31 People Reveal The Weird Habits They Discovered After Moving In With Their Partners
I’ve been married for three years, and I still occasionally learn something new about my wife. Usually it’s a household routine I’ve been doing wrong for years. Living with someone doesn’t come with a complete instruction manual. You just find out one Tuesday while unloading the dishwasher.
That’s part of what makes moving in together interesting. You can spend plenty of time at someone’s place and still only know the guest version of their routine. Once you share a bathroom, a kitchen, and a bedtime, the little habits become a lot harder to miss.
People in this thread shared the things they discovered about their partners after moving in together. Some are sweet, some are baffling, and a few would have me asking for my own shelf.
1. “Makeup.”
“As a young bloke growing up, never saw my Mum actually putting it on, sure a touch up of lipstick here and there, most of my partners also, it wasn’t until my current other half that I saw the full process.
I sat there absolutely fascinated, watched the entire thing, she’s in front of the mirror in the bathroom, slinky dress on, I had a rough idea what she was wearing underneath, at some point I became sentient enough to tell her how good she looked, got a flirty wink in return.”
2. “He talks and walks in his sleep.”
“He’s already told me what he got me for my birthday and apparently he’s pissed off at some guy named Kevin.”
3. “He sits on our toilet to pee!”
“I never have to worry about the seat being left up!”
4. “He’s very particular about the way that stuff goes on shelves.”
“Like, down to the angles of objects. And books have to be not just alphabetized, but categorized in sections. I respect it, he’s very cute to me, but I did not know you could think about these things so hard.”
5. “My wife told me as soon as we moved in together she doesn’t clean bathrooms so I’ll have to do it for eternity.”
“I laughed. Bc she’s the cleanest neatest OCD-est person on the planet. But. Apparently, It wasn’t a joke. She hasn’t cleaned a toilet in years now. the trade off, I haven’t mowed the yard in years. Even though she likes to stand behind me to remind me that I’ve missed a spot, she’s worth it.”
6. “She opens cereal boxes like Bruce Banner would mid hulk transformation, and she also washes her face by splashing water into her face with reckless abandon.”
“Bathroom counter looks like the end of a SeaWorld show. Minus the animal cruelty.”
7. “How much he eats. He eats so much. Shocking at first.”
8. “How infrequently he showered.”
“It was weird, because I didn’t think he smelled and was an active clean cut guy, but I had to wash my couch and bedding so much more frequently because it just got that stank smell to it. I still shudder thinking about it. (He’s since gone and my place smells way better thank god.).”
9. “Cups.”
“New clean cup for every new drink, he is physically incapable of rinsing and reusing.”
10. “Hair everywhere.”
11. “I thought he didn’t like my cooking because he would rush into the plate and then not say anything afterwards to me.”
“Turns out that when he eats something he really enjoys he will eat it REALLY vigorously and then have to recover from his food coma.”
12. “He’s a binger.”
“If he finds a musician he likes, he’ll buy the whole catalog. Cool video game? Stay up until all hours every night until he’s gone all the way through it. Good book? Let’s read everything that author ever wrote! He just tended to binge on something that grabbed his interest. After I called it to his attention, he became a little more balanced, but he still goes all-in on some things. It’s sorta cute.”
13. “He stands with one foot on the toilet, and then crouches, to wipe.”
“I have no idea. It always looks like he’s trying to put in a tampon for the first time.”
14. “His daughter is the loudest person on the planet, which I already knew.”
“He’d always say he has no idea how he and babymama have such a loud kid because they’re both so introverted and quiet. Lo and behold, once we moved in together, I’ve quickly discovered that he is incredibly loud on his own, constantly. Whether he’s shouting/singing literal nonsense at the top of his lungs on the toilet, listening to things on his phone/laptop as high as they’ll go, randomly shouting nonsense close to my head, speaking in obnoxious voices to the cats, or just speaking as loudly as I ever imagined possible for no reason during conversations at home/in the car, he is NOT the quiet person I thought I was dating. It’s no wonder his daughter constantly yells, he does it all the time for no reason.”
15. “He leaves food in pots.”
“Sometimes it’s pretty cool. I don’t know why he’ll make himself some fries but leaves an arbitrary four pieces in the skillet. He says he never notices. I don’t know how. But I just eat them.
But other times it bothers me. Cooks himself some ramen noodles. He’ll drain the water but will leave like a quarter of noodles in the pot. He doesn’t throw it away. He lets it stick and I have to add water just to wait until I can unstick it.
16. “He does not pick up after himself at all.”
“He had a messy dirty house but blamed it on roommates and his cousin/ her kids that all stayed there at certain times. When his friends visited our new place they were shocked at how clean it was.”
17. “She cries all the time.”
“90% of the time because of the movie/TV show/podcast she is watching. Other 15% is just random “im so lucky to have you” happy crying. Is both endearing and funny to me. Her first mistake was when i found out she cries to beauty and the beast music. Now i will make her dinner and listen to the music while i cook forcing her to come and cry with me or to throw things at me while laughing/crying. It’s adorable.”
18. “He burps in his sleep, and when he burps, he actually says the word burp. It’s bizarre.”
19. “He doesn’t just snuggle me because it’s cute and I’m only over every once and a while, he HAS TO BE the big spoon to something when he sleeps.”
“Every night he snuggles with me all night, and even when I’m not around when he goes to bed, he cuddles the Pillows, balled up covers, the cat, a piles of clothes…it’s adorable.”
20. “My husband is deaf (to clarify, I did know this before we moved in together).”
The thing is, I had NO IDEA how loud he could be. It should have occurred to me sooner, but he has no concept of his own volume. Listening to him make a cup of tea is like having the cast of Stomp in our kitchen.
21.
That he doesn’t clean up after himself. Sometimes I feel more like a maid than his wife. I feel like I do everything around the house and he does nothing.
22. “He always brushes his teeth before hopping in the shower. All my life I’ve brushed my teeth after I shower.”
“It’s obviously a really small thing. But it really stood out to me because I asked him why and he said he didn’t like taking a shower tasting morning breath, preferred a fresh mouth so he could enjoy the shower.
It seemed like such a good reason, in the moment I felt a little dumb doing it my way for so long.”
23. “We’ve been married for 21 years and I have only heard him burp maybe 2 times and fart about the same. He is also a phantom pooper…. no smell and he’s in and out in record time. It’s so weird.”
“I’m pretty normal in the gas department but feel like an absolute Neanderthal if I let one rip.”
24. “I know the dude has body hair. It’s cute. I like it.”
“I had no idea that his body hair apparently explodes off him with great violence every time he takes a shower. Shower clogs have gone from a once-a-year thing, maybe, if I do a leg shave after winter, to a monthly thing. It’s all thick, curly brown man-fur.
Is… is this a common thing? Does it happen to other guys?
Also, he goes to bed fully clothed and then wriggles out of his clothing throughout the night.”
25. “I can tell where he’s been in the house by following all the little change piles he leaves from emptying his pockets after work, coming home from the store etc.”
26. “He is obsessed with programmable things.”
“Now all of our lamps are programmed so if I walk into a room I have to go “Alexa, turn on the lights.” It’s like living in some sci-fi movie. It’s fun until we get into a fight and then he messes with me by doing weird things to the lights.”
27. “We’ve been married a little over 10 years.”
“I just realized a month ago, he lays his socks out every night before bed. Not a shirt, not a pair of pants or his belt, but his socks.”
Edit: I just asked him if he’s been laying socks out every night recently. He says he’s been doing it since he was a kid. He hates wasting time trying to find mates. He likes to sleep in as late as he can before heading out the door, this I did know.
It’s a time saver. 🙂
Edit: with all the comments about having piles of socks I guess I should say, he does fold them and organize them, sometimes. He just lays them out at night. Sometimes he will just have a basket of laundry he hadn’t gotten too and he’ll have to dig through it.