!
There’s an art to loading the dishwasher correctly, do it wrong and you’ll break something or worse, dishes won’t get cleaned properly
If someone wants to do the dishes for me, they can put them in anyway they want.
??? Huh? Here are my steps to how I load the dishwasher: 1, pick up a dirty plate. 2, stand back about 12 steps. 3, Throw plate into dishwasher.
See . . .I was right: dishwashers, towels, stacking dishes and even WASHING dishes . . . .there's your way and then there's the PROPER way and definitely not what you have been doing all your life.
Yea, I load the dishwasher following the manufacturers instructions and my wife empties it and reloads it
Yeah, my boyfriend loads it friggin’ wrong every time. Just throw everything in there and half of it won’t get clean because you block the sprayer
Maybe he puts the dishes in wrong so he doesn't have to do them
It took a year for my Asian gf to use it for more than just a drying rack.
I did not realize that women had to pluck the hair out on their nipples. I was shocked!
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.
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.
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.
"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 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.
Bobby pins and hair everywhere, suppose I will be okay if fallout happens
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?
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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
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
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.
Why is this thread mostly about womens toilet habbits, do some people watch women whilst they are in the bathroom?.
After a few years living together,i guess you can guess what people are doing in the toilet
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Why is this thread mostly about womens toilet habbits, do some people watch women whilst they are in the bathroom?.
After a few years living together,i guess you can guess what people are doing in the toilet
Load More Replies... 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.
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
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.
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.
