“She’s Basically Half-Dolphin”: 40 Things Couples Realized Only After Marriage
Being honest doesn't necessarily mean being open. A person can communicate without lying or distorting facts but may still choose not to share certain aspects of their thoughts, feelings, or experiences. And you can get quite close to someone without the two of you revealing every intricacy of your inner lives.
In fact, one survey of 2,175 married Brits showed that 20 percent of them are keeping a major secret from their partner (and about one in four of those people said the secret is so big, they worry it would end their relationship).
So let's see what this looks like and take a peek at a Reddit thread that asked platform users to share the things they learned about their spouse only after tying the knot.
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That my husband sings a different song every morning. We had lived with each other before we were married but it wasn’t until after we were married and moved into our new house that I started to realize he sings every single morning and it’s always different songs from all different decades. It’s one of the things I love the most about him."
I look forward to hearing what song he has chosen to shape his day around.
What a wonderful way for you both to start your day. Knowing there is a couple out there in the world loving life and each other so much brings me joy and hope.
My husband is very emotional (not so great sometimes). He sings day and night - he also works from home while I'm retired. It's like having my own Sirius station.
I credit my 'discovery' of a love of music to moving in with my brother in my 20s and him putting the radio on our national government funded (often labelled as 'youth') station every morning. Until then I though I hated most music and just couldn't be bothered listening to it. Now I listen to a huge range of music from different genres and cultures.
I sometimes sing in the shower. It makes the experience a little bit more enjoyable.
My husband does the same! This morning it was Christmas songs ❤️
She's a great swimmer. One day, after we'd been married for about seven years, we joined a gym with a swimming pool. She challenged me to a race. Ok, I thought, I'm a pretty good swimmer. I was surprised when she offered me a half-length head start - and then doubly surprised when despite my massive head start she beat me easily. Apparently she used to be a competition swimmer at school. She's basically half-dolphin. But she'd never happened to mention it before.
My friend once took a girl iceskating. For some 20 minutes he held her hand while she scrambled around on the ice helplessly. Then she let go, did a pirouette and some awesome jumps. Turns out she was a figure skating champion.
Don't know why someone down voted your comment, it was a great movie. :)
Load More Replies...This makes me sad. Did you never bother to ask her about HER in 7+ years?
My husband goes sock, shoe, sock, shoe instead of sock, sock, shoe, shoe. F*****g psychopath.
Just you wait until you're old. Sock, shoe, sock, shoe because I'm not lifting a foot twice!
All in the Family did an episode on this. It was funny and memorable.
I was going to put that if no one else had. One of my favorite episodes.
Load More Replies...i always go sock, shoe, sock, shoe. I don't want the sock to get all messed up...
I started doing this method after rotator cuff surgery. It is so much easier and I don't know what everyone has against it, unless you are one of those people who will slap the right side of their head because they just hurt their left side.
My husband loves telling this story. He is a big meat and potatoes guy. On our honeymoon, I told him that I was becoming vegetarian. It was something I’d been thinking about for awhile and couldn’t implement well while living with my parents.
When we got back from vacation, we fell into a routine where I did all the cooking. Turns out that he is lazier about cooking than he likes eating meat. Also, it turns out I’m a pretty good vegetarian cook. He now eats vegetarian whenever we are at home, and gets meat at restaurants when he goes out with his friends. He’s totally happy with it (truly!). It has been 10 years.
He’s the best.
Hey, if the main cook is vegetarian, then you eat vegetarian food or fend for yourself. I wouldn't have a problem with that, as long as I was able to buy and cook meat for myself when I wanted it. Sometimes you just need a bacon sandwich for emotional support.
TIL about emotional support bacon sandwiches. You are my heroine.
Load More Replies...My wife and kids are vegetarian. I'm the cook, but cooking steak for me just seems like too much work. Occasionally I cook meat, but mostly I just cook vegetarian at home. Then I buy meat when I eat out. Is probably helped my health a lot, and I don't really miss it that much.
I'm the same with fish and seafood. I only occasionally make it at home, because it would only be for me. sometimes I'll make a seafood stew or gumbo when a fellow seafood loving friend is visiting, but for just me it's a lot of work. when I do, I make a big batch and freeze myself portions. and when we go out I'll often go for a seafood option, as it's a treat. but making separate meals for each of us is not something I'd make a regular habit of. most meals are either stuff we both like, or things that are easily portioned separately then added to.
Load More Replies...I get it totally. I don't like cooking (and my disabilities make it hard anyway). So if someone else is cooking than my bar is basically is it edible? If it means I don't have to cook it, then I have no preferences.
seems fair enough. like, I love fish but my husband doesn't. so I only occasionally have it at home, because making two meals is a pain in the bum. but when I go out, I'll often have seafood because it's more of a treat. and lots of veggie food is delicious anyway.
I'm 60 and haven't eaten red meat since I was 17 - can't stand to look at it or smell it, and it makes my gut sick. But it's amazing how many meat-eaters look at you like you're crazy if you turn down a hamburger - "WHAT! BUT THAT'S THE MOST DELICIOUS THING TO EAT ON EARTH!" My mother still asks, "But don't you miss a big, juicy steak?" It's so hard not to throw up when she says that.
What about it suddenly made you sick? I wish that would happen to me
Load More Replies...If you can actually cook interesting and tasty vegetarian food (w/o using disgusting fake meat) you are very talented.
I eat many meat-less meals but I have never tried fake meat. There are just so many good vegetarian meals that I don't think you need it.
Load More Replies...Talk about bait and switch and forcing your husband to accept meatless meals.
she's not forcing him. he can make his own meals. she's not saying he can't eat meat. but in any couple where one has more dietary restrictions than the other, it's just easier to only make one meal that is suitable for both of you, or something where you can separate it near the end to add the ingredient the other either doesn't like or can't have. there's nothing wrong with not making two separate meals when one meal is suitable for both of them.
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Been together 20 years. Married for 17.
I’ve been telling the same “dad joke” since I was about 17. Whenever someone says something was “intense” I always respond with “like the circus?”. My wife has been rolling her eyes at it for nearly 20 years...until about 6 months ago.
I gave my lame response to her, but instead of rolling her eyes at me they got really big, like I saw the lightbulb go off, then she chuckled.
She never got the joke until then.
One of my favourite lines from Victoria Wood. 'I thought you'd know how to put the tent up. Your mother said you were always intense.'
My doctor told me I had teepee/wigwam syndrome. I was too tense.
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Load More Replies...My father always conclude the Jesus says "Chi vuole intendere intenda" (Mc 4,23) with "e gli altri in roulotte", because "intenda" means "understand" but "in-tenda" means "in tent". XD
My response was always one of two "like boy scouts in the summer" or "like bears if you're not careful"
That would’ve been my mom. I was getting double entendre jokes before she finally figured them out. That lightbulb in her eyes was so funny.
She farts.
She had always farted around me. No big deal. Usually she kept it to little toots unless she was sick or drunk then it would be loud like mine.
I don't mind it's nature.
But holy f**k she unleashed an a*s trumpet that would put college marching bands to shame.
She can be across the house and I can hear her a*s.
Same! I can never figure out why farts or reading about farts is so damn funny but it really is!
Load More Replies...OMGS, a$$ trumpet! I’m dead! 🤣 My gf has farted so bad it made the bed vibrate! Or I’ve farted loud enough to scare my poor birds and wake myself up 😂😂 trying not to laugh so loud so I don’t wake the birds now! So I’m wheezing as soft as I can..
I wish this "Warning" had been the top comment, because I just spit hot coffee on my kindle! 😂😂😂
Load More Replies...My husband farts all evening while we're in bed watching Netflix. It's so disgusting! He just sits there and has these long, LOUD farts all through the show. But, OH, should I have a little toot, BOY, is he outraged, "You shouldn't fart. You're a LADY!" What hypocrisy.
Record him farting and then play it back under the duvet. When he gets mad at you show him the recording!
Load More Replies...I actually had a bf once who didn't know women farted, like at all....
I can smell my wife's farts across the house, she should be licensed as a WMD.
Spicy food during my period will give me superpowers like that.
Load More Replies...This was me whilst pregnant. SBD, I almost gassed us out of the car. 5 years later my husband still tells the story.
That the whole mr nice guy, mr sweet kind, generous, compassionate thing was a mask, an act, a disguise and camouflage in order to lure me in, in order to possess and control me. Then after we got married the mask came off. I was too naive to recognize the red flags before hand and fell into the trap. He faked being exactly the type of person that I wanted him to be, it was devastating to discover that the person I fell for never actually existed. Thank goodness I escaped. He was a true horror underneath.
I had a wife like that. The whole "chivalrous good guy" necessity kept me in the relationship for decades
Load More Replies...The same thing happened to me. It was like the minute we returned from our honeymoon he changed into a totally different person. It's been 14 years since divorce and it still traumatizes me sometimes. So much so, I couldn't care less about another relationship.
I had someone tell me that I have a problem if I refuse to get into another relationship. I just got out of one that I need to heal from. I think I’ll take my time and I’m quite happy on my own. I’m healed mostly now and I have decided that I still don’t need a relationship. There’s nothing wrong with that.
Load More Replies...Being a guy, I just cannot fathom how or why guys do this. Like, I wouldn't want to marry someone I wasn't in love with. I wouldn't want to try and change them because that is just too much work. Hell, I don't even enjoy s** as much unless I am clicking with the person on the same level. It's pathetic, really.
Why does he do that written by Lundy Bancroft gives the answer. It's a bitter read.
Load More Replies...People say oh why would you date an abuser in the first place? This is why. This is how they get you.
Wow. So many things on this list are so wholesome, neutral, quirky, or just a minor annoyance. Then I hit this one, and the rest of this list doesn't seem so funny anymore. (Not complaining, but it changed the whole mood.)
I fell for this too. I didn’t find out until it was almost too late. He tried to ☠️ me and crazy enough he has spent the last 9 years of our divorce being angry at me for talking to the district attorney about my rights. I always thought that was funny. You’d think I would be the angry one at him for lying for years, for cheating on me and for trying to ☠️ me, but no, he’s angry. In a way, that brought me peace, knowing I rankled him and I still do 9 years later. He doesn’t affect me anymore. I’m at peace now and happy to be away from the situation with my daughter.
I should have seen the signs based on her family! That manipulative & controlling mother ruined her! :(
Same baseline story, genders (presumably) swapped, luckily no marriage certificate existing, but took me entirely too long to realize.
I'm so glad you got away and it is not, I repeat not your fault for not seeing through his decite. Don't let them take away your ability to trust.
He’s a superstar on the dance floor. I was completely stunned as he danced circles around everyone to an 80’s playlist.
I'm sorry but how long had you know this person if you only found out they can dance after you got married?
Maybe they never had the opportunity to go out dancing before they got married. It happens, especially if she couldn't dance or didn't like dancing.
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How much I love her. It keeps getting better.
That the night before we go away on a trip, he will not sleep the entire night and I can hear his face smile against the pillow because he is excited."
Also when he rubs his eyes they squeak which is quite alarming when you first hear it.
We were together nine years before we were married!
Sweet his eyes squeak that's not sweet that's pretty alarming! The rest is sweet I suppose 😆 🤣
Load More Replies...That's the first time I hear someone else has also "squeaky eyes". It's usually only my left eye that squeaks.
I’m a double eye squeaker, my husband and kids find it hilarious!
Load More Replies..." I can hear his face smile..." I have tears in my eyes this is so sweet.
We met 16 years ago & have been married for 2. He still opens the car door for me. He unlocks the house and lets me in first, which I thought was so sweet - until I realized that I'm "burglar bait". Kidding. He's the kindest man I've ever known.
My first time flying was with my wife and daughter who was 7 at the time. Wife said before we left home "keep hold of her in the airport. She will be so excited and we don't want her running around." We both got told off for running around the boarding terminal laughing and waving at the pilots on all the airplanes and then for putting our hands up and and shouting like we was on a roller coaster on take off.
He absolutely cannot be trusted with desserts in the house. Back when we were engaged he’d give me time to eat my half of the ice cream or Oreo package or whatever we had on hand... now? I’m sitting here eating thin mints from a stash from under frozen veggies in our outside freezer.
All I have to do is put it in another cupboard. For some reason he can't remember it exists there.
Load More Replies...It's really hard to know delishy desserts are just sitting in the fridge..so after you eat all yours and 3-4 days go by and hubby still didnt touch his half?? Like hello are you trying to torture me you are going to lose it...
This is my dad. Once I came by when he was home and Mum was out, and I'd brought two pastries - one for each of them, and I made it clear that it was one each. When Mum came home I informed her that there was a nice pastry waiting for her. Not any more there wasn't. Dad ate both of them without a flicker of remorse. Next time I brought pastries I advised Mum to hide them. He found them, ate a bunch of them, then pretended he hadn't. The guy's hopeless.
yeah life of a sweet tooth. i promise we try lol. sugar is just so hypnotizing tho
I would get so mad I couldn't deal with it. Do not touch my food.
No, they are very thin chocolate mint cookies coated in a thin layer of chocolate fudge, sold by the Girl Scouts. They aren't a mint candy in any way, but they're delicious.
Load More Replies...At first glance I thought to myself, "Why on earth are they pouring what looks like maple syrup on a miniature cabbage?" 🫢🫣🤣🤣
It looks like matcha ice cream(?). Still don't get the maple syrup which would overpower the matcha flavor but hey, why not?
Load More Replies...I can’t trust myself with certain types of snacks in the house. Enough for a week? Nope….
OMG - that's my husband, too. I buy the 60 pack of Rice Krispies Treats at Costco and literally only eat three or four. Last time I went he asked me not to buy any more and I said, "So, I don't get any RKT because you have no self control?" I bought some anyway. They're over half gone and I am just now eating my first one.
I have a friend who was born and raised in Romania in a relatively poor family. His favourite section of a loaf of bread was the crusts on ether end (possibly even his favourite food in general) so when he got married (to a woman from Australia) he started leaving the crusts for her because they’re the best so he wanted her to have them. Well typically in Australia we throw away the end crusts, so when my friend left them she assumed he didn’t want them ether and threw them away. They were married for years before he caught her tossing them and got confused.
That's the key. Fatory bread crusts are AWFUL. But a good fresh loaf will always get both ends cut off and eaten first thing. Mmmmm.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of true story about my grandmother. My grandmother ate the heels (end pieces) so we saved them for her, thinking we were being nice. This continued for I don't know how long. Years. One day it somehow came up in conversation and grandmother says she doesn't particularly like the heels. Cue my mom looking kind of slack jaw - "I thought you liked the heels.: Grandma tells us, no, not particularly but you guys didn't seem to like them so I ate them. My grandmother would have been a young girl during the great depression. After that we all ate the heels. Not sure why Australians typically throw them away. They are still food.
It's just "one of those things". I grew up in Oz and yes, it always seemed the crusts would get tossed, but I love them toasted or as a sandwich it's more like a roll. Aussies tend to put the crust back after they take slices from the loaf. Keeps it fresh maybe? I know we have a LOT less sugar & preservatives in Aussie bread than in the US.
Load More Replies...My wife loves the crusts! She'd sooner throw away the entire loaf in between.
My SO doesn't like the crust. I do, so we are a perfect match! 😄
Load More Replies...People who cut the crust off and throw it away confuse me (unless it's burned/super hard, obviously)
Same. I don't like them, but I do the 'save the best 'til last' thing, so eat them first and deal with it. What amazes me though, is the number of kids whose parents let them not eat the crust.
Load More Replies...Here in OZ we normal folk do NOT throw away crusts. We use them to bribe kangaroos for rides
my baby bro loves the crusts of bread. he loves them so much that he refuses to eat the actual bread part in the center! he is such a cute lil baby and thats one of his fav foods!
I need to marry your brother because to me the soft bread in the centre is the best bit. I hate the crusts!
Load More Replies...Must be a regional thing cutting the crust off. Unless it's for some fancy Canapé, or from TV, I never heard of cutting off the crust. A total waste and the bread, sandwiches are keeping better in shape.
We don't typically throw away the crusts! We may not like them, but as adults most will eat them anyway, so as not to waste food.
I was the kid that my dad never told his new wife about. They had 3 kids together before she found out about me. My struggling mom filed for financial assistance, and when they found out she wasn't getting child support for me, they tracked my dad down easily through his government job and started docking his wages. I was 12. And that's how he had to tell his wife about this glaring omission from his past.
Dad deserved the call-out. I hope he made up for his lies and then some!
My 44-year-old sister just connected with her dad she never met about 2 years ago. He still hasn't told his wife who I guess is younger than him. She doesn't know if he is worried the wife thinks she wants something, but he won't give her a reason. But my sister and her husband are very financially stable, she has no reason to want anything except to get to know him and his family.
Glad she filed. She should have had that support all along from him. I hope this is an attitude that's going away. You helped make them and you and just leave and carry on with your life? This is indefensible.
My dad was kind of this kid, but I'm his case the new wife knew but was sworn to secrecy and none of the new kids knew. Until his bio dad passed away and the wife finally told her children, at 55-60 years old, that they had a half sibling. They've all been getting to know each other finally so it has a happy ending but no one really understands why it was this huge secret, it wasn't a birth outside of marriage or anything like that.
That my husband's anxiety is as bad as my own. It's actually refreshing because we know exactly how to help each other out when the other one's anxiety gets bad.
Awww, that's sweet! Someone who understands you + knows how to help you. :)
My anxiety triggers my wife's, which makes everything worse. Thankfully mine isn't that frequent. Hers is very frequent, and I know how to help her, so she could have written this. But the other way around it's not pretty.
It's the same for us! He knows better how to deal with me when anxiety takes over than I do myself. He's the best 🥰
That has always been one of my worries about dating someone- I don't want the to have to deal with my anxiety, but also I don't have the energy to look after someone else's
My mom found out my dad was a compulsive liar when his twin sister didn't show up to their wedding. When questioned about it he said she must have imagined the dozens of stories he had told about his twin sister. He is an only child.
according to OP they're still married, have been for more than 40 years. they said "My dad's not a sociopath but he is rather damaged and my mom loves looking after damaged people. You could say their crazy is compatible."
Load More Replies...The most disturbing part of that is "my dad" how did she not leave him right after that??! Instead she had kids with him.
To all the people in the comments telling her to get out: compulsive lying (while extremely annoying and sometimes difficult) is not abusive behavior. It is usually caused by some traumatic events and can at least get better with therapy. True, the guy did say she made it up but we all have to admit that it’s always difficult to admit that you lied, especially when you really don’t mean to. For anyone thinking ‘lying must be voluntary’, please look up compulsive lying.
Why isn't avoiding compulsive people good self-care?
Load More Replies...And she stayed long enough to get pregnant? Or was she already when they got married?
He's really good at doing household chores. Between us, I do all the cooking and he cleans up. He even makes sure the cutlery air dries on a cloth before wiping down the water stains. He developed a cleaning procedure to make sure the black marble kitchen top is spotless. He never ever leaves the dishes for the next day no matter how late the dinner ends (which can be really late when we entertain guests)
Also, he has a fondness for the latest household gadgets. The robotic vacuum cleaner was a really good buy - now he's eyeing an electric lock so we will never need to carry our keys again.
me and my partner have a really good balance, he cooks and I do the washing up. He is a fantastic cook while I'm a lazy cook. He does use a lot of utensils while cooking so the sink can get filled quickly, and he HATES doing the dishes while I enjoy it.
I too love washing dishes! My boyfriend does all the cooking. It's a good balance :)
Load More Replies...It's like people with an opener on the door to an attached garage. You'll get in without key most of the time, but once in awhile there's going to be a problem. Somebody I know opened the garage as she pulled into the driveway, but when she got inside and flipped a light switch the power was off. Everybody should have a key hidden somewhere (and not in a fake rock 3' from the door).
Load More Replies...I work in IT... Don't get the electronic lock. Just trust me on this one.
Agreed! I used to talk customers out if those on a regular basis. Just shiw them how easily a fridge magnet ooens them
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She makes PB&J sandwiches by mixing the PB and J in a separate bowl before spreading it on the bread. Pure savagery.
The whole world knows you put the P on one slice and the J on the other slice and then feel the satisfaction of lining them up and gluing them together. /s
I was aghast to learn that my wife of 9 years makes a PB&J by putting peanut butter on a slice of bread and then putting jelly on top of the peanut butter and then topping it with the second slice.
Load More Replies...The peanut butter goes on the right slice and the jelly on the left. I accidentally switched sides once and it just tasted wrong. But at least I’m not a psycho who mixes them! 😂
Yes pb right slice and bottom layer, it's pb&j 101
Load More Replies...While do make mine one side at a time, I can see the value in pre-mixing to ensure a proper ratio of P:J.
It sort of makes sense, but is not the thing to do. Why waste a bowl you have to clean?
We moved to New England after we had been married two weeks. When we got there, I found that my husband's name there is "Larry", not Jim, as I had always known him. Because there were so many men named Jim in his family, they called him by his middle name. Now, 49 years later, I still haven't gotten used to that name. He just doesn't seem like a Larry to me. I renamed him "Shamus" since that is his name in Irish, which he is. So, he now goes by three names. His 60th birthday cake read "Jim/Larry/Shamus". Life is strange.
Well if we're being properly Irish, it's Séamus, but what's a fada between friends
Load More Replies...An extra detail, if you want to use the Irish gaelic spelling for Shamus, you can use Seamus.
Not without the fecking fads you can't or at least shouldn't
Load More Replies...Changing someone's name is difficult. My sister's given name is Jeanette, everyone in the family called her Jeanie for years. For some reason her second husband decided to call her "Jan" (her given name was NOT Janet!). Now everyone but me calls her Jan, to me she will always be Jeanette.
I’m happily divorced now (almost 12 years now that I do the math), but after we got married I learned that she viewed her money as her money and my money as our money. Which was interesting because before we got married my money was our money and she didn’t have money to speak of. Not that I was even making good money. But after we got married she got a well paying job and suddenly her money was hers and mine wasn’t mine. It didn’t last long after that.
Sounds familiar!! My recent ex said I bullied her to combining our incomes. She could not have afforded the new house and everything else (her new car, electronics, etc.) without me. AND, I would have netted over 30% of my own money if we stayed like roommates - that she wanted (I found out after). However, when she divorced me, she wanted 1/2 of everything, including my income. After all, what's hers was hers, and what's mine was hers...AND, she did side work for years and kept it ALL!! Oh well...
Also divorced 12 years, but we were the opposite: my money was our money but his money was his money.
I've encountered a surprising number of women who have married with this attitude. It's a carryover of the whole "man is breadwinner" mentality where the woman stays home while the man works to support the family. That means that if the woman goes to work it's just "mom's little job" for a bit of "mad money". They seem to carry that idea even when the wife earns more money than the husband. It's really just an extreme application of the "traditional" gender roles.
I knew Bored Panda would find a way to make a man responsible for a woman's volitional act. How on Earth is a woman working (and keeping her earnings) an "extreme application of the 'traditional' gender role?"
Load More Replies...When wealthy Greatest Generation women started getting jobs because they were bored, this was quite common. It was their fun money that they didn't need to wheedle from their husbands. Middle and poorer classes were far more prone to pooling resources than the wealthy. Mom had four friends who became almost giddy when shopping, because it was THEIR very own money. Weird.
My wife didn't know lambs were baby sheep. She thought they were different animals entirely. She figured this out at a baby shower while playing a game to match baby animals (words only, no photographs) with their adult counterparts. Needless to say, lamb chops are no longer an acceptable dinner option.
I remember thinking this as a child. And that horses married cows, dolphins married sharks, and dogs married cats.
Load More Replies...Lamb chops come from younger sheep but they are not exactly baby sheep. All naturally grown meat involves something dying. Mutton is just a lamb that got older before it was killed. Last sentence implies OP's wife was willing to eat cute lambs when she thought they were a different species but is now unwilling to eat cute lambs now that she knows they are yearling sheep. == "Lamb is meat from a young sheep, usually under a year to eighteen months old, while mutton comes from an older sheep, often three years old or more."
Good catch. "I'll eat this cute little animal. but not that one we get wool from."
Load More Replies...Not a spouse but I will never forget when a friend (full grown man in their 30s) was shocked to learn that ham, bacon and pork were from pigs!!! When we questioned where he thought they came from he legit saifld he thought they were all different animals but couldn't describe what these unique imaginary species were!!! I was never so shocked and amused that a grown a** adult thought and never questioned this!!!
I just can’t eat cute or baby animals. No veal or lamb for me! ..or rabbit, or deer…
??? What did she think was going on when she saw lambs suckling from ewes in fields???
I mean, there are lots of areas where people don't keep sheep. I can only think of two sheep farms in the area I grew up (it's almost all dairy) and I don't remember ever seeing lambs suckling in either of those fields as we drove past.
Load More Replies...I'm 63 and have had 9 years of college, including a law degree and a Master's in Social Work. Until very recently I thought ponies were just young horses.
She procrastinates cleaning until the task becomes unnecessarily difficult, which means she takes forever to clean, which means she hates cleaning, which makes her procrastinate. She also talks in her sleep, and that can be pretty funny sometimes. "If my pants have two holes in them, why are three parts of me tired?"
The first half of this sounds like ADHD. I’m the exact same way with cleaning.
Procrastinating is, or can be, a sign of a deeper issue (ADHD, depression, etc). But that first line was a little alarming on a different level. Do they not help her clean?
Not necessarily alarming. I'm the same way with cleaning, but I still won't let my SO help me with cleaning certain things/places
Load More Replies...My husband talks in his sleep. During the COVID lockdown in the UK we hosted many online quiz's. After one such quiz and far too many drinks I'm sat in bed scrolling through my phone and he's snoring. Out of nowhere comes "AND THE ANSWER IS D!" I almost peed myself laughing.
She sounds like me! I HAVE to clean on Sundays (because I know I won't do it during the week), but I never end up starting until after midnight. And yes, I have to work on Mondays. So I'm always tired on Mondays. There's a solution to it, but I'm a massive procrastinator and just can't seem to get started earlier. :(
Sounds kind of like ADHD, to be honest. As someone with ADHD, I can attest to the fact that cleaning is our Hell because we get either overwhelmed by everything that needs doing or we get distracted while we clean, then the next minute, half the dishes are done, a quarter of the laundry is completed, half of the wardrobe has been rearranged, the shower is clean in one spot and you've burnt the soup you were making while fussing over the dust on the kitchen window sill.
Or it could just be lack of will or energy as it is in my case.
Load More Replies...No one likes cleaning, though. What we like is everything being clean.
My wife cannot read an analog watch / clock for time. Married 4 years, been together 7 years total, and somehow that came up only a month ago when I asked for the time off a watch during a power outage.
I don't give her a hard time about it, but that was a fun fact to learn
Same! I mean, I know HOW to do it. I just have to work at it (count the minutes - in 5's). I can't glance at my watch and say a time.
I've used an analog watch for decades and I still take a second. I remember the 15, 30, 45 marks, and count up in 5s from there.
Load More Replies...It boggles my mind that adults who are smart enough to type comments here can't tell time. I'm sure I learned in grade 1.
Load More Replies...Similar to people who can't figure out a 24 hour clock aka military time. Once you learn it and practice it, it becomes second nature.
I was shocked when I was teaching at a college and a lot of college aged students didn't know how to read a real paper map or analog clocks! Surreal!
My wife is Romanian, lived in Romania her whole life, i moved here 12.5 years ago. She speaks perfect english, doesn't even have an accent. But.....she can't keep the days of the week straight in english. Specifically, Wednesdays/Thursday. Every other day of the week, she's got down, no issues. But come Tuesdays night, she just has a mental void about what day is coming next. Every time she asks and i just look at her while i watch the little hamster in her mind chugging along, and every single time it still ends up a guess. But she always looks so proud when she guesses right lol
Found out my SO, an avid reader, could not read cursive handwriting!
My wife is allergic to all artificial sweeteners. During the second night of our honeymoon we decided to stay in and get some takeout. My beverage of choice at the time was Crystal Light Raspberry Ice which contains aspartame. While we were eating she wasn't thinking and she asked for a sip. About 5 minutes later she became extremely ill and started having issues breathing. After a few minutes she read the ingredients on my beverage and yelled at me "I AM ALLERGIC TO ASPARTAME!!!". Me...being the loving new husband I am yelled back "SINCE WHEN!? YOU NEVER TOLD ME THAT!" She never bothered to tell me because she grew up in a household with no artificial sweeteners because she was allergic.
Wow. I'm allergic to sucralose (splenda) and I definitely make sure to mention it and never drink anyone else's drink; everyone around me seems to drink crystal light.
She probably grew up ignorant to how very common it is in processed foods
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I can't have any artificial sweeteners or sucralose. I get an instant migraine from them as well as nausea. Also heat flashes from an insulin reaction. I miss gum Edit: added one more symptom
I agree, except for the "imbecile" part. There's no need for that.
Load More Replies...How did she expect you to find out that trifle detail, by telepathy? I would have yelled too.
I'm not allergic but I hate the taste of sweeteners, never use them, they taste bitter for me
I’m sensitive to artificial sweeteners and have an allergy to a specific natural sweetener. It sounds like this young lady took for granted that she was fortunate never to have to find out the hard way more than once before her marriage.
That he plays video games. For 10-15 hours a day. Even when he married. And has kids. And has a full time job. With marriage counseling he cut back to five hours a day. It’s now (year 22) back up to about 7 hours a day on weekdays. I never knew marriage was going to be this lonely.
That's pretty sad. I like video games but that's full time escapism. It wouldn't really matter what it was - fishing, working in the shop or whatever - if he is using it to ignore his family.
Wow, this is... Idk, alot. I really love playing games, it is my way of escaping reality, but i would never, ever put games first and my SO second or my kids.
Load More Replies...You can divorce him, you know. It will not impact your life or your kids’ lives much.
You don’t know that. It’s quite likely that if she’s stopped working or reduced hours to bring up her kids, she’s financiially dependant on him.
Load More Replies...My husband and I have an unwritten rule that we cook dinner together, then watch a few hours of "our shows" then I retire to my office to wind down before bed (I have a couch and TV in there) and he gets the big TV in the living room to play Xbox or watch whatever he wants before bed. Then we're still spending time together but have our own time to enjoy our separate interests.
We also play video games together. Even single-player games like Fallout, Skyrim, or Hogwarts. He does most of the fighting and I do the talking, puzzles, and crafting.
Load More Replies...Estimating Sleep at 8 hours, commute both ways 1 hour, work 8 hours gives him 17 hours. if he's gaming 5 hours, that leaves just 2 hours out of 24 for eating, hygine, exercise chores and family. There's no way he's pulling his weight in housework, parenting etc, forget being present as a partner. If he's gaming 7 hours a day, he's probrably doing no housework or parenting at all, and shorting himself on sleep. This can't be healthy for him, and he's effectively absent as a parent and partner. He needs counselling for gaming addiction, and possibly antidepressants. Hope OP can persuade him to seek help.
This is terrifying to me. My sister is dating a guy who loves video games and promises he'll "not play them that much if we're married" and I want to kidnap her and run to Iceland for her sake.
Depends on how much he plays. If it's less than a few hours and doesn't interfere with anything else in his life, you're just being a judgemental a*s.
Load More Replies...Yes. My husband works long hours in his office at home. All he does the other time is watch YouTube in his office. I've just learned to look for the positives, and entertain myself. Besides, he talks non-stop when he's with me. And I mean, NON-STOP.
I played a lot of video games before marriage, and during the first year too. When the baby came, I had to give most of them up because we didn't have time. Today I hardly play, but I'll start again when they grow up. We all have to make sacrifices to have kids, that's a small price to pay.
Well she's not the brightest bulb in the string, is she? Staying with this guy for 22 years!
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My wife informed me that she could not have children AFTER we got married.
This mad me sad.
Being able to prove her wrong made me happy.
"proving her wrong" sounds very different to "us discovering she was wrong"
There are a few conversations a couple MUST have prior to wedding and have worked out. Children is one of them; not just "meh, I wouldn't mind" but the whole range of yes, no, dealbreaker, and the other scenarios of what if we want 'em but can't, what happens if we don't but do have one, what happens if something happens to family that has 'em, etc. Hoping you're on the same page isn't enough, you have to be on the same page and it has to be an open, honest conversation leaving nothing behind.
Yes, yes, and yes. Too many people, I think, see marriage as the end stage. No, it's just the beginning. There's a whole lot of life left after the ceremony. Kids? Where will you live? Religion? Also, there is no compromise between "no kids" and "yes kids". No such thing as a maybe kid or half kid.
Load More Replies...That's kind of a deal breaker. I mean, I don't want children, but she basically lied by omission especially if you two had ever discussed having them.
I really hope this relationship works out better than I'm imagining it does.
Everything about this is honestly concerning. That they didn't discuss having children until after marriage, or she kept it from him. That he wanted to "prove her wrong", like a physical limitation is a dare. Yikes.
That really should have been disclosed early in the dating period. Make people will be okay with it, but many people will not, and hiding that is not right.
This sounds ugly, unless she did want children too. But anyway it should have been discussed before marriage
He likes to eat fish.
Somehow in our six years of dating, I got it into my head that he didn't like to eat seafood. My parents would cook dinner and invite him, and I'd constantly tell my mom, "No, can you make something else? He doesn't eat fish."
My husband loves most seafood, with the singular, random exception of coconut shrimp. We joke about that to this day, that I unintentionally kept him from some of his favorite foods without so much as a conversation about it.
That's a lighthearted answer. I'm sure there are many more. Eleven years in and we are still learning things about one another.
I can't fault him for not liking coconut shrimp. It boggles my mind that people would ruin shrimp by putting coconut on it.
I LOVE shrimp, I LOVE coconut, I DO NOT LOVE or even like coconut shrimp. Yuck.
Load More Replies...My hubs have driven me nuts over the years when it comes to food dislikes. We’d go to make a meal and there’d be something we’d discuss having and he would be like “I don’t like the thing”, or “I don’t eat/drink [insert food or drink]”. Always phrased in a way to state he doesn’t like it, doesn’t ever have it. Fast forward to eating with other people, and there is said thing and he eats it. When asked about it, he always meant he didn’t want said thing/wasn’t in the mood for it. Sigh. I’ve learned to ask questions different ways to confirm if it’s a “don’t like” vs “don’t want”. He’s bass ackwards when it comes to giving directions, so I just assume it’s how his brain works.
youd think the topic of "favourite foods" wouldve been brought up at some point earlier on in the relationship as a way for them to get to know eachother wouldnt you?
Somehow my ex-wife, current wife, and my family all thought I did not like lamb. I don't know where any of them got that idea, because I've never said I did not like it. We just don't have it often enough for me to have an opinion on it. I have had it and liked it.
My husband and I dated for 3 years before we got married. After more than a year of marriage, he let slip that he is lactose intolerant. He knew that I absolutely love ice cream and we would frequently get ice cream on our dates. But he never wanted me to know about the lactose intolerance so that I could be happy with my ice cream.
That's rather silly. There are plenty of things one person can like/enjoy and the other person can let them have it. It's not like he would get ill from watching her eat it.
And yet I hear so often that one of a couple is not using sugar and sweet stuff or even have it in the house, just because the other is diabetic
Load More Replies...Did he just never get ice cream when she did? I'd think you'd be able to tell because of the results of somebody who's lactose intolerant eating ice cream.
To be fair, my boyfriend is lactose intolerant and still eats cheese and ice cream. He just does not care. "Life is too short not to have icecream"
I developed lactose intolerance as an adult, and I mostly ignore it because man I really love cheese
Load More Replies...My late husband was also lactose intolerant and I'm and ice cream junky!! We would go for ice cream, I'd order a hot fudge sundae with strawberries extra. Hubbie would eat the berries and some of the hot fudge and I'd get the rest! Made us both happy. I really miss that!
She’s always leaving the lids on everything un-screwed, and guess who is always breaking jars because he always picks everting thing up using the lid?
The salsa incident! Nothing compared to the pickled onion incident of 2009.
Load More Replies...Lol. My hubs complains about me putting lids on. If I put on a lid, no one else can open it. It’s a running joke in my fam that I have the strongest grip.
Same but reversed in our house. My hubs cranks those lids back on like he's trying to get it back to the factory seal. I absolutely cannot open anything he has closed up.
Load More Replies...How about my husband who can't shut a door completely? He'll walk out of the master bath into the laundry and leave the door jar. He'll open the door to the bedroom when I'm relaxing while reading, talk to me about something inane, and then just leave the door wide open! Drives me nuts! And, he leaves the bath mat on the floor were I have to half step on it when I'm at my sink - I put that in just for good measure.
My husband does this, his hands are more than big enough to grab from the top and around the whole jar. He's trying to remember to screw lids down after I grabbed a jar and shared all the contents with the pantry floor - a couple times.
She is a bit of a genius when it comes to finances. No complaints.
I wish I was. My husband broke both arms. He already wouldn't let me near the check book cause I sometimes switch numbers. So his arms are broken and I had to balance the check book. First month was alright but the next I was off by $300.00. Finally found the error, back at the first of the month. I almost cried. I had to go back and change each entry. All because I wrote the amount but forgot to carry over the $300 from $330.
My wife... she's an accountant for a world-wide corporation. I'm the electronics whiz. She does the finances, I swear at computers etc. Then I go and cook all the meals. 27 years so far!
She changed a whole lot after the wedding. From wanting kids to not, from hating her parents and the way they treated other people to siding with them (her mom was a nurse who constantly talked about patients negatively and her dad was an entitled business owner who tried to run people off the road constantly, awful road rage. They both were the type of "Christians" that give the whole religion a bad name.) She ended up remarrying one of my old college buddies shortly after the divorce.
That was a Buddy not paying attention to the signs in front of their face. I’d almost feel sorry for them but more feel like they get what they asked for and the end.
"Gave religion a bad name" You don't have to run someone of the road for that. Making up lies and taking peoples money for the promise of eternal life is more them enough to have bad reputation.
Yeah, that's not what Christianity is. You can't buy your way into Heaven. But I'm a Protestant, not a Catholic. Indulgences being fundimentally unchristian is one of the major reasons that the Protestant Reformation occured.
Load More Replies...Been with my husband for 9 years total, married for 2. Just last week, found out he doesn’t care for bubble wrap. I. was. shook. When I found out, he asked me “why do you think I always gave you the bubble wrap when I had it?” Well it’s because I thought you loved me and wanted me to enjoy it more! I feel betrayed!
He dunks his Oreos in water instead of milk. I still don’t know why. No, he is not lactose intolerant, and no, he wasn’t poor growing up. He’s not a vegan. And we had milk in the house when I caught him doing this. He just prefers to dunk his Oreos in water.
You in the US? They taste really weird there. The Canadian ones have a better flavour. If you're thinking of how gross they feel in your molars, then... yeah they're awful for that.
Load More Replies...Me too, just because Oreo is already sweet to me and milk is sweet too, double sweet not good for me
Load More Replies...Oreos are tasteless garbage. No idea why people eat them. They are sweet that is all.
That he lives and breathes sports. I knew he *liked* sports when we were dating, but I didn't realize that's *all* he liked. I didn't know he would rather watch football games on Sundays than go to family dinners or anywhere else. I didn't realize he wouldn't want to watch anything but sports on tv. I didn't know that he would want to play or watch basketball/football/baseball/golf every waking moment.
I Didn't Know He Would Prefer Sports to Sex. I was gobsmacked.
Isn't sex a sport, in some respects? It's physical, sweaty, and it uses balls. Sorry, my mother would be ashamed!
Sex is different from a sport in that it's possible for both sides to win. And desirable.
Load More Replies...That sounds like either a mental health problem or the man is unhappy in the marriage and is using the sports as an escape / avoidance thing.
Yeah it doesn't sound normal....boring to live with too!
Load More Replies...>> I Didn't Know He Would Prefer Sports to Sex. Either he knows something about watching sports that I don't know, or I know something about sex that he doesn't know.
My wife and I met at a Superbowl party hosted by a mutual friend. We both love the same team (I would never switch teams for a spouse, lol). Neither of us watches any other sports, but football season time is our favorite time of the year. Football has not caused issues for our sex life.
Oh my g, I felt that to my core. My ex husband turned out to be the same way. If he was home, we watched sports. Being married to him, I learned there is some form of college or professional game on tv all but two days out of the year. After the Super Bowl and after the World Series. And on those days, you can find something pre recorded to fill the time. But, being married to him, I discovered I actually like baseball (and I prefer the minor leagues since I can usually find a live game to see wherever I live if I wish. I already knew I enjoyed college football before meeting him. Having a sister that enjoyed wrestling as we grew up, and my ex also being a hardcore fan, I learned how to enjoy watching that soap opera for masculine types.
How do you hide this in the first place? What did they talk about when they were dating? Did he schedule dates around sports games?
I bet if she dressed as a football player, sex would be a new interest!
Does he watch women's sports, or just big, sweaty men? All the straight jocks I know also like sex.
When my mom and dad got married, she didn’t know that he didn’t have his front teeth until the morning after the wedding. He was wearing dentures, and I guess she just never saw him take em out. YIKES
My wife thought that I didn't know she had an upper plate. I told her that I noticed them the day I met her, they were too perfect to be real.
My fiancé has his front tooth missing and wears a fake tooth I just saw the little cute braces and didn't know why he waited a year to tell me in case I left him and I didn't care at all, just shocked but I love it and I'd miss his little braces if he got it fixed properly
i don't see how this is such a big deal. Teeth issues are PITA for so many. It's not always something you have a say in because of health, etc. I lost a great many of my teeth to cancer and the associated treatments.
Idk, I'd be might be saying yikes if all of a sudden my now-husband smiles at me without his front teeth 😅 It would've been kind to mention he has them so you're not scared they fell out mid sleep or something.
Load More Replies...That she sneezes like she trying to scare the s**t out of you (scream sneeze). I’m still not used to it now (ten years later). F**k, it’s loud as hell. Our poor daughter gets scared and says mommy you’re too loud. But in public she “can hold it back.”
I don't scream, but my sneezes are unusually loud. I sneezed in the same room as our family piano and I heard the strings inside vibrating like I had thumped it with my fist. I CAN make it a bit quieter if the setting dictates but it often hurts when I do so.
My dad is obnoxiously loud when both sneezing and blowing his nose. He can't seem to blow it without making a giant honk, like he's an angry buffalo. :) It was so embarrassing when we were kids.
My mom was of Irish heritage so we used to call her sneezes the banshee wail
Ugh! My husband sneezes without the "ah" first, just the loud "choo!!!" so I'm never prepared for it. It startles me every single time. He tried using jazz hands as a signal, but of course it doesn't work if he's not within eyesight. Oh, the hardships we face...😜
I scream sneeze. My wife choke sneezes, sounds like she's choking to death. Even 30 years into marriage we still both say "are you OK" when the other one sneezes.
I do a mildly loud ACHOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU so I normally get a few laughs at it
People only vocalize when they sneeze because they think they’re supposed to. They grow up hearing it and normalize it, and adopt it. “Achoos!” are affectations. Deaf people don’t “achoo!”
I'm a loud sneezer - just can't help it. I can stifle them but it hurts to do so. Also, about 25 years ago a colleague stifled a sneeze and ended up paralysing himself. Something went in his spine. He was years in a wheelchair and on crutches and finally was able to walk properly and ride his bike again after 10-15 years. Don't stiffle your sneezes if you don't have to.
That she was adopted. In fairness, she didn't know either.
I know of more than one person who didn't find out they were adopted until they were adults. This is not the way to do things. Kids need to know and when they do they will be fine with it. Finding out years later when you didn't know can lead to all sorts of issues..
Agreed. An adopted child needs to know they were adopted as soon as possible/as soon as age permits understanding/comprehension - one, children tend to deal with it much better, and also because they need to know that their familial medical history might be completely unknown. I found out I was adopted when I was 7, because I was snooping in my parents' rolltop desk upstairs and I found a Polaroid photo of a woman holding a baby. The photo was labeled "Rose and Crystal, 1982". I was very confused because I knew that that was my birth year and my name (Crystal), but my mom's name was NOT Rose. When I took the photo to my mom to ask, both she and my older sister started crying. When everything was explained, I said "Oh, so like when we adopted Split? [our dog] Okay." and I went off to play XD (My older sister is my adoptive parents' bio child.) It has never bothered me that I was adopted, though I do wonder how long my parents were planning on waiting to tell me about it. If I hadn't found that photo due to snooping, who knows XD
Load More Replies...kids need to know if they're adopted, not just because they have a right to know the truth but also for medical reasons
That he would make a fantastic father.
Nope, I knew. I knew my first husband was NOT someone to have kids with (we were young. He has a daughter now and is an EXCELLENT father, but he would not have been at that time), and I knew my now husband would be an amazing, loving, dependable, and patient father. Our son is 12 :). They do everything together.
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We were both on the same page in a newspaper. It was found a couple years after we were married.
Before they knew each other, they were both in the same section of the newspaper, in 2 different articles 😂
My husband lived in the apartment above me 2 years before we met. It was weird to find that out
Awe this is sweet. Does anyone remember the couple who discovered they were in each others pictures from years before they even met?! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/14/married-couple-discover-photo-of-them-both-from-11-years-before-they-met
A friend of mine eventually told his now wife that he didn't actually know French.
He had been teaching her jibberish phrases.
That's kind of a serious one IMO. Lying about speaking another language (or anything) is bad enough. Wasting someone else's time learning things they later have to unlearn is an extra level of crappy.
I thought it was kinda funny at first, but yeah, you are so right!
Load More Replies...My husband is really good at saying words backwards (sdrawkcab ) and convinced our son that he knew “Himalayan”. It is still a huge joke in our home.
My father taught me (a nonsense) Chinese alphabet. I, in turn taught it to my kids, who in turn taught it to oldest granddaughter. It was only when reciting it, my eldest realised it was total gibberish, as she'd really thought she knew some Chinese....
C’est stupide, honnêtement ! Apprenez le français tout de suite pour le bien de votre femme!
That might be cute for a day or two, but to keep doing it longer than that is just gaslighting.
That I am solely responsible for her dreams, and I don't mean the want to have kids one day kind (have those) I mean the type where she wakes me at 3 am and begins the conversation with "You wouldn't let me have the f*****g window seat" because apparently in her dream I wouldn't swap seats with her on the plane. She was mad at me for at least a week, this sort of thing has happened a few times .
In a dream, my husband did something to make me very angry. (I've no idea what it was now.) I explained the dream to him, and asked if he could possibly apologise as it would make me feel better, although I fully agreed he didn't have anything to apologise for. He grinned at me, then apologised for his bad behaviour in mu dream. ;o) It was a lovely, loving action, and I greatly appreciated it.
My wife has extremely vivid, realistic dreams. Once she dreamed I cheated, and while awake she said she knew it wasn't true, and yet it was so real she was angry at me for a few days. She kept apologizing for it, but couldn't stop it...
I had 3 days of her not talking to me because I'd cheated on her in a dream.
Life tip - if you're committing dream infractions, you've done something else to p**s them off. Probably something small and nonsensical that even they don't realize. The dream of you taking over for Bin Laden is just the human way of processing that subconscious emotion.
Load More Replies...This was a storyline in Friends, Phoebe was mad at Ross because of something he did in her dream.
I really hope this is not true, cause this is not ending well if it is.
Ok I can speak to this personally.... I have very vivid dreams and have woken up terribly mad at my spouse... But my dreams are really irrational... One night he cheated on me in my dream with a prostitute and I was more mad that he didn't use a condom with her than the fact that he cheated..... He now tells me to stop sleeping lol. The rage usually goes away in a few hours once I realize it is silly but it feels really strong when I first wake up.
My wife hates lime flavored things. She is fine with lemon though.
But... they are the same ---- according to a bar tender in Thailand who gave me a "cuba libre" made with lemon instead of lime. (spoiler - not the same)
In some parts of the world the lemons are green and they don't have limes, and in others the word for limes is 'green lemon' in the local language. Put those two together and you may start to understand the confusion.
Load More Replies...I agree. Limes have a bitter yummy taste. Lemons are more bright and no bitterness, more acid.
Load More Replies...They taste different, and when flavoured lollies or whatever, the taste is even more different
Just how much she REALLY loves Christmas. We lived together before we were married, and it wasn't that bad. But the moment we said "I Do"...It changed. Now, she starts the Christmas train in f*****g October. I'm talking the tree, garland and god damn Michael Buble. When I asked her about this, she said "Oh, we're married now. So you have to like this too." Purely joking but damn.
How insane his mother is. He was clear that they had a difficult relationship when he was growing up and that he is really close with his dad because of her behavior. Since we’ve been married she’s been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder, and her health professionals say it’s likely she has genetic degenerative neurology (Huntington’s).
Huntingtons...devastating disease. It isnt the person's fault if that is what she has. There's no cure, a 50 /50 chance you'll get it if one of your parents has it, and progressively earlier onset as it goes through the generations. Many folks with Huntingtons commit suicide as opposed to the alternative. I am so very sorry for her if this is what she has.
And he should definitely get tested before the couple has kids to determine if he's a carrier.
Load More Replies...He has aphantasia. It's a neurological condition where you can't recall memories as pictures or create images in your mind. He cannot and has never been able to picture what he is reading in a book or say, conjure an image of a forest or person in his mind. He can't imagine my face when I'm not there, though its not like he forgets it. I'm the total opposite and always picture everything in my mind- I'm an artist and my job would be hard if I couldn't- so to me its like in a way he's blind. Its just a different way of experiencing life I guess, but I was really sad for him when I found out. We lived together before we got married so no surprises like how he kept his toothpaste or anything. (Horribly and weirdly squeezes from the middle. We have 2 separate tubes and it's great lol).
And apparently up to half of all people have no inner monologue. I am personally picking up the slack for four or five of those people.
I've got about 6 of them to I'm sure we are making up for them
Load More Replies...Seeing as experts/doctors estimate between 2% and 4% of people have aphantasia, it is categorically untrue that "more than half" of all artists have it.
Load More Replies...It's very common, and for most of us it's never been a problem. I was shocked in later life to find that when people said 'picture this' they could literally bring up an image in their head. Still blows my mind to try and imagine that. In other news, it explains why I was always so bad at art.
I suggested meditation to a friend. She told me she has tried but it is difficult because she has aphantasia. We did not have a name for it til just now.
He's basically a goat in a human body. He'll eat anything remotely food like, sleeps 20 hours at a time if given the opportunity, and is super messy.
She says pamplet instead of pamphlet. Things are different now.
I like making up nonsensical expletives. like "i am about to s**t my udders" or "I am ready to throw a f*****g hamster" they're the most fun because of the reaction we get and the puzzled laugh we get from people questioning their reality when they hear them. my best, in Afrikaans is "... ek kan n ystervark kraam" translates to ", you could give birth to a porcupine (and not feel anything)"
An ex of mine used to say "bow and arrow transplant" instead of "bone marrow transplant". In all fairness, she is french, so a bit of a language barrier. Also, one time, she couldn't think of the word for tree bark, so she gave up and went with "tree skin"...it was hilarious.
My husband can't pronounce February correctly. Misses that first "r" every time. My step daughter and I find it endlessly hilarious because otherwise he is extremely intelligent. Like he's in Mensa intelligent.
In Australia we generally cut out a whole syllable and say 'Feb-ry' 😂 unless we are making an effort to sound 'professional'.
Load More Replies...For years i said "Die koel is deur die kers" (the bullet has passed through the candle) instead of "die koel is deur die kerk" (the bullet has passed though the church"). The first one made more sense to me. It means in Afrikaans that we've passed the point of being able to turn back/ Passed the point of no return.
My husband completely undresses from the waist down to go #2. He says he needs the freedom.
Lol. My guy would strip completely naked every time, if it was feasible , for the same reason. Freedom.
You wouldn't do it in my place. Too bloody cold. And on another thought I can't imagine you would do it in Australian critters.
Load More Replies...In my own home, I'll oftten outright remove pants and underwear, but this only started when I began using a squatty-potty.
Load More Replies...She microwaves cheap shredded cheese on a plate until it's crispy and then picks it off and eats it with her fingers.
I do this but instead of using a microwave I spread it on a pizza pan and bake it
I never knew it worked in the microwave! I like it when some falls off when doing a sandwich in the sandwich toaster.
That she is completely untrustworthy. She manipulated me the first two years of our marriage into doing ONLY what she wanted by threatening to divorce me if we didn't. I truly loved her, I really did, and so I thought I was just doing things for her because I loved her and loved seeing her happy. Until I found out, five years later, she had been having an affair with her boss. Then I started to really examine everything, and saw everything for what it was: she'd lie something believable to get what she wanted, she'd spread errantly false rumors because she got off on watching others squabble over an issue that either never existed or never came up, she'd lie to friends, family, and coworkers about events that did or did not happen... how many other affairs she had is unknown. But she refuses to believe that she ever did anything wrong, and in classic narcissism, continues to play the victim card.
That her family was more important than me, and more important than our family even after we had kids. We're divorced now. Her new boyfriend looks like a combination of her brothers.
I feel like this is a thing you would figure out before you got married.
What an absolute goofball he was. He was always so serious when we were dating. Now he can’t carry on a serious conversation. Definitely some pros and cons there
There is so much pressure to act/appear a certain way while "dating". My wife and I had exactly one formal "date". Instead we just hung out together or with varied groups of friends. She caught an early glimpse of the "real" me (moody and cynical, but also kind, funny, and very loyal), and I guess liked it!
I discovered my wife is a hoarder, and doesn't want to throw anything away. She's gotten better over the years, but it's still an issue.
You never know when that thirteen year old Snickers wrapper will be useful. JK. I have a real problem parting with anything. Always feel it will come in useful, someway, someday.
Mine is the same, but it comes from not owning anything at times, so I have to coax her into getting rid of things. Getting better though, where is my box of cables...?
He’d never been to a funeral. It didn’t come up until we had to attend one & he had questions.
My daughter is 24 and has never been to a funeral, in contrast I was 8 when I first went to one.
I was three and a half, it was my baby sister's funeral. Unfortunately, I remember it, I did not take it well.
It can be so hard! My first was when I was 7, but then my older brother died when I was 12, and it was much harder. My youngest brother was about 2 and had the same disability, so he took it really hard. He was clinically depressed, though many people didn't believe it, because he was so young. He gave up eating because of it, so had to get a naso-gastric tube. Thankfully he did bounce back eventually.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately, I attended my first funeral at nine years old. It was my maternal grandmother. I don't remember much about her before her stroke, but I remember her very vividly in the nursing home.
My wife can't whistle, and she's never had a sloppy joe.
I'm sorry why is her never having a sloppy joe something worth being suprising? (legit had to google what a sloppy joe was)
Probably a generational and class thing? It would blow my mind too (working class Xellenial).
Load More Replies...Well, she can order that sloppy joe by speaking to the waitress directly. There's no need to whistle.
She often shoots a thin stream of saliva out of her mouth when she yawns. Apparently she more consciously covered her mouth beforehand
It's called a gleek I believe not sure on the spelling (at least thats what i was always told its called). Happens when ur tongue moves a certain way u have a saliva gland underneath that will shoot saliva out if it's moved just right
Ffs I’ve always wondered how I managed to do that. So there’s a little %#^* saliva sprinkler under there. That explains it!
Load More Replies...I learned to do that when I was about 11. I could never do armpit farts but you know being able to direct a little bit of water at somebody was gross and cool too.
Not me, but my mom found out decades later my dad was married when he married her, so yeah, my dad’s a bigamist.
The heaviest penalty for bigamy is that you have double the number of in-laws.
She owns Hanson’s entire discography.
My husband doesn’t like the smell of old books. I grew up loving old libraries and old books. He can’t stand them. It was a gradual realization not a dramatic reveal. Also, and much bigger is that he has no conflict resolution skills. 20 years of marriage and we’ve never actually resolved an argument. We just wait until I quit being mad long enough to have lots of sex and we’re good until the next argument. The times we’ve tried to work through things always made it worse. At least we still have great sex.
This seems like something a therapist would be great for. Zero conflict resolution skills is a little vague, but I've found that often translates to one or both partners not having the skills/tools they need to process how they feel in a healthy way. Helping you work out how to do that is a big part of what therapy is/does. If you can afford it, therapy is awesome.Then you can, hopefully, have great sex and feel heard!
I'd like to unlike this comment just to be able to like it again.
Load More Replies...I think maybe "waiting for the sex" *is* his conflict resolution skill.
I think he has a pretty good conflict resolution skills from what you wrote
He's a slob. Apparently, while we were dating he was on his best behavior, but after? Dear god. Clothes everywhere. Hats everywhere. Paper everywhere. He throws dirty clothes next to the hamper. My biggest beef is how he'll just set dirty dishes on the island rather than walk an extra five steps to put them in the sink. Also, he loses *everything*. He's lost so many sunglasses that I had to put my foot down and tell him he can't buy any more. At $200 a pop it ain't happening. He loses his wallet regularly and he had his apple watch for maybe three months. Once, he lost $300 between work and home. He swears he had it in the car and didn't stop anywhere on the way home. So where it went nobody knows. If I had the money that we've spent on s**t he's lost in the last 20 years, I could pay cash for a brand new car.
It kind of sounds like there is something more going on. Pawning / selling things for drugs / hookers / gambling or something.
That is a pretty huge leap, sounds like he has undiagnosed ADHD. I was this guy from ages 10-20 until I forced myself to take 5 minutes before I went anywhere to make sure I didn't forget something and it still happens from time to time.
Load More Replies...Wow... Sounds like ADD or something.... My hubby the same way.... Going to throw away trash, he'll see the water needs refilled so he sets the trash on the counter above the bin and gets a pitcher out to refill the water while getting the pitcher he notices the shelf wobbles and sets the pitcher on the counter to go and get his tools.......I could keep going, he sure does!
that's me, too. I can't tell you what I do all day, but by bed time, I've done 600 things and 0 work to show for it.
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This wasn't after the wedding day, but after he put a ring on my finger. His Dad starts telling me all these traditions for the wedding and for when our future children are born. We had been together for 4 years and they only told me these things once I was fully committed, my fiance seemed so secular before the engagement but apparantly not.
But she didn't say it was bothering her. Maybe she's not against it.
Load More Replies...My ex told me his middle name was James. I saw afterwards on his driver’s license that it was John. He would lie about random stuff all the time, for no good reason.
My husband told me he had grown up in my fathers home town (to break the ice I guess) and it wasn’t until over a year of marriage while filling out paperwork did I find out that he had actually been born somewhere else. He forgot he had lied.
I moved to my hometown when I was 5. I lived 4 places before, don't remember any of them, except preferences, because I was too young. Preferences include loving seafood , despite living in the prairies, and loving old buildings, despite living in a city mostly built after 1960. I lived in Washington DC and ate off the wharfs as a toddler.
She liked to poop with the door open
I wasn't ALLOWED to close any doors at home when I was growing up. Didn't matter if it was the bedroom door or the bathroom door, NO doors were allowed to be closed AT ANY TIME. I always had to go to the bathroom with the door open. My family also had zero boundaries, so if I was taking a poop, my mom would walk into the bathroom and start doing her makeup at the mirror, or my sister would come walk in and get into the shower and start showering. I finally escaped at age 39 and I've lived with my bf for 2 years now in a house where I can CLOSE DOORS anytime I want to! I can poop with the door closed! You have NO IDEA how healing that is for my psyche and mental health!
Liked to? Well, a little odd if it's an active "like", perhaps, but I wouldn't generally shut myself in unless there were others in the house (apart from my wife, I mean). Why would you?
I'm sure your wife would appreciate a shut door. My dad would do it while in the same bathroom my sister and I were using to get ready for church - there was another bathroom with just a toilet and sink. He grossed me out in so many other ways.
Load More Replies...I loved how a lot of these were positive things. I was fully prepared to read an entire list of people who regretted getting married because they found out something terrible about the spouse but there were only a few of those
My exhusband and I lived together for 5 years before we got married. Several months into our marriage, I found out that he hadn't filed any income tax during those 5 years. Not just not paying; he just ignored the whole thing. This was a massive warning sign that I should have paid more attention to. One of the many reasons I divorced him was his inability (or refusal) to deal with his financial obligations.
I just learned this past summer after 10yrs of marriage, 15 together, that my husband's absolute favorite dessert-type food are donuts. Donuts!! I was floored!
I dated someone for 6 years, met him when we were teenagers and it was a dreamy first love and loss story. Got together again as adults and he invited me as his date to his best friend's wedding. He was the best man. During the bridal march he sang The Prayer, Andrea Bocelli, sounding exactly like him, incredibly rich, beautiful tenor voice. I was in awe and in shock and in tears. We were always goofing off as kids and smoking weed and laughing hysterically all the time. It was a really beautiful wedding and he was so gorgeous! I still get butterflies thinking about those times.
After 30 years together, I just recently learned that my husband has never cleaned a mass air flow sensor. He's a journeyman mechanic and I'm just an apprentice, so I was pretty shocked. Beyond that, I'm pretty confident that I know more about him than he does, at this point 😆
I loved how a lot of these were positive things. I was fully prepared to read an entire list of people who regretted getting married because they found out something terrible about the spouse but there were only a few of those
My exhusband and I lived together for 5 years before we got married. Several months into our marriage, I found out that he hadn't filed any income tax during those 5 years. Not just not paying; he just ignored the whole thing. This was a massive warning sign that I should have paid more attention to. One of the many reasons I divorced him was his inability (or refusal) to deal with his financial obligations.
I just learned this past summer after 10yrs of marriage, 15 together, that my husband's absolute favorite dessert-type food are donuts. Donuts!! I was floored!
I dated someone for 6 years, met him when we were teenagers and it was a dreamy first love and loss story. Got together again as adults and he invited me as his date to his best friend's wedding. He was the best man. During the bridal march he sang The Prayer, Andrea Bocelli, sounding exactly like him, incredibly rich, beautiful tenor voice. I was in awe and in shock and in tears. We were always goofing off as kids and smoking weed and laughing hysterically all the time. It was a really beautiful wedding and he was so gorgeous! I still get butterflies thinking about those times.
After 30 years together, I just recently learned that my husband has never cleaned a mass air flow sensor. He's a journeyman mechanic and I'm just an apprentice, so I was pretty shocked. Beyond that, I'm pretty confident that I know more about him than he does, at this point 😆
