30 Husbands And Wives Share What Bizarre Things They Discovered About Each Other After Marriage
Living together is a momentous milestone in a relationship. It requires opening up and seeing each other for who you truly are—sometimes, in more ways than one.
Although it’s wonderful to share your space and spend even more time together, you might learn something new about your spouse when it comes to their behavior at home. A popular post on r/AskReddit highlights some of the weirdest things that people found out about their partners after getting married and living together. So, Bored Panda has collected the funniest and most bizarre stories.
Whether it’s strange, late-night habits in the bedroom (no, not those ones) or some questionable hygiene practices, it seems like starting married life isn’t all the bliss it’s made out to be.
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Occasionally my wife will sit straight up in bed, but she is dead asleep. The first couple times she did it I thought she was going to go to the bathroom or drink some water but she just sat there. I tried talking to her and when she didn’t respond I realized she was asleep. Horrifying.
I’m used to it now, so I just rub her back and quietly tell her “Lay down it’s time to sleep.” and she will lay back down. Apparently she reflexively punched her ex in the eye once because he didn’t realize she was asleep and he woke her up. Pass. Not getting punched by you beautiful creepy wife.
Ah love.
My husband has prowled the bedroom and said weird scary things. The first time obviously I had no idea he was asleep and he went and opened the bedroom door and came over and told me 'it's to keep them in' 😱
:D SOs saying weird and creepy things while asleep is such fun - as long as you're not right beside them, but just hearing those stories xD
Load More Replies...Husband has legit yelled "GET OFF THE LAWN" while sleeping, directly in My Face I was like, "Bro - Chill!!"
Every now and then my husband will be dead asleep and then sit straight up, point to a corner of the room, and yell "WHAT THE F**K IS THAT!?" and then immediately go to sleep.
My husband once tried to sell me a 1995 red Honda Civic while he was dead asleep. So often I recorded him doing it and played it back. His only comment was, "Yeah, but it's a great little car!"
My roommate years ago did a similar thing. Went downstairs to get coffee, saw him sitting on the couch staring at me. Asked if he wanted anything from the kitchen, and he just kept staring at me with this creepy look on his face... Then he started kicking his legs like a mad man, and I just ran. Turns out he has sleep paralysis occasionally... Not possessed!
My daughter also sleepwalks and sleeptalks. One day she sat up in bed at 3 am and shouted " Raise the flag! The pirates are coming! Where is the ship?" and then lay back down without even the courtesy of letting me know if we had survived or were now slaves or fish food.
I did this for years. I'd also stick one leg straight up in the air while asleep, sleep talk and sleep walk. Let me tell you, it's also bizarre to wake up that way and you require a lot more hours of sleep because your body isn't fully resting.
One arm in the air here. My grandpa used to do it too, I'm told. I also do others but my husband is such a sound sleeper I'm the one who wakes myself up trying to yell or kick.
Load More Replies...My husband loves the cat, taking her to bed every night, but he had had some years, where he woke up, yelled: "wo do not have a black cat" and tossed her out of the bed and stuff alike. So, I had times, where I woke up at every stir to secure the cat...
According to statistics from the US government, marriage rates in the United States are falling year upon year. The numbers indicate that millennial couples are choosing to live together, whilst delaying or even forgoing marriage altogether.
In a related 2019 study completed by the Pew Research Center, only 44% of millennials aged 25-34 were married at the time. This is contrasted sharply by the previous generations’ marriage rates in a similar age range: 53% of Generation X, 61% of baby boomers, and 81% of the silent generation.
My husband is terrible at finding things. It can be front and center at eye level in the fridge and he can't find it! I used to hide his presents by putting them in the open on a chair in our bedroom — I called it my 'super-secret' hiding spot.
I think it is true with most of us husbands. And then we panic when the wife says let me look for it because we know that she will find it in the most obvious of spots. The suspense when she walks in and searches for something you are 'certain' is not there is the stuff thrillers are made of.
Certainly my husband. It is usually as tough as; open cupboard or fridge door, move one item to the side and Ta-Dah! Hidden item *revealed* !!!
Load More Replies...I'll get downvoted for the generalization but that's all men everywhere!! Honestly i think I've never met anyone that can find staff without creating a drama
I know people that call it a "man's look". Now that's a generalisation lol.
Load More Replies...My husband: there is no ketchup in a fridge! Me: yes, there is. My husband: no, we have no ketchup. Me: do you want me to go there and show you? My husband: I found it!
Omg, my husband has gotten slightly better after my foot surgeries. "Don't make me get up!"
Load More Replies...This is why "have you seen my...?" is one of the most common questions in husbands
(Put it behind the milk. It's always safe behind the milk in our house...)
It coincides with changing attitudes to the traditions and ideals of marriage for the younger generations. Another important factor is the financial costs associated with getting hitched.
Millennials are well-known for their struggle of growing up in the aftermath of the 2008 market crash. Buying a house in this era may seem like an unachievable goal and when considering the costs of a wedding, it could be considered more of a luxury than a necessity.
Even with getting married, there’s also the risk and fear that if it’s unsuccessful, there will be the literal price to pay for the divorce. Marriage may not look like a fruitful investment for many, so a safer option may be to live together as a couple.
My husband has no off switch. If I'm not listening, he just talks to himself. He has full on conversation in the shower. He pauses YouTube videos in the middle to give commentary. He's pretty much only quiet when he sleeps, and then he snores! I love him to bits though. The house feels weird when he's not here chattering away.
That would drive me crazy after one day. It also seems like the type of thing you would notice even before being married.
Depends - might not have lived together before marriage or he might have hidden it. My dad hid the fact that he was a monumental sulker for before marrying my mum and then refusing to speak to her for days after their first 'married' row.
Load More Replies...My ex is a big talker about his job which he loves, he tells anyone he sees about it, even goes to meetings whilst he is asleep and chats away with his invisible co-workers, or hums away to himself.
I would have divorced or killed him a long time ago. That woman is a saint.
She talks in her sleep. And not like “I forgot milk”. Like “Do you think hot dogs are steak d***s?” or “COSMIC-SHEEP WHERE ARE THE FREAKIN BAGELS GO FIND THE BAGELS” (the latter said while staying at a friend’s mountain cabin forty five minutes from town at 2 AM).
Relationships are magical.
Fun it is! I was told that years ago, during my deepest sleep I once crawled slowly and carefully close to my then-SO just to whisper: “Would you like to be a kangaroo?” 😃
Load More Replies...My sister once recited the multiplication table in her sleep. It was interesting.
My husband also talks while sleeping. Sometimes he laughs so freaking loude that wakes me up. And most of the time he speaks in his native language (Portuguese) but I already heard him speaking in English a couple of times…
I got up, walked over to my mom (we shared a room at the time, that's how young I was), and said "Mom! You forgot the butterflies!!!" to her. All while I was asleep. I remember having a dream that me, my siblings, and my mom were all cyborg chickens, and my siblings were secretly doing super-hero missions. Once I caught them in the act, I asked if I could join them, and they put me into superhero cyborg chicken training (SHCT). Then my mom caught us in the act and joined us too. I was out of SHCT by then, so I got to train my own mom. I felt so cool and mature. Anyway, we had to defeat a bad guy with a whole bunch of little yellow butterflies, but my mom was supposed to bring them, but forgot them. That is, I think, where I got up and told her that she forgot the butterflies. I don't remember the rest of the dream if there was any.
Since getting pregnant I have started doing this, the other day I had a dream about doing CPR and woke up doing chest compressions on a pillow...
My wife does this. I use this state to extract information because she answers truthfully whatever I ask her. Haven't heard any shockers yet :-)
My sister revealed once that our uncle told her that "he thinks her books will succeed" and she shouldn't tell me. We both write. We both told him about our books.
Load More Replies...My bf talks in his sleep too. I always write them down. My favourite was the time he said "JUST EAT SOME DIRT, PFF!!" (In danish though "så æd noget jord, altså!") He also once yelled "WELL THIS IS A HORRIBLE TIME TO CALL!" Oh how I always laugh!
However, all this does not point to eliminating weddings altogether. As a result of postponement, the average age for a millennial’s first marriage is steadily increasing. In the 2019 study, the average man was first married at the age of 30. In comparison, the average was 26 years old in 1987, and 23 years old in 1968.
The choice for postponing marriage is often attributed to the need for financial stability too. By choosing to focus on their work and careers instead, many are just waiting for better conditions to start the rest of their life together.
HE EATS DEVILED EGGS WITH SUCH A FEROCITY. He will literally forget to take breaks in between eggs in order to breathe. ... he'll start freakin sweating...
My mother did not believe me so made some for him for Christmas and got to witness the horror first hand.
For context he's a pretty fit dude who eats most of his meals normally.
I just imagined a dude inhaling eggs at inhumane speeds XD
I saw a woman eating a scone like that about 15 years ago in a tea room in Cornwall. I still think about her sometimes.
Could easily have been me. I lived in Cornwall for 10 years and still eat scones and clotted cream a few times a week 😂 not healthy but sooo good. Don't even get me started on pasties 😋
Load More Replies...That's how I have always seen them, although not usually with so much paprika.
Load More Replies...er. so OP's saying...this isn't how you eat devil'd eggs? it is where i come from. if you don't eat them like that? one of those other people might get one...and that's just not acceptable.
She likes to walk around the house with one sock on and one sock off.
Sure, until you get old enough that it's hard to reach your feet and you have to sit down to do socks and shoes. Then sometimes once you've wrangled that foot up in reach, you just gotta do it all then switch.
Load More Replies...Deedle, deedle, Dumpling! Only with socks instead of shoes.
Temperature control! As someone with fibromyalgia I relate haha. I wonder if she's going through menopause?
I have pins in my one foot. I hate wearing socks but that foot gets so cold. As soon as you have that kind of surgery you have arthritis. So a fuzzy footy or a copper compression on one, nothing on the other. Even in public with a dress. I'm not as vain as when I could walk properly 😳
Load More Replies...Reminds me of the old TV show "All in the Family". Archie and Meathead having an argument about how to properly put your socks and shoes on. Meathead's response to "sock/shoe, sock/shoe" was at least you could hop on one foot without it getting wet. Pure comedy gold. Check it out!
When eating Oreos, she takes a mug filled with milk and places the Oreo in the mug, she then takes a spoon and scoops it out of the milk and eats the Oreo off of the spoon. Why else would God have given us fingers if not for using to dip Oreos I say?
Once when we were at my in-law’s home, she was eating Oreos this way and I started giving her s**t about it. Then I look around the room and see her dad, mom, and three sisters just looking at me; all holding their mugs of milk and Oreos with spoons to extract said Oreos from the milk. Foot, meet mouth.
Agreed. Only monsters eat Oreos dry or barely dunk them.
Load More Replies...Yes, me too. Works great! And no gross soggy, drippy fingers.
Load More Replies...That seems completely useless! If the cookie melts you cannot pick it up!
Load More Replies...Question! Oreos are pretty hard biscuits so does dunking them do more than make them damp? I can understand dunking certain biscuits in a hot drink, they absorb the liquid.
i put a bunch of oreos in a bowl with milk and eat it like cereal
Obviously where she learnt it from, but you may as well put them in a bowl if you're going to do that!
My husband takes his shirt off to poop, I'm not sure why.
Maybe he doesn't wipe well and wants to avoid a repeat of the poop on his shirt tail incident of '05
Hard stool results in sweating, which is why he might be taking it off. Therefore, you guys should probably just eat more soup if you want him to abandon the habit.
Came here to say this, the husband probably watched Seinfeld
Load More Replies...I only do this when my IBS is acting up severely coz I get hot flushes and sweaty.
Same here with my IBS!! Twice I've had "attacks" bad enough to have to take all my clothes off cause I'm cold sweating
Load More Replies...I wouldn’t know if my husband takes his shirt off to poop cause I. Don’t. Watch. Him. Poop.
Apparently my wife does not poop. We have been together for about 15 years and not once have I caught her cr*pping. It's disturbingly strange. Maybe she's an alien.
Hate to ruin this mystery up for you, but be prepared to have your mind blown… we poop. It just doesn’t take us an hour + to do so. It’s almost as fast as it takes to pee if we eat enough fiber and are hydrated. No fortress of solitude needed for most women :)
Folks were talking about pooping on Facebook: you know, like do you read or do puzzles or what. I said I’m in and out within a minute and they acted like I just arrived from Mars.
Load More Replies...They should check if there are any cats missing in the neighborhood (Alf reference)
Load More Replies...And even if we happen to, it's pink, glittery and smells like roses. ♡
Load More Replies...My missus and I are completely open about bodily functions - it’s only natural after all. We have a big box of matches on top of the cistern in case the stench in unbearable just out of courtesy for the next occupant.
Same here...I couldn't imagine it otherwise. Fart, burp, poop...we all do it and if you are gonna live with someone for the rest of your life...why not just get used to it and move along? NBD.
Load More Replies...Oh man...My wife will not willingly fart around me...20 years and I can count on one hand the times she knowingly did and I was aware of it. I say knowingly because she goes off like a pop gun in her sleep.teeheehee...Thing is, it wouldnt bother me if she did. Farts are normal biological functions, the same as poop,pee and period...and they're funny.
My husband actually thought I might have been unable to fart until after +10 years I farted dancing on the coffee table. The great thing is he completely forgot about that. We're at 19 years 😂
Load More Replies...my husband rarely passes gas and eats gassy food. And he gets all weirded out if I do. It was like it wasn't allowed in his family. So repressed!
Oh gawd, I would DIE! Many have said that breathing gives me gas, and that if I wanted, I could hover around on it.
Load More Replies...This. Or her rhythm is such that she has to do it in a public bathroom due to her daily schedules. For example, if one poops in the office every day, technically, their family will never catch them poop at home, except, maybe, on weekends and holidays.
Load More Replies...My husband was like this about farting and pooping. I am proud that he is comfortable enough with me to be the first person he farted in front of.
There are ppl that claim to only consume light. Maybe she is the other way. Could come in handy, if you need a flashlight...
Her shoes. Shoes in living room, shoes in the hall, shoes in the bathroom, shoes in the other bathroom, shoes under the kitchen table, shoes under the coffee table, shoes next to the coffee table, shoes in her trunk, shoes in my trunk. Shoes next to the bed, shoes under the bed, shoes on the bed. Shoes.
I have a question. I'm from a country where we don't wear shoes indoors (except indoor slippers). In american movies and tv-shows I constantly see people wearing their outdoor shoes indoors. Those of you who do that, when you for example go to bed or the shower, do you take the shoes off and then walk to the hallway to leave them there before going back to for example bed? And don't your feet get smelly after wearing shoes for so long? I know mine would 😂
I was friends with my husband for 16 years before we got engaged and moved in together...... I found out that he insists on sleeping fully clothed
Not like....a T-shirt and pajama bottoms
In his friggin jeans, shirt, even shoes
There may be some PTSD there. Sometimes, people who don't feel safe dress like they're ready to escape at any moment. Talk to your spouse. Figure out what's going on, and get them professional help if they're holding on to some really traumatic memories.
Yeah that seems too weird! Even shoes??? Something is wrong
Load More Replies...I spent a lot of time couch surfing and generally avoiding my home life in my teens and then I spent a couple years living in a van. To this day the easiest way for me to fall asleep is fully clothed and on the floor. I very rarely do it anymore. My girlfriend got me out of the habit when we moved in together.
True but I'm even more surprised at the shoes
Load More Replies...Clean bed linen, used (dirty) clothes... "we need to talk" is near.
Thant's exactly what I thought about... Does he undress? Or does he remain IN SHOES??))
Load More Replies...You had never stayed over before moving in?? That's dirty though, outdoor clothes in bed, ew!!
I thought the same unless he has specific clothes for the sleep!
Load More Replies...have you seen the michael mann film HEAT? 'be prepared to leave anything you can't take with you in a few minutes' is actually a thing some folks think. nowadays, sure, the first thing you think is ptsd, maybe war related. but there are other reasons possible too. you have asked him about it, OP?
When my husband goes out of town, I take a shower [before bed] get dressed in clean clothes, except for my shoes, and go to bed. We live out in the country and it just is a habit I got into. But otherwise, nightgown.
That sounds like you feel you need to be ready if something happens when you're alone.
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He rips paper towels in half and saves the other half. I collected them, wrapped them up, and gave them to him for Christmas. Yes, we used the other half, I'm not a earth-killing savage.
He gets out of the shower, struts into the room naked, and says, "OK, gotta go to work." Like, weekly. It's funny every time, I think that is the actual weird thing.
But they make paper towels that are perforated to tear off as smaller pieces. No need to tear the entire towel off anymore.
My mom, who is a germaphobe, drinks beer. A lot of beer. She's an alcoholic. She buys the beer, sprays the case/bottles with Lysol, puts them in the fridge, uses one paper towel to grab the bottle out of the fridge, one paper towel to pop off the cap. Then the paper towels go in the trash. Total waste. And she won't reuse them. I try to grab them and use them for cold bevvies or whatever I might need.
They actually make paper towels that can be cut in half. Like a little square
My spouse is worse, will tear them in half too. If she thinks it is clean after using it to dry her hand will leave the wet the paper towel like that on the counter or floor or wherever. Makes me crazy!!
I buy the paper towels that are half size.. And then rip them in half. (Yes I know some brands do quarter size, but the bad I prefer does not.)
My wife, the second day of us dating/living together, she was like, “Listen, I fart, okay?” And everything else has been smooth sailing ever since - 7 years later. I never suggest the parameters of our relationship to others.
My wife was the same. At the beginning of our relationship she told me she farts, gave me a example, and hoped I didn't have an issue with that. I fell in love with her at that very moment
My SIL was going to go the whole keep the farting to a minimum thing for the start of her relationship with my bro. Then he farted on her while cuddling. She Dutch-ovened him in retaliation and that was that.
Load More Replies...We fart competitively first thing in the morning - it’s much easier than speech at that time of day and infinitely more meaningful 😉
It's because we were taught to do it in private, not in front of others, because it is gross, people are ashamed 🤷♀️
Load More Replies...I dislike it when ppl fart, because they think it's fun. Like in a group of friends. I just don't like it. But when ppl fart and look startled/not intented, I'm totally okay. (Same with burping.) Then it's natural, but I dislike the intended ones. Sorry?
So knowing your body and feeling a fart coming is bad and not knowing your body and be surprised by your own bodily functions is good? I will take note.
Load More Replies...13 years later, I have yet to purposely fart in front of my wife. She can't say the same.
"dating/living together" This sounds like the same thing. They were living together since their first date.
My 15 year old niece used to sit on her boyfriends lap and sneak farts on him. She would start giggling before the smell even reached his nose so he knew to push her off his lap. They have been happily married for 15 years now.
If farting is a thing that breaks a relationship, I suggest you stay single, stick a bung in your a**e and wait for the explosion ......
My boyfriend just moved in with me about a month ago and he cannot close a drawer to save his life, I swear every time he takes something out of a drawer he forgets that it doesn't close on its own.
I was waiting for this! Does he leave the doors open too? I feels like that scene from The Sixth Sense every time I go into the damn kitchen
Oh God i hate that! Why is it so difficult to close the damn drawer!!
Load More Replies...My manfriend moved in a few months ago. I really wish I would have seen him stack a dishwasher before I let him move in with me.
I also leave cupboard doors and drawers open...... And I am female. I don't know how many times I have stood up and got the corner of a cupboard door make a dent in my head. Do you know that if you hit the roots of you hair hard enough they loose the ability to make colour. I have got several small patches of swhite hair now, in with the blonde
My wife makes sex noises while she sleeps. It's super cute and very funny to me. I didn't tell her about it until she went on a weekend trip with friends and she asked me about it after they said something.
burn level equal to surface temperature of the sun... 😈😂😂😂 I am about to open another account, so I can upvote your comment again
Load More Replies...I do it too. My husband loves it. I suspect he at the very least encourages it by caressing my butt. But that's fine with me, it helps me fall asleep when he does that, so he might as well enjoy whatever I squeal, moan or sigh in response.. 😜😂
Miss Sue Lynn Chan... Wanting sex doesn't necessarily mean wanting kids
Found out my wife bites into her popsicles with her front teeth like a psychopath
He likes to slap his booty when he gets out of the shower. He has a certain beat that he keeps and it is so very loud.
My wife sheds hair like a husky.
Really thick hair does this. I have a magnificent (in my opinion) mane of VERY thick wavy black hair and I kid you not, every shower I brush out at least one fistful of hair. Sometimes two if I haven’t washed it in a while.
Really thin hair does that too. It's normal for every type of hair. Most people just don't notice it. But if you have long hair, you'll see. I have long, thin hair. My hair is everywhere!
Load More Replies...Same! I don't get it. I could fill a duvet with her fallen-off hair, and the hair on her head is at the same healthy and thick.
Well my good man. Your wife is probably a husky. Can't blame you though. Dogs are pretty cute and fruffy.
My mom does too. You'll be walking in a totally random room and feel a tickle between your toes. You bend down and look to find--surprise!--a long, curly strand of dark red hair woven between your toes. :D anywhere you go. I don't care if you're literally standing upside-down on the ceiling, no matter where you are in this house, you will find at least a few of her hairs.
You shed too, Buddy, only yours are shorter. And all over, if you’re relatively hirsute. Take a good look at your sheets after you slept on them a few nights. Your chest and leg hairs will make them look like fur pelts. Also, check the drain after you take a shower. Your shorter head hairs will be there, just like her longer ones. My hairy husband tried to pull, this s**t when we were first married, until I showed him just how copiously he sheds.
Yep. Guilty of this one too. Of coruse, HE sheds heavy, too, so thank God we never had kids, they'd have looked like Cousin Itt
My wife sheds too, she has a nervous habit of then twisting the hair into little hairy fuzz balls and discarding them on the floor, we call them "Mummy Spiders".
He blows his nose into his towel and then dries off with it.
But I'm the crazy one for refusing to share a towel.
He then ALWAYS hangs the towel over the shower curtain rod so I have to move his booger towel to shower. Sometimes boogies fall off into the tub and... Just yuck, dude.
11+ years of boogers.
Even sharing a towel if he didn't do this would be unhygenic. Deal- breaker right there.
Load More Replies...Was going to post the same thing! This is a solid deal-breaker for me! Vile!
Load More Replies...Sharing towels is not recommended anyway but this is gross!!! Simply disgusting and the fact that he finds it okay is more disgusting!! Would be a turn off for me
Have you tried asking him to stop doing that? Perhaps leave a tissue box next to the shower for him to use instead?
Did you know it is possible to fold a fitted sheet? Mind. Blown.
Yeah, you just roll, scrunch and put it in the cupboard. That's my kind of "folded".
It's quite straightforward really. You take the corners that would be at the top of the mattress and fold using those, so the side parts are not getting in the way.
Yeah, but they fight back the moment you try to fold them in half!
Load More Replies...Mom made all 5 of the kids in my family learn this... felt like child abuse.
I saw a youtube video about how to do it. Did it once, and then never again. Fitted sheet still goes in the drawers as a bundled mass of cloth.
Of course! You roll it up and put it on top of the matching flat sheet and then slip them inside the matching pillow case. BAM! Your entire sheet set is stored together in one nice, neat package.
I do fold mine by nesting the corners in, but I never get them particularly neat, so I put all the sheets for the set in one of the pillow cases, like you do. Then they go into a bin in the closet. I can fish out a new set easily when I need it, and I don't have to worry about whether they stack neatly on the shelf.
Load More Replies...my husband of 20 years has just informed me and shown me! What valuable piece of knowledge will this replace in my brain…
I dont fold sheets. I wash, dry, and them replace them on the bed once a week.
My wife brushes her teeth, goes pee. Comes to bed. We talk for 20 mins. She gets up, goes pee. We talk for 5 mins because she thought of something in the bathroom. I turn over, close my eyes to go to bed.
I hear the toilet flush, and she gets back in bed.
This repeats until she falls asleep provided that there's been no more than 5 minutes since she last went pee.
Same. Bladder must be fully empty before sleep.
Load More Replies...I so this too!!! Wow - I thought I had a really small bladder and strange late-night pee habits but I am ONE OF MANY!!!
I had a partial hysterectomy about 15 years ago. When you have an organ removed, your other organs shift a bit because of the empty space. Something must have shifted to where it sits on my bladder, somewhat dividing or constricting part of it, because now when I pee, the majority comes out easily, but I have to contort myself to get that last—-I don’t know, half a cup?—-of it to come out so I can finally feel empty. If I don’t, then the urge to go never goes away, and I’m back in the bathroom again and again until I’m finally empty.
I hope you've consulted the doctor atleast once about this as this is a consequence of the removal.I hope you're okay.
Load More Replies...Omg I do this too!! and all of you people who think there's something 'wrong' have no idea .. If I have to pee at all then I just lay there thinking about how I'm going to have to wake up in an hour or two .. so really it's just more efficient and less disturbing to my night if I get up and pee one more time! So glad I'm not alone in this pre-sleep ritual
I broke my ankle and had to wake my husband up every time I went to the bathroom using a scooter. I went every half hour or so and the poor guy had to get up.
Load More Replies...It's very bad for you to constantly do little bits of pee, weakens your bladder control
believe me, it's not a choice....some of us this just happens as we age....some sooner than others.
Load More Replies...This is me! Lol it's like I have to make sure bladder is empty before I fall asleep, any little disturbance and I am off to the bathroom.
I thought it was because I am old and put on weight.
Load More Replies...It could be a psychological thing, if she wet the bed as a child it could have caused some trauma.
She may be feeling some anxiety about making it all the way through the night without peeing. It seems that, from the bit of context available here, once she goes to sleep she doesn't have the need to pee until she gets up, so it might be linked to anxiety. I know someone who is like this whenever they have to go anywhere, even to the store, but when they are home they are fine.
My wife is incapable of keeping track of small, important items (like her keys, wallet, or cell phone). If it can be lost, she WILL lose it, usually for several days. Even after ten years of marriage, I am still amazed at her ability to do this.
I have kept an extra set of my wife's things with me for the last 30 years of marriage, let alone her giving me the original straight away as soon as she uses it. I swear, it's one of the main things that has kept our 30 year marriage so great. She so badly needs me, we both badly need each other, everything in the relationship gets fixed immediately. That peck on the cheek when I have it for her, is what every marriage needs.
That is such a sweet, patient thing to do. :-)
Load More Replies...Me too. I bought a tracker for my keys and I have to say, money has never been more well spent.
She may have ADHD. This is one of the hallmarks, especially in woman, who do not typically come across as hyperactive, but are instead very absent minded.
I know what you mean about pockets-they are great! But this will not help. It is about the person's...temper, I guess. My husband forgets and looses things all the time. I remind him about everything, sometimes he gets annoyed by my reminders, says he has everything under control and in two minutes he announces I have to bring him his keys/wallet/cell phone cause he forgot to take it...
Load More Replies...I bought my husband a Tile so he doesn't lose them anymore. he loves it!
I have ADHD and loose EVERYTHING... I call it my magic trick cause I will literally have it in my hand then in a split second it's gone when I find said item I scream 🎉🤦🏻♀️ worst place I lost my phone in the dish washer 😬
Keys and wallet have their pockets, phone can be found as long as there's charge. Android Device Manager FTMFW!
My husband freaks out if he sees me plucking my eyebrows. Like, “OH MY GOD! How do you DO that to yourself!?” Every time. But he won’t look away when I do it. He’ll just cringe with each pluck.
I enjoy being plucked. I get my wife to do my eyebrows, chest and nipples. Most relaxing thing there is!
Load More Replies...Yeah, its like a train wreck...you dont wanna look but you cant help it.
Men on pain: A hangnail, paper-cut, burn, or small cut = a whinging toddler. Whilst a partially severed limb = Hey hon, grab the first aid kit, yeah.
I get ingrown eyelashes. It hurts like hell to pluck them. I barely feel eyebrow hairs.
SO never tweezed (she never says plucking because "plucking is what you do to chickens") her eyebrows until after a conversion with my sister sometime after we were married. I could shoot my sister because my SO had beautiful naturally shaped eyebrows. I've been telling her for decades to stop and let them grow back, but she keeps engaging in this pointless "beauty routine". Don't know who she's trying to impress because it sure isn't me.
My husband will fall asleep in the most awkward and uncomfortable positions. Like he will stay up on the couch playing a video game or watching TV while I go to bed. He will then fall asleep on the couch but not lying down or with his head on the back. He will contort himself into a human pretzel and sleep. And he has no idea why his back and neck are so messed up all the time.
Same, we paid crapload for a bed that's good for his back, then he pretzels out on the sofa on regular basis...
That's me! Spent money and time to find the perfect mattress when i knew i would be sleeping in the couch anyway
Load More Replies...My husband once fell asleep kneeling in front of the couch with his upper body splayed across the couch and my lap. Weirdest thing I've ever seen.
She always laughs about how I use specific kitchen items for specific tasks, like certain bowls are only for cereal, and certain cups are only for drinking water. Of course, I am also amused at her insistence on the "correct" organization of her side of the closet and within the drawers of her dresser. I never knew how many different categories of blue jeans existed before I met her.
I bet your house if extremely organized with the both of you there
She has a point actually. Traditionally most plates are designed for specific things. It also keeps the smells from contaminating. My mother does this.
I'm the same, I have my specific cereal spoon. God forbid anyone should have used it...!!!
I hate when my husband drinks soda or water out of a mug but I hate it more when he brings me a cold drink in a mug.
i had a gf i used to (purposely) drive crazy by going to get a drink of water and using a measuring cup or something. "That's not a glass!" works the same as a glass, though. Bonus tip: you feel elegant AF drinking out of a bud vase
She's afraid of the dark, not just like a random, dark, creepy, haunted-looking building but to the point where if she is alone she has to sleep with a night light or if the hallway is dark, she needs me to walk with her.
I also sleep with night light! Many people do! I think it's how you are used to! My mum used to put a light for us when we were kids so now i cannot sleep without one
It very much is what you are used to. We had night light as children though my partner was used to the total darkness. I got used to it - but then got a dog who would sleep on random patches of the floor (despite having her own lovely bed that she would snooze in during the day). When I accidentally kicked her a couple of times in the night we got a small night light so that we could see where she was sleeping!
Load More Replies...It's the chests of drawers and up until I changed it, the wooden bed frame, that I'm afraid of. They really hurt when you smack into them on the way to and from the loo in the night!
Load More Replies...Nothing worse than waking up in the middle of the night and seeing aliens at the foot of your bed.
I was disappointed the last 4 years I woke up and didn't see aliens at the foot of my bed. Even other galaxies heard how bad earthlings are.
Load More Replies...Some people prefer the light, some people, like me, prefer the darkness. Nothing strange about any of it.
I can’t bear total darkness, I feel like I can’t breathe, but in an urban area it’s never really that dark
I sleep with a night light because I'm very afraid of the dark. I have terrible anxiety and always fear what could be there...
I tried sleeping in the dark but I’m prone to hallucinations before I’m fully awake. I saw some scary stuff half awake and it’s a big nope for me. I can walk around my house in the dark just fine though.
I'm scared of the dark too. And I always sleep with a light on. Can't otherwise.
Women use a lot of toilet paper.
A CR*PTON.
Yup, well we can't just give a little shake and be done with it. Plus we have periods.
Exactly! Why is it so difficult to get that? And by the way I've met two men in my life that were using tons of toilet paper!! No idea what they were doing but they were using much more than me
Load More Replies...Agree, it's weird to me that it's common to just have pee on their pants. Men's undies even have extra layer in front of the peen for absorption.
Load More Replies...Because we never thought about it prior to living together. I was also surprised at how much my wife uses when we first moved in with each other. I wasn't upset or anything, just rather surprised.
Load More Replies...I won't mention names, but one of my grown ass male family members JUST found out that women have to wipe when they pee, as well as when they poop.
My son asked me this once, why girls use more tp than boys. I told him because we have periods and indoor plumbing. We can't just shake it and go on our way. He had a look of disgust and horror. I may have scared him a bit. Lol!
I have the exact opposite experience - I am constantly amazed at the amount men use up
He likes to sleep with pieces of tissue in his ears cause he believes his ears leaks wax. I've never seen them leak. Kinda found it gross at the start of the relationships but 7 years in I just pick up those tissue bits up from our bedroom ground and it's doesn't even bother me.
Hocks in shower and that does bother me. A girl has limits.
Because there’s earwax contamination, of course.
Load More Replies...Hocks up phlegm from drainage in his throat and spits it out in the shower.
Load More Replies...Where is he supposed to do it? some people have allergies and and good nose wash and blow throat clear goes a long way. the best place is the shower
Ears secrete wax, so he's right. However, the amount is barely visible, so he doesn't need the tissues. It's more 'visible' at night as you're lying down and facilitating drainage. Google cilia and earwax if you don't believe
My ex had like the worst smelling belly button ever. She used come home after a long day of work and that thing would reak of rotten cheese and meat. No joke I could smell it across the room.
Belly buttons are like armpits..they don't smell if you wash them..
True...but this also sounds like a yeast infection. We have bacteria in our bellybuttons, but we also have plenty of yeast...which stinks. That "rotten cheese" smell or "moldy bread" smell are both pretty characteristic of epidermal yeast overgrowth.
Load More Replies...omg she's breeding bacteria in there. Need to wash, just like between your toes.
I never understood people who don't do that, it's so gross. A friend once admitted to me when he was drunk, that he lets his toenails grow long, doesn't wash his feet until the toenails are the "right" length, clips them and smells them. Takes a big ol' whiff. I almost ended our friendship over it :-D I jest, of course but I always feel sorry for his girlfriends for when they'll inevitably discover his beastly habit.
Load More Replies...That's just revolting, you obviously should NOT be able to smell it from across the room. Eugh, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. Is that the reason she's an ex? It would definitely be a deal breaker for me. Utterly vile.
Some people are full-on gross. Did she not clean it in the shower? If it smelt like that then there's something wrong!
This is where you use those Q-tips to dig stuff out. Works best after a shower when the stuff is damp.
What stuff 😂😂😂?!?? We re not supposed to have stuff in there if we wash properly 🤣🤣 omg 🤣
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Wife will change clothes 3 times a day. Get up puts on her running around sweats, gets dressed for work, comes home changes into her casual clothes. Then fuss about how much laundry she has.
I get up get dressed for work and I'm done, might change shirts if you go someplace after work.
Excuse me but that's normal! Exercise clothes, work clothes and home clothes! You are the weird here that wear the same so you have less laundry!
AND thats why womens clothes last longer. Because we don't wear the good ones just around the house.
Uhm... duh? Especially the work to casual change is normal. I'm not wearing my nice clothes with 2 dogs and 4 cats (and dinner...). I'd like to keep those clothes nice. For work.
Depends on how long it is between getting up and getting dressed for work to determine weirdness quotient of the first change. If she is making dinner or cleaning up she wouldn't wear nicer work clothes, or changes just for comfort. My husband is comfortable in his jeans from morning until bedtime. I cannot.
So you wear the same clothes to work in, exercise—-and sweat profusely—-in, and relax in? You must stink to high Heaven. Changing your shirt isn’t enough. Balls and ass cracks sweat and stink too.
He thinks it's a 'weird personality quirk' that I want to sleep on the same side of the bed every night. He teases me for it.
I thought this is pretty normal to sleep on the same side every night. I think your partner is the weird one lol.
I thought this was normal too. But im not sure at this point.
Load More Replies...We have our own bedside tables, with our own stuff in them, our own decorations on top, and our name plates from our wedding just to top it off, having "your side of the bed" is perfectly normal and sensible, he's weird for not having one
Right? Of course you have to sleep on the same side every night!
Load More Replies...But but but what about the things in/on the nightstands? For that reason alone you must pick a side.
Yeah, changing sides is definitely not the norm. We both have our own stuff in our nightstands and when either of us gets up at night to go to the bathroom, we'd trip for sure if it's from a different side of the bed all the time.
But the same couple staying at a motel - and it could become a different story, or a lightly amended one. (What does that even mean?)
I used to sleep on the right side of the bed, When he had his hip surgery, he had to sleep on the right side of the bed to make it easier for him to get up in a morning. Now he doesn't want to swap back.
Around guests or in public he eats totally normal and politely.
At home he goes full caveman. It's like that scene in Beauty and the Beast when he eats the porridge.
I once read an advice column like Miss Manners that said table manners exist to make fellow diners comfortable, and you're not obligated to eat with proper table manners when you're alone. I hope when this couple eats together, he uses manners for the spouse's sake, and it's just when he's gets walked in on when he was totally alone that he was found to be a caveman.
Mine goes full caveman no matter where he is eating. It is embarrassing.
He chews soft foods... ice cream, jello, and you can hear it from across the dam house.!
The sounds of chewing makes me so freaking angry - I go in the other room when my wife is making those chewing sounds. misophonia?
All food should be chewed. How do you eat soft food? Shallow whole chunks of them?
You sure he’s chewing them, or is he maybe just moving them around his mouth, which looks like chewing but isn’t?
I do that moving soft food in mouth thing. Specially jello, I love squishing jello thru my teeth. Drives wife nuts.
Load More Replies...My husband is the same. It really winds me up. I actually hate him every time he eats.
Maybe ice cream but Jello? To back up my ice cream it may have pieces of other foods in it, like Rocky Road does.
My husband stands in the shower for a good ten minutes without doing anything. I think he falls back asleep standing up.
My hubby has a really stiff back in the mornings so he will stand in the shower for some time just to relax his back.
Same, with the warm water running. Really helps to loosen up stiff joints in the AM and relax muscles before bed in the PM.
Load More Replies...Mine does this too. I think they stand there and enjoy the water hug before the demanding day starts.
My wife complains about how long my shower is - I liken it to her taking a bath. It is my quiet time.
My husband does this s**t so he can't shower before me cause he uses all the freaking hot water.
My husband eats finger foods with a fork. Pizza? Fork. Chicken nuggets? Fork. Fries? Fork.
I fully agree. I would never eat pizza without fork and knife.
Load More Replies...No such thing as "finger food". The human species went through ages of development so that we, today, don't have to get messy to eat.
Millions of non western folks will disagree with you.
Load More Replies...My brother eats everything with a fork too. He hates getting dirty/greasy hands. It's a sensory thing for him.
Depends on where I am, what I’m wearing (I refuse to risk getting pizza sauce or grease on my nice clothes, damn it, especially in public), who I’m with, and just how messy the food is.
It's more practical than you'd think! Keeps your fingers clean, and prevents you from getting burned by the food.
HOT pizza? Fork (fingers when it cools some). Chili cheese (or loaded) fries? Fork. Anything I'm liable to get my fingers beyond napkin cleaning dirty, fork.
My husband cannot clean his ears without coughing. He is also extremely particular about q-tips. He keeps them in a sealed container and will not use the same one on both ears and will not use it if it's touched anything outside of the q-tip box.
You shouldn't clean your ears with those, you can actually cause some damage.
The cough is due to Arnold's nerve cough reflex. Basically the q-tip is stimulating the vagus nerve in the ear which produces a cough reflex.
If he's coughing, he's pushing too deep with the thing! The cotton heads can come off, you can cause damage, and you can even push wax further in with them!
Who on earth uses the same q-tip for BOTH ears? I need both ends for one ear and then it's not even clean. Obviously I'm not using them, covered in reddish brown goo, on the other ear as well. EEEW. Also, be careful and don't push the tip in the canal. Gently twist them while going around the edge of the canal, so you don't push the goo deeper inside.
Stop using q-tips just get some otex ear drops it'll remove all of the wax safely. Brown wax is old wax, the wax you've been pushing back into your ear. Your ears naturally clean themselves and the wax slowly moves forward out of the ear when your jaw moves like when eating or talking
Load More Replies...That phenomenon is called Arnold's ear-cough reflex (named after a 19th century German researcher), and it is due to an unusual branching of the Vagus nerve. It's pretty common - about 25% of adults do it.
Q-tips can break the skin and cause an infection. I now use a rubber syringe. Squirt warm water in gently and wait a few minutes for the wax to soften. Use more warm water to rinse until it feels right (you can hear better). If you have an ear infection, buy some iodine from a drug store and squirt a small amount (teaspoon, 1-2 ml) in your ear and let it sit for about 10 seconds. Plug your ear with a finger and move/shake your head around to let the iodine spread, then rinse. It's messy at a sink, so i prefer doing this in the shower.
If you have an infection you shouldn't use anything except specific antibiotics. This is due to the proximity of the brain and the risk of the infection getting into the bloodstream and traveling there.
Load More Replies...That she pisses like a racehorse in an echo chamber. Do all women pee in such a deafening manner?
We can yes. It takes effort to do it quietly, you have to point the stream at the wall but at a certain angle and you really have to restrain yourself to let it trickle instead of racehorsing it. Some of us can hold multiple liters too if need be. I say: celebrate your healthy champion!
and then you end up splattering everywhere. Center stream for the win!
Load More Replies...I'm pretty sure women pee at a much faster flow (which is also why it takes less time), but it's into a toilet bowl that's being sat on, how exactly do you expect it to sound?
Women urinate with more pressure than men. Put simply Men have long narrow pipes, women have short wide pipes. My wife is a super pisser, she is never on the toilet for more than 30 seconds. She get the raving hump when she's waiting for me to finish one of my 4 minute marathon wees.
I'm a woman and I do not pee like that. Mine is a quiet, lazy stream. I am always amazed when I'm in a bathroom stall next to someone and they open up Hoover Dam.
My wife's peeing sounds like a Space X rocket launch and shakes the whole house!
Sure. Hold my hand, I'll take you to the next post with different conversation.
Load More Replies...I honestly didn't know people farted in their sleep. Not judging, don't really care - I just didn't know that until then.
Is there a time schedule for farts? Like business hours, half day on weekends and holidays?
Monday, Wednesday and Friday - between 4 and 8pm. Those are my scheduled fart times. Sometime I get crazy and fart on a Saturday.
Load More Replies...Oh, my husband can fart so forcefully I swear he lifts off the bed. When it’s really bad (just within the first hour he falls asleep), I move to the spare bedroom to sleep without having to smell his noxious exhaust fumes.
You've obviously never been on a redeye flight. You'll hear poots squeezing off all over the plane after everyone falls asleep. Good way to get pinkeye is to take a redeye!
My husband does NOT like "chunks" in his chili or spaghetti. He also climbs up on the roof when he gets sad or scared, prefers to pee while sitting down, has daydreams about chopping wood while shirtless, and sometimes jacks off on my Frozen t-shirts. Oh, and he eats candy in his sleep.
Peeing while sitting down is healthier because it empties the bladder fully and prevents infections.
I like how you just picked the thing that didn't spark a "wtf?"-response to comment.
Load More Replies...He never progressed past 14 and never will until menopause sets in and perhaps not even then.
Load More Replies...I honestly thought he put her t-shirts in the freezer til I read the other comments. Duh!!
Same. "Who puts their shirts in the free...oh wait. Oh, no no. Oh, that's much worse."
Load More Replies...Not sure which is worse, that you have Frozen shirts as an adult, or that you don't put your husband in therapy for doing that on them...WTAF?!
I am wearing my Elsa tank top while reading this article. I am 34. Nothing wrong liking Disney movies as an adult when you grew up with them as a kid.
Load More Replies...Why is he jacking off on your clothes? And you’re sure it’s only on those tee shirts?That’s freakish and creepy.
Honey, I think you need to find someone more mature.
Uhhh... I am sure he has other qualities that offset these habbits?
My boyfriend refuses to do his studying or any paperwork at his actual desk. It is piled high with papers and books. Instead he does all his work at the pool table so he can be near the kitchen.
Maybe he needs a bigger desk? Some desks nowadays are pretty small and cramped, and if you have a laptop on it, there’s very little room to spread out your books or papers.
The man is capable of consuming SO MUCH peanut butter. I have never in my life had to purchase peanut butter this frequently.
I recently discovered how awesome peanut butter is, especially for breakfast with a banana on the side. I confirm, its an amazing combo, and have been eating way too much, like a 400gr jar in 3 days sometimes.
Time to get a Costco membership. Or Sam's Club. They sell peanut butter in HUGE sizes. Cheap, too.
Try avoiding the ones with hydrogenated oils. Very bad for you. But the others are great and actually taste better then the unhealthy ones. Only problem is the ones without the hydrogenated oil need to stored in the frig once they’re open. Makes it hard to spread. Love my peanut butter. 👍🏻♥️
If you're thrifty, you can get a 55gal drum of peanut butter for $100.
He’s a remote hog and to make matters worse, he has to constantly flip channels. By the time you get into a show, he changes the channel. I stopped watching tv when we’re in the living room together and I’m usually on my laptop or my phone. He then gets mad that I don’t watch tv with him and that I’m on my laptop or phone.
Mine is even more strange...the tv volume MUST remain on an even number. If I turn it up to "27"...he grabs the remote and flips it up or down one notch. The only exceptions are if it is a odd number, but a multiple of 5. So I can turn it up to "15", but not "19"....he is SUCH a weirdo and I tease him all the time about it...and may or may not intentionally leave the volume on "29" when he is not around. lol
I have rather extreme OCD (diagnosed, not just someone calling a quirk or eccentricity an obsession or compulsion), and one of my triggers for it is groupings, numbers, and counting. I've been working on it, but everything has to be in groups of 3. Volumes are set to multiples of 3, I count stairs, and if the total isn't a multiple of 3 I have to go back down or up to make it so, etc. I even have to fold my laundry in thirds. If I don't/can't, its worse than nails on a chalkboard. All I can think about is the "wrongness" of it all to me, and eventually I give in and fix it. Example: it can take me more than 30 or 45 minutes to fold my sheets because of the "perfect" I have in my mind, and usually winds up with me breaking down in tears of frustration and not ever folding them. The worst part of it is that I know it's irrational, I know it's detrimental to my life, but I just can't let it go.
Load More Replies...Just buy a universal remote so you can switch back to what you were watching. Problem solved.
Have you told him why? Try doing the same thing with the remote. He may not even realize how annoying it is.
I can so relate to this except my hubby doesn't get mad if I'm not watching TV with him.
My ex would spend hours watching trailers. I'd go, that looks good, lets watch it and he would continue to watch trailers for a couple of more hours.
My husband has to bootcamp style clean EVERYTHING and roll his clothes bootcamp style. Hes a redneck country boy type but was sent to bootcamp and some of it is still drilled into his head. The whole Yes maam, No maam, Yes sir, No sir thing...His basic stance. All military boot camp.
TBH, consider yourself lucky he’s fastidious. He could’ve been a slob that you have to clean up after.
And you are complaining? Better that than the opposite - just dropping clothes everywhere and never bothering to pick them up, or simply stuffing clothes in a drawer, then complaining about the wrinkles.
I sense no complaining. It's a very neutral statement of something she learned about the guy.
Load More Replies...I guess not weird, but a lot of people do it, but anyways my wife likes to pee in the shower. Especially when I'm in the shower with her.
I understand why people find this gross. However, you might be interested to know that _fresh_ pee is germ-free (unless you have an infection). If you have an injury with dirt in it and don't have water available, rinse it out with pee to avoid an infection. Pee also kills athlete's foot fungus, and kills mold in the drain: If your shower smells like mildew, try peeing there for a day or two.
and it flushes into the same system that the toilet uses.
Load More Replies...100% normal as having running water on you when you need a wee makes you have to do it. It goes down the plughole straight away, so it's no big deal.
Yeah, I was about to say that this sounds less like a quirk and more like a... preference
Load More Replies...When I got some foot fungus a doctor told me to pee over my foot and it would cure. I peed over my foot and it was cured in 2 weeks.
next time try doing a distance competition but nobody uses their hands. Bet she wins!
Uhm, no problem on the first part, but 'especially' while you're in there with her? Eew.
This. As long as I`m the only one using the shower - fine. Plus the advantages mentioned above. But with other people and not both liking this kind of thing? nope.
Load More Replies...Same, and I only learned that people pee in the shower a few years ago. It never even occurred to me, because PEE GOES IN THE TOILET, NOT ON MY FEET.
Load More Replies...And all these years I’ve been wasting mine, when I could have been medically helping people everywhere.
I pee in the shower. It's a normal thing. You are in there to get clean any way.
We like to hang our toilet paper rolls in opposite directions. Sometimes we have petty disputes where we switch the orientation of the toilet paper roll back and forth because we both believe we are correct.
We did that. After 15 years I won and he puts it on my way - paper over top
Install a second dispenser, one for each of you.
If you can't cope with that, try a prong dispenser. dsb-03-toi...6e5cdf.jpg
This is a pet peeve of mine. If I go to someone's house and there's is put on to pull from underneath then I have to change it. But most of my friends know I'm a weirdo luckily! :P
Beard are cool, mullets are bad. But this all changes when you have a cat.
Not married yet but my fiancé sometimes eats certain fruits with the peel still on. Or eats cucumbers without slicing them. He just...holds a cucumber and takes a bite out of it.
Pretty sure with most fruits you're supposed to eat it with the peel?
I'm guessing they mean oranges, bananas, that sort of thing?
Load More Replies...What even is normal when it comes to how you eat your food? Just enjoy it folks.
Load More Replies...You'd hate me, then. Bellpepper, cucumber, tomatoes... monch monch
In my country this is pretty normal...but we have a lot of cucumbers from our gardens and the peel is as good as the rest, until the cucumber is too ripe, then the peel is bitter.
My husband laughs at me when I eat cucumbers whole or sliced into large spears.. Why cut into little slices if I plan on eating the whole thing?
Cucumbers in the US often have a wax coating. Should be cleaned off or cucumber skin peeled before eating.
When I start talking to her I will eventually have to repeat myself because her ears don’t turn on until halfway through the sentence. I need to start every sentence with getting her attention first.
Ah, this drives my husband nuts too, but you know what drives me nuts? That I'm watching a show, reading a book or browsing the internet and he expects me to immediately snap to attention at the first sound that exits his mouth. I'M BUSY! Obviously you need to get my attention before you start rambling.
I have the same! Especially when I'm watching TV or reading, but it does not really matter what I'm doing, the 'start conversation' button needs to be pressed first, so it seems. Drives my bf insane
This drives me crazy. Why do people start conversations when you are reading or watching TV or listening to music? Just why?
Load More Replies...Seems reasonable, unless you expect her to just follow you around longing for your next word. It's rude and slightly obnoxious to assume she's never thinking about something other than when you might talk next?
Maybe try to address her by name first a wait to get attention first? That's how people do it.
I learned to do this because my guy starts his sentences in the middle and the beginning is in the middle. So I start at the beginning of the story, which is the middle of his sentence and he has to repeat the middle of the story/beginning of his sentence. Drives us both batty.
I think that it is so common that our vocabulary incorporated it. For example, words like "So," "Well," "Listen," or just calling the interlocutor name discount that a brief lapse is needed to get the attention. A longer introductory phrase sometimes is used, especially when speaking to a larger audience.
I've been married to my husband for 5 years. I have never seen the man blow his nose. He only sniffles.
I have a friend like this. 6ft3, built, covered in tattoos, and sneezes like a gerbil
Load More Replies...I'm still unable to blow my nose, 45 years old. I do not know how people do it. I do as they tell me, build up pressure, blow, but nothing ever happens.
Try pressing one nostril shut and blow out of the other, then switch sides - I cannot blow both nostrils at the same time, either!
Load More Replies...My boyfriend sneeze is loud0ish but not to bad. But when he blows his nose, it's like a herd of elephants on fire trumpeting while falling down a cliff!
My hubby blows his nose and it sounds like a Bellows it is so loud, It scares the hell out of me if I drift off to sleep.
I have probably blown my nose about twice in the last year. When you're not ill, you don't need to.
He had an addiction to soda. He would leave empty 2 liter bottles in clusters. Sometime 15 of them. I don’t know why he didn’t just throw them in recycling. I called them his “sculpture gardens”. He has since quit soda all together, so no more sculpture gardens in this house.
Knew a dude who had his house condemned. Kinda the town bummish character. Well my boss bought his house so he can rent it out.. He had a PILE like almost to the basement ceiling of 2 liters.... and randomly around his house. like this, in little clusters some of them..... all filled with pee
Hope your boss got the house reeeeaalllly cheap.
Load More Replies...If you're drinking 2 liters of soda on a daily basis you're well on your way to become a certified diabetic. Good for him for quitting the habit.
Not necessarily. Consuming sugar does not cause diabetes if it's not causing excessive weight gain.
Load More Replies...Sadly, this is a sign of a much, much deeper problem. Don't condemn him, he needs help.
Mine does this with coke cans...... I call it hos army...... I can literally fill the entire recycling bin ehich we keep in our house and sits 15 feet from him.... Instead thry are all over the island.... The table in our room.... His computer desk and the outside table.....
My husband puts his mouth directly on the faucet to rinse when he brushes his teeth.
We have sex, we kiss, but don't put your mouth on the faucet.....
My partner doesn't was his face after brushing his teeth so leaves toothpaste all over the hand towel when he wipes his mouth, huge pet peeve!
When my wife and I first moved in together she had this ridiculous fear that someone would break into the apartment. So the front door was dead locked and the flimsy a*s bedroom door was locked, every night. I got used to that, but the weirdest part was, as afraid as she was, she HAD to sleep on the side of the bed closest to the door. I'll never understand that thought process.
It's also instinctual to want to be able to see any primary entry points when you go to sleep. It's unnerving to know that there's an entry point behind you while you try to drift off...
Load More Replies...Men have been breaking into women’s homes to rape and murder them since the dawn of time. Must be so nice to not have to worry about that to the point where you call the fear “ridiculous.” :/
As a big hairy man that’s not capable of being raped I hope you give credit too the men who don’t call this “ridiculous”! I could write some crazy generalizations about women. That gets us nowhere
Load More Replies...That is not a ridiculous fear, and making fun of it only makes OP seem like an a**e.
I sleep closest to the door. I told my wife if someone comes in the house, they have to go through me first.
My Man! Exactly! I’m assuming you’ve had to clear houses in Iraq before!
Load More Replies...You might want to ask her about her past experiences, with roommates (and people they may bring into the house or apartment). Or, Heaven forbid, relatives or ex-boyfriends.
All outside doors are always locked when going to bed, but the bedroom door isn't. That's way too dangerous in case of a fire, which is statistically more likely to happen than a burglar entering your bedroom.
...easiest place to flee from if someone breaks in through the window.
The fact that he doesn't stir up things like yogurt and sour cream before using them. Just spoons it out un-stirred like a barbarian.
I'm guessing the liquid (whey?) that goes to the top.
Load More Replies...I prefer them not stirred, personally. It seems cleaner to me--less contact.
She is a water bottle hoarder. While packing up for our last move, we filled one of those curbside recycling bins with empty water bottles twice. Bottles in drawers, under the bed, behind the fridge. Her thing is that she wants to recycle them but isn’t always near the bin, so she sets an empty one down and forgets about it, then it disappears. Maybe the cats, maybe shuffled items, who knows. I accept no blame; I’m all about tap water and forgetting to sweep underneath things.
Forgive me as I don't normally get on my "high horse" about things but that's appalling. Get a reusable water bottle for her instead of being a massive contributor to the planet's destruction.
Yeah, it's great you don't just throw them away but get a few reusable water bottles instead! Save the planet!
Why does she even buy water bottles when apparently the tap water is fine in your area?
single use plastics are the worst thing! so wasteful it's disgusting.
I like the Voss glass bottle and refill it. You shouldn't refill plastic bottles because they degrade.
He chews on things that he picks off his body: callused foot skin, toe nails, finger nails, etc.
That would be a deal breaker for me. No amount of love can make me overlook this.
Is it bad that I can sometimes do this if I know it’s clean? Like if I’ve been running around barefoot in dirt, no, but if I just showered maybe. I don’t know why, it’s a weird habit.
Sock balls. When he takes his socks off, he doesn’t pull them out flat. He leaves them in the wadded up form they take on from the way he removes them, and doesn’t fix it before he washes them.
I fold the couple of socks together when I put them in the drawer..I don't know how to tell, put together, fold in half and fold back one sock over the other one like a packet.. my husband does this when he put the dirty sock in he laundry basket, I hate it because I have to check and separate each sock when I make laundry or the socks don't wash properly..
I had the same problem. I told him I will wash the socks just the way they are, if they aren't clean or dry properly, it's his problem. Same with emptying pockets.
Load More Replies...We safety pin dirty socks together. I was taught that as a child, my grandmother taught my mother to do it. Safety pin your dirty socks together before they go in the hamper, then they come out of the hamper in a pair and you don't waste time looking for matching socks. You remove the safety pin and put the clean socks in your drawer, and the safety pin goes back in the cup to be reused.
Multipacks of matching socks solves the problem too. All my husband's work socks are identical.
Load More Replies...My husband used to do that. After he got back some not-quite-clean sock wads, he stopped.
That he sleepwalks. He's only done it maybe twice, and it was when he was incredibly stressed out and exhausted after our son was born. But apparently he used to do it all the time as a kid, and it runs in his family. Our son even has night terrors sometimes, which are thought to be related to my husband's sleepwalking (it's said paranomnias run in families).
As a sleepwalker myself, my advice is to see a doctor about this. Sleepwalkers and night terrors can be a sign of a seizure disorder.
My spouse would say that, I’ll eat anything that has touched anything. I could drop food on the ground and I’ll eat it. It’s a waste if I don’t. I’ll lick butter off of a restaurant table. Makes her nuts.
I'd eat something I dropped on the floor if I picked it up quickly and was in my own house but licking butter off a table?! Ewww
I would do the at-home thing. Would never eat stuff laying around in a public place though...
He keeps Swiss cake rolls in the freezer. What the hell? You don’t buy them from the freezer - why would you keep them there?
I keep Fudge Rounds and Nutty Buddys in the freezer. Any snack cakes, really, cause I don't like them soft and mushy.
Frozen Nutty Buddys are awesome! Frozen Reeses are really good, put behind frozen peas and the kids never find them lol
Load More Replies...Now, if something from the bakery is on special at a price that’s just too good to pass up, and I buy a bunch of it, I’ll keep some out and freeze the rest (we have a chest freezer), then thaw it out as needed.
We keep our Swiss rolls in the fridge/freezer also. Depends where there's more room and the outside temp. Like, freezer in summer, fridge in winter.
My husband does this with any snack cake. I am NOT allowed to eat those. Mine are in the cupboard, his are in the freezer.
He tears off his toenails and smells them before discarding.
Best guess is smelling for fungal infection or something. can't smell his feet, so if he takes the toenail off and smells something off, then he'd know something is wrong.
Load More Replies...My cousin likes to eat toenails and the dead skin that accumulates on feet. No, not just her own. Yeah.
But does he then stab you with the sharp ends of them? And then you find them in the bed? Do you ask him repeatedly to bin the little pile of clippings in the bathroom, he says he has done it. But it is right in front of you. And it transpires there was a secret secondary pile of nail clippings at the bottom of the stairs, and thought you were on about that one.
If he’s playing a video game, and only when he is playing a video game, he will come upstairs, make himself something to eat or drink, and run back downstairs... the “weird” part is that half the time he forgets to put away some perishable ingredient, or just doesn’t put any of the food back period. This one time he left a whole gallon of milk out during a f**king snow storm. I bring up his weird habit when we get into petty arguments about cleaning the house and his response is always “OH MY GOD M4RCELINE IT HAPPENED ONE TIME!” It definitely did not happen just one time. The milk incident, yes, that was only once. But just last week he left out half of a (cooked) frozen pizza. Also, I always know when he’s been eating peanut butter waffles because I go into the kitchen to find Aunt Jemima and cousin Jif staring at me by the toaster.
Move a fridge downstairs just for him, and let him deal with the mouldy food he leaves out
Becky. You can't talk to people who posted something on Reddit 3 years ago. It's a completely different website. Click the link under the pictures.
Load More Replies...Start taking pictures if you want him to try not to do it anymore. That way you’ll have proof the next time he tries to blow you off. Then give him a kiss and a cookie so he knows he’s not in trouble, you’d just like him to do better. :) what works on kids also works on husbands.
Jif is bathroom cleaner down here, always confused me until someone explained it is peanut butter up there.
Thank you, that helps. So what's the Aunt Jemima thing?
Load More Replies...I recently discovered that my partner of 12 years doesn't like tootsie pops. It was exceptionally shocking, for some reason.
He stands up to wipe his butt.
Me? My fat ass just clamps together if I stand up!
Load More Replies...There was a whole Reddit thread on this. I learnt that apparently there are standers and there are sitters. Who knew.
He's obviously not on here else he would be posting about how you sit down to wipe yours...
No, it's not. When you're sitting down you have better access to the area that needs to be wiped. That's why bidets also require you to sit down.
Load More Replies...You need a bidet. He can sit and spray his troubles away. He probably has trouble reaching around while seated.
Stinky pants and cups everywhere
I can come home from a day at work when she is off all day and immediately tell what she ate, did and didn’t do all day.
Okay I definitely do this. If I have a day off I want to relax and do nothing! I will clean up my mess at the end!
So what? It is called COMUNICATION. Try it sometime, maybe even you could have a normal conversation with the person who lives with you in the same house.
And you have to pretend that you're interested after having a busy and tiring day at work where your boss is an asshat and your co-workers are slimy creeps who are after your job or else you are an inconsiderate jerk.
Yes, because I am sure she has never been tired and had to hear about said slimy creeps at your job or hear you complaining about your "asshat boss" ....c'mon you are someone's spouse. Sometimes that requires "acting interested" in their life even if you had a bad day. If you do not do so...it does not make you an "inconsiderate jerk", but it may cause unnecessary resentment. Just listen to each other, its not that hard, even when tired.
Load More Replies...She builds houses down in Barbados every 3 months with a bunch of overweight white women from her office. She says she’s in charge of taking large loads of dark wood.
Correction, it's *supposed* to be a sex joke, but it's not funny
Load More Replies...I read this a few times and couldn't get it so I decided to read it to my hubby. He got it straight away and had to explain it to me in simpler terms.
By the look of your picture, you're much too young.
Load More Replies...I hate to seem shallow but there are quite a few things on this post that would send me packing. Hocking the shower, blowing your nose in the towel, chewing with your mouth open making that smacking sound. Nope to all!
The trick to a happy relationship - stick with someone who's quirks you can live with. (married for 40 yrs)
Load More Replies...My husband used to scrape the toppings off his pizza, eat them and then eat the nearly plain slice of dough afterwards. I used to tease him about it, but now he‘s stopped doing it and I feel like a jerk :/
Oh man that was the best. I did it as a kid and it was the best way to eat a pizza.
Load More Replies...After living in group houses for many years, I bought my own condo and my girlfriend moved in. She noticed that I would put all my stuff in the refrigerator into one corner. It didn't even occur to me that I own this fridge and can use the whole thing, haha!
Is this weird, I don't like to eat my salad before my dinner, if there is soup, salad, and entree, i want to eat them all simultaneously taking bites of each one.
I don't think so. I find it strange when people cram down a bowl full of iceberg lettuce and then eat a savory entree after
Load More Replies...Some of these are okay, but some of these are messed up.
My husband never puts the lid back on anything... well, at least not all the way - he just sets it on top of the bottle / jar / tube and does maybe 1/8 of an actual turn... which in some ways is worse than leaving it off altogether. When you go to grab a bottle of pills by the lid and the bottle falls out of the cupboard - pills flying everywhere... Or you go to squeegee the toothpaste to the top of the tube and it starts oozing out everywhere around the lid... Or you got to grab a jar of nacho cheese out of the refrigerator (again, by the lid) and it tips over, getting cheese everywhere... 17 years of the same scenario and I STILL have random mishaps related to lids that only "appear" to be on. 😆
I hate to seem shallow but there are quite a few things on this post that would send me packing. Hocking the shower, blowing your nose in the towel, chewing with your mouth open making that smacking sound. Nope to all!
The trick to a happy relationship - stick with someone who's quirks you can live with. (married for 40 yrs)
Load More Replies...My husband used to scrape the toppings off his pizza, eat them and then eat the nearly plain slice of dough afterwards. I used to tease him about it, but now he‘s stopped doing it and I feel like a jerk :/
Oh man that was the best. I did it as a kid and it was the best way to eat a pizza.
Load More Replies...After living in group houses for many years, I bought my own condo and my girlfriend moved in. She noticed that I would put all my stuff in the refrigerator into one corner. It didn't even occur to me that I own this fridge and can use the whole thing, haha!
Is this weird, I don't like to eat my salad before my dinner, if there is soup, salad, and entree, i want to eat them all simultaneously taking bites of each one.
I don't think so. I find it strange when people cram down a bowl full of iceberg lettuce and then eat a savory entree after
Load More Replies...Some of these are okay, but some of these are messed up.
My husband never puts the lid back on anything... well, at least not all the way - he just sets it on top of the bottle / jar / tube and does maybe 1/8 of an actual turn... which in some ways is worse than leaving it off altogether. When you go to grab a bottle of pills by the lid and the bottle falls out of the cupboard - pills flying everywhere... Or you go to squeegee the toothpaste to the top of the tube and it starts oozing out everywhere around the lid... Or you got to grab a jar of nacho cheese out of the refrigerator (again, by the lid) and it tips over, getting cheese everywhere... 17 years of the same scenario and I STILL have random mishaps related to lids that only "appear" to be on. 😆
