Yahoo Lifestyle "I Thought It Was The Weirdest Thing; I Felt Like I Was On Mars": Couples Are Revealing The "Untamed" Habit They Discovered Their Partner Did Once They Started Living Together
When a lot of couples decide to move in with one another as a natural next step in most romantic relationships, they may discover their partner has some really weird home habits that no one should see. So when Reddit user SeasonBeneficial5871 asked: "What's the weirdest thing you've discovered about your partner only after moving in together?" a lot of people had some wild stories to tell... and I honestly don't know how to feel about it. Here's what they said below:
1."He wanted to put all the cutlery just straight into a drawer without any divides between knives, forks, and spoons. Just... all in there in a mess."
2."He gets a weird feeling in his tummy and then goes to sit on the toilet for an hour until he has a bowel movement. I, apparently, wait until I get the cue to go to the bathroom before actually attempting, as I thought was normal."
"He quite literally made fun of me yesterday for kicking him off the toilet. 'You made me get up to only take 30 seconds??' Dude, you've been in there for 45 minutes, and clearly, nothing was happening if you could just let me in like that."
"He has a hot date with some hemorrhoids in his future."
3."In the middle of the night, I will wake up to him having both of his arms straight in the air like a damn zombie. If I lay too close to him when he does this, I get a surprise mammogram when he inevitably drops his arms down."
4."How every single cup of coffee is left 1/4 full around the apartment."
"My wife leaves exactly one (1) swig in every cup."
5."She drinks coffee while pooping. There's something so gross about that to me: consuming something while also going to the toilet. It gives me shivers."
6."He sleeps like a vampire: sleeping on his back, with his arms straight by his sides or folded on his chest. Every. Single. Night. Some nights, he doesn’t even change his position at all. I was seriously concerned during the first couple of nights we slept in the same bed."
"Oh, my god, mine, too. He sleeps propped up on four pillows. He pulls the covers up to his chin and then puts his arms outside of the blankets, like someone who just died in a hospital bed. He also doesn't like his feet being covered by the blanket. He drives with Google Maps oriented north. I think he is a psychopath."
"This is me. I barely move in my sleep. I sleep on my back with my hands folded on my lap. I can normally get up in the mornings and barely have to make the bed because nothing moves. My boyfriend, however, is fighting demons in his sleep and rolls all around and splays out and kicks and twitches. He will throw everything off the bed."
7."The snot shirt. When he gets any kind of respiratory sickness, he takes a shirt out, puts it on his nightstand, and blows his nose in it during the night. He says it’s cheaper and softer than tissues."
8."He will occasionally (usually when I'm not around to be appalled) eat dry tortellini straight out of the bag when he's reading in bed. Dry. Tortellini."
"Ok, I've read enough. Good luck and Godspeed."
9."Evidently, there is a right way and a wrong way to fold towels."
10."I always thought that when movies or TV shows feature someone talking in their sleep, and they just spout random, silly nonsense, that it was mostly for comedic effect and wasn’t really a reflection of real life. Nope. My partner talks in his sleep, and it’s always just absolutely random, silly nonsense. The most recent one was, in a tone of dismay, 'There’s ice cream all over the stairs…' followed by a drawn-out 'broooooooo.'"
"He also just periodically giggles in his sleep, which, frankly, is one of the most adorable things I’ve ever seen from another human."
"I keep a note in my phone for these quotes and plan to make him a little coffee table book with the conversations we've had in his sleep written out like poetry. The note goes back four years, and I think it's time for volume 1."
"My ex-husband would say the most random shit in his sleep, too. One time, he was groaning and moaning, but not in a sexy way, so I asked him what was wrong. He said, in the most miserable tone, 'The man! He's putting the farts in the bag.'"
11."He set tons of alarms, but none actually wake him up."
12."How unbelievably, and almost uniquely, normal she is. She has no drama. No family issues. No trauma-induced fetishes. She likes Superman and loves people for who they are. She’s mild-mannered and kind. Loves animals. We’ve never raised our voices to one another in nine years together."
"Coming from 30 years of chaotic relationships, it’s still a little unsettling to me sometimes. We’ve been married seven years now, and I still wait for the bad stuff to pop up, but there may just not be any. She’s the definition of a breath of fresh air. Every day."
"Dude, this is my girlfriend. I used to feel like there was a lack of general life enthusiasm about her, but I couldn’t describe it. Only positive things. She gets excited; she has interesting things to say.
But I always felt like something was missing in our relationship. I mentioned that to my psychologist friend. She said, 'Did you say your ex was super judgmental and over-sensitive?' I said yeah. She said I probably see drama as 'excitement,' and that’s why this good relationship seems lacking.
That totally changed my perspective. It’s a mild case of 'this person always chooses abusive partners.' It’s because they find that the lack of drama/abuse is uncaptivating."
13."That it’s apparently totally normal to leave EVERY CUPBOARD OPEN. I love her more than life, but man, is it annoying."
14."My boyfriend essentially needs blizzard conditions to sleep: Ceiling fan, side fan, completely naked. Sometimes, he puts an ice pack under his pillow — and he puts blizzard sound effects on his earphones to drop off. If I'm there, he also constantly hugs, squeezes, or wraps himself around me."
"We only lived together for a week at a time before. As I need basically the opposite conditions (warm, layered pajamas, untouched, silence), we're not compatible with sharing a sleeping space. So in a couple of months, we're getting a two-bedroom place together so we both get to sleep and not want to murder each other."
"I think a lot of marriages would benefit from different sleeping spaces.
My husband and I at least have two different blankets on the bed. Now, we don't have to pull to get our share.
When we get a hotel room, they're usually two queens, and we may first cuddle together like at home but ultimately, sleep separately."
15."We were fixing to watch a movie, and he wanted popcorn. He said, 'Too bad we don’t have any lettuce.' I asked if he wanted a salad, and he said, 'No, I want popcorn and lettuce.' He said he never said anything at the movie theater because he always knew they never had lettuce. The man eats bites of lettuce and popcorn together. His whole family does."
16."The amount of times she gets up in the night to pee."
17."While I'm cooking, he insists on opening the goddamn oven MULTIPLE TIMES to check if it's ready. It makes me homicidal."
18."He farts nonstop. It just won’t fucking stop. I call him my little gas station.
"I feel your pain. Mine likes to walk through the house, then stop dead-stride, turn around, stare into my eyes, no matter where I am in the house, and cut the loudest and longest farts, all while keeping that stare-down. I'm wondering if he's trying to challenge me."
19."She has to have a kettle of water on the stove at all times. She rarely uses the kettle. It is in case the power goes out and the well pump stops. We have city water service."
20."That he only cleaned the apartment before I came over. He never cleaned. This man was living in absolute filth."
"My friend found out after she married her now ex-husband that his mom had been cleaning their apartment. Once they married, the mom stopped, which is how she found out."
21."He wakes up every night to find something to eat from the fridge while half asleep and drops food all the way from the fridge back to bed. Sometimes, he leaves cutlery in the fridge."
22."Doesn’t dry using a towel and instead naturally air dries."
"I had an ex like this. She would wait until the last minute to shower and get ready but refused to use a towel to speed up the process. She’d slather herself in baby oil while still wet and wait for both of them to airdry before even starting her hair or makeup."
23."So, when my husband and I moved in together, after various roommates and housing jumps, we ended up with a collection of can openers, but only one was any good, as it happens. I do a lot of can-heavy cooking, so I'd usually end up pulling two or three openers out, trying them til I found the one that could do all the work I needed. I'd put the extras aside, intending to ask him his thoughts on how to handle it. They still can be used, so I didn't want to toss them out, but it's too much work to use them for multiple cans at once. But I always forget, and he would clean the dishes and end up putting those away."
24."She doesn’t talk in her sleep, but she hums. Sometimes, I can make out the tune. Last night, it was 'Pink Pony Club.'"
25."Socks. All over the place."
26."My ex slept with his eyes slightly open. The first night, I thought he had died. The second night, I almost performed an exorcism."
"This is exactly what holy water is for."
27."She eats Oreos by taking a tall glass and filling it about three-quarters full of the cookies, and then she fills the glass with milk. She then waits about 5-10 minutes, stirs it all into a slurry, and eats it like a soup."
28."She threw all of her daily contacts behind her headboard, and I don’t think she ever intended to clean them up because there were like 300 of them back there."
"300 tiny crispy frisbees behind your headboard, excellent."
29."She eats corn on the cob vertically. She holds it as one would hold a banana, eats a layer around the cob, and moves down."
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