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Someone Asked What Weird Habits Partners Hid Before Moving In And 24 Folks Had Some Dirty Secrets
Living together is not easy. People come with their quirks and ways of doing things that sometimes might seem questionable to the other person. That's especially true for couples. One poll estimates that people think their partner has an average of five annoying habits.
In this online thread, people had to pick just one. They told their stories to one netizen's prompt, "What was the most shocking habit you discovered when you moved in with a partner?" I'll admit, some of them are quite quirky and heartwarming. Other partners, however, deserve jail time for their nasty tendencies.
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#1
I didn't move in with him I just stayed there a lot and cleaned up his mess a lot of times but he had pee bottles under the bed and I don't know why I didn't leave the moment I discovered it either.
Ladies, please please make pee bottles under the bed a deal breaker. ?.
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#3
He would keep the TV on for background noise. As soon as we walked into the apartment, he would zoom over to the TV and turn it on and leave it like that. We inadvertently had a silent war of him turning it on and me turning it off all day. I finally realized it was slowly driving me crazy and had to explain to him that all the constant noise was hurting my brain and it was me or the TV.
I didn’t have a problem with the TV on while he’s actually watching it (at a normal volume) but him moving around the apartment with god knows what blaring from the TV was wayyyy too overstimulating. It was almost 30 years ago when we really didn’t have the language to understand or explain sensory overload, he acted like I was just being controlling. It wasn’t until we had our baby, who couldn’t tolerate all the noise, that he finally realized it wasn’t just a ‘me’ thing. We don’t even keep a TV in the living area anymore. There’s one in the guest room and one in the master bedroom. He’s much more respectful and understanding of my (and the kids’) sensory sensitivity.
#4
She wanted me to fix her gaming chair one time because the lever to raise and lower it stopped working. So I grabbed it and flipped it upside down but my hand was grabbing something rough and crunchy. I almost puked when I realized what I was looking at and touching was months worth of her dried boogers she wiped on the bottom of the chair.
#5
She sprints up and down the stairs. She just hates being on the stairs, so she makes it as fast as possible. It’s insane to watch her calmly walk to the stairs then just automatically start sprinting.
#6
That he would bite his nails and drop the little pieces all over the apartment. He moved out 6 months ago and I’m STILL finding fingernail bits in weird places.
#7
When he pops a pimple, he puts the contents on the frame of the mirror to “see it” and then forgets to clean it off. I didn’t understand what the white specks were at first.
This has since stopped after it sent me into a rage?
Edit: The comments have made me giggle, but to be clear it was just little white specks not huge boil like zit contents, still really gross though. I read him the comments tho so he knows the world thinks he is nasty haha.
Thankfully he is otherwise very normal and treats me like a queen.
#8
He won't clear the couch, he just sits down. Fresh folded washing? Sit on it. Handbag? Sit on it. Paper? Sit on it. Was so tempted to leave a saucy plate on the couch and see what happened. Habit finally ended when he sat on a laptop.
#11
Until we agreed on a sane solution, she would remove her daily contacts and just… throw them on the floor wherever she was. They dry up quickly and become crunchy, sharp little eye germ blights. Absolutely unthinkable to me.
#12
Oo I've got one.This was my first live-in relationship.
His mum often gave him containers of food to take home, and he forgot to take them out of the car boot... then he remembered they were there but just kept putting off dealing with it. He was driving around with a boot load of mouldy food and maggots.
#13
She was a baker. Would make all kinds of delicious treats, usually using multiple mixing bowls, utensils, and small appliances.
Would not even rinse them until days later when the batter is dried on like cement or had started to mold in the blender or on the hand mixer or whatever.
I swear when I explained if you rinsed them right after to get the majority of stuff out, it made clean up 10x easier.
She literally did not believe her until I baked something and showed her how easily the still wet batter got rinsed out of the bowl.
She would spend literal hours scrubbing cemented on batter before then.
#14
We would buy veggies etc, and if it had the slightest bit of discoloration (not exaggerating) he’d throw it away.
Also he would peel like 8 million layers off an onion before cutting it, essentially wasting most of the onion..
#17
He literally undresses as he walks around the house. Like I will find socks in the living room pants in the dining room T-shirt in the kitchen. My husband also grew up with a stay-at-home mom who did everything for him and his siblings, laundry cleaning cooking etc. Literally the one thing she did not do was put their neatly folded clothes away in their dressers and closets. Some of our biggest squabbles have been over the fact that yes he is getting better at picking up after himself, but he does it in the most infuriating way. Dirty clothes end up right next to the laundry hamper, dishes and garbage end up on the kitchen counter, instead of in the sink and garbage can.
As far as shocking habits go, I will take this one happily.
#18
My girl loves peanut butter so much, she has a tub of it next to the bed. And on the coffee table. And in her office. None of these tubs have lids, they are always open with a spoon in it.
I'm concerned that the peanut butter might spoil/ go bad, but she says she eats a whole container every 2 weeks? I still love her like crazy though.
#19
A severe addiction to scrolling Facebook. So bad he would scroll while driving, the instant he would open his eyes he would grab his phone & open the app... All day long. It baffled me.
#20
Didn't move in, but my first long term high school boyfriend used chewing tobacco and used any empty bottle as a spitoon
First time he invited me in his room I sat on his bed and felt/heard a crunch.
between his wall and bed and all over the floor/under his bed were FULL bottles of dip and saliva.
#21
My ex would buy washable period underwear and soak it overnight in the only sink we had. You can imagine the view/smell when you're doing anything that uses a sink, especially in the morning, going to work. She was a jobless parasite consuming media and Twitter all day while I had to provide for both of us and would be greeted with this sight every morning during her period.
Every time I told her to use a bucket or some other suitable container I would be called a sexist and would have to grow up.
This is just one but I could fill a book with disgusting/toxic habits she had, most of them just to spite me.
#22
They didn’t know how to turn on a stove, microwave, washing machine, or dryer. Then the one time they made dinner, I was so surprised and impressed that I didn’t say anything when I found the takeout containers in the garbage. I feel stupid for not calling them out on it now but thankfully it’s not my circus or my monkey anymore.
The habit was pathological lying and weaponised incompetence which I only learned those terms after. I really thought they were the only ones to do that too.
#23
I knew my boyfriend was messy, but I put it down to the fact he was living on his own. When I moved in with him, we started by deep cleaning his place. He was then absolutely shocked when he realized I expected him to clean and tidy regularly. I don't know what he was thinking, that we would just do it once when I moved in, and then every six months? Thank God he's somehow improved!
#24
He and his roommates NEVER took out the trash. Like ever. Huge pile of full trash bags in the kitchen, almost reaching the ceiling, with trash in all the cabinets too. Every great once in a while, they would rent a U-Haul to take it to the dump. So confusing to me, but I didn’t know how to help them break the cycle. Nice guys, but sheesh.
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