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Turns out, men's image of what women are like when nobody’s watching is often very far from the truth. Well, blame it on TV and social media, but the reality is often very different.

And how could one better learn about the little female quirks nobody knows about than actually living with them? “What's something you didn't realize that women did until you lived with them?”, someone asked on AskReddit, sparking more than 4k entertaining and honestly hilarious comments.

Scroll down through the most entertaining eureka moments from men who lived with women and had their understanding of the world challenged big time, and get ready to cringe. Are guys really that clueless, you may wonder?

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#1

30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them Spend hours doing hair and make up and doesn't look all that different from when they started.

Also, don't ever say that . I learned the hard way .

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

but then they'll ask...and there is only one right answer. "omg you look perfect!" or meet the "death ray" stare

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them I didnt realize women paid so much for bras until I got married and also ended up paying too much for bras as well.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them When you date a girl and you come to her place, everything is always clean and organized, but once you live with her you learn that she is as much of a slob as you are.

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#4

30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them That women have magically regenerating hair. Otherwise my girlfriend should be bald judging by the amount of hair she leaves around the apartment.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You lose about 100 strands per day, from a head of about 100.000

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them I never realized just how much blood comes out of a woman on her period until I walked in on a friend taking a shower...I honestly thought she was dying and bleeding out.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah it's not just blood either. Lots of chunks/ clots too. It always made me laugh when on shows like CSI they would swab the tub drain, find blood and conclude it was murder. There is another really good explanation.

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#6

30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them Steal my hoodies then complain when I stole her bras.

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#7

30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them When it's time for her to go to bed, it's actually time for us to go to bed.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lots of women do this. I don't and have never understood why women think that the partners should go to bed when the women go to bed.

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#8

30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them Women pee with a pressure hose.

I still get a little scared when I hear a girl have a good piss and it sounds like she's boring a hole through the toilet.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this guy standing behind doors listening women to pee? (Edit: i don't know what kind of doors you have in other countries but usually i cannot hear someone peeing unless the door is open...and i don't have a huge apartment)

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#9

30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them Women use a lot of toilet paper, ALOT.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do we have to explain it again? Yes we pee and after we have to wipe and also we bleed!!! Helloooo!

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them My girlfriend of a year had naturally curly hair that she straightened every morning. Never had a clue.

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#11

30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them My girlfriends burps are far more powerful than mine. I beat her in farts however.

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#12

Take scalding hot showers. It's like the only use the cold knob has is to hold the body scrubber thing.

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#13

30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them That decorative pillows are a thing. You carefully choose and purchase them just so you can spend the rest of your life pushing them out of the way, and occasionally cleaning them.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the stuff, all the cute little useless stuff. that has a perfect place and can never be moved without approval. the pillows have sometimes more rights that you

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them It took me a while to figure out that pads are stuck onto the panties as opposed to right on the vagina!

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#15

30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them Get angry with me for what I did in her dream.

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#16

When I was growing up, my (single) mum would always tell me 'Make sure you put the toilet seat down, your future wife will thank me.'

Second year of uni, was in a house share with two guys (me and another), two girls. I was genuinely shocked that the girls didn't put the toilet seat down. (Okay, so it turns out that there is a difference between the 'seat' and the 'lid'.)

Still, I always put the seat lid down - apart from anything else, when you flush when you're wearing shorts, you realise just how much spray there is...

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's what's the lid is there for and i don't get why this is not common knowledge!

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#17

Different grades of tampons are for heavy or lighter flows, I could figure that.

But apparently wearing a super flow for a week instead of changing out for multiple lights is a good way to give yourself a bit of the ole toxic shock.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, you can’t leave them in for more than ~8 hours. Nothing happens if you go a bit longer, but leaving one in for multiple days is definitely dangerous.

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#18

30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them I still don't know what she does with that weird rock thing in the shower.

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#19

30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them I was about 19 or 20 when I learned women wipe after they pee. It's not that it didn't make sense to me, I just never had a reason to even consider it as a thing. So I was quite dumbfounded when I saw it happen.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Honestly I don't understand why men don't! Watching men's underwear always with a small stain of pee on them after the toilet it's not sexy at all!!

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them Had no clue I loaded the dishwasher 'wrong.'

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can assure you this is not just something that annoys ladies.

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#21

I did not realize that women had to pluck the hair out on their nipples. I was shocked!

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them I was ready for ‘decorative pillows’. I was ready for wall art.

I was NOT ready for bras everywhere the first time she did laundry after moving in.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm impressed she owns more than two bras. Those f*****s are insanely expensive.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them When I first moved in with my girlfriend, I got yelled at for putting 'dirty' clothes with my clean ones. I was totally under the impression I could wear that shirt like two more times.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haven't you ever heard about "the chair"??? This is where you put the clothes that are too dirty to put in the closet and too clean to put for laundry!

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them Women shaving their bits. The first time I saw my girlfriend do this, I was immediately terrified, as if I knew a better way to do it.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them "You don't use those towels, they're for decoration"....For who??

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True. My mother would go mad if I used the guest towel. The result is that I now find it almost impossible to use a guest towel when I'm a grown up guest in someone's house

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#26

My wife poops 3 times a day and it only take like 30 sec! I poop once a day and it take a good 10 mins if not longer.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Believe diet has a lot to do with this. For me cups of green tea is the difference between a 1 long session and multiple short sessions.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them Bobby pins and hair everywhere, suppose I will be okay if fallout happens

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#28

Maybe this is isolated, but how often she's in the bathroom for a pee. My mother and sister never had liquids run through them as quick as my fiance. Like, glass of water she has maybe an hour before needing to piss. It's tons of toilet paper and a bother on road trips.

Our roommate was also shocked that men "pee so loudly". I'm over 6 feet tall, I stand to pee, how the hell do you think I should pee silently?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sitting? And not spraying the whole bathroom maybe? Especially when you are tall!

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#29

30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them Girls actually do that throw all your clothes on the bed thing that you see in sitcoms.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I certainly don't but that may be because of the cats who immediately materialize to shed all over any clean clothes placed on the bed

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That my Sunday morning hangover after a big night out with the boys ( not a regular occurrence ) absolutely meant that the vacuuming had to be done throughout the house then and only then.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Um, that's not a "woman" thing. That's a "someone is mad at you" thing.

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#31

That her hair brush, hair dryer, hair straightener, ect all have to stay on the counter 24/7 despite enot even being used every day.

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#32

Women are always cold...always. I can be sweating in shorts and a T-shirt, but my S.O. will be wrapped in blankets still.

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#33

Take massive poop with nuclear fallout levels.

Like, obviously I knew women poop. But deep down, I guess I never realized it was just as bad as men’s poop.

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#34

In my 10 years living alone, I have never once needed to dump drano down any of my drains. They just never get clogged with the short hairs that go down the drains. I have to dump drano down the drain every 4 months or else I'll get a lake in the shower. And this also happens when I use those shower mushrooms in the drain to collect hair.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Draino is terrible for your plumbing and can give you chemical burns if it doesn't work and you have to actually manually unclog the drain. Just buy a snake

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#35

Cotton balls. Where do they come from? what are they used for? why are they all over the bathroom floor?

these are the questions I ponder when I'm taking a dump.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Ball Joe I'd been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Ball Joe?

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#36

I get ready once, when i wake up. She gets ready anytime we leave the house, this includes a thorough check of every room. When she says "let's go to the store" we are still a good half hour away from leaving.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Depends on the woman. I don’t want to spend my time on that.

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#37

If anything they blast farts with greater intensity, volume and toxicity than us menfolk.

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Women: Clothes/shoe hording. The amount of clothes they have but will never wear and will never get rid of, but will come back around and tell the dude that he has too much stuff.

Dahell?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, I literally have just over a dozen clothing articles and that includes all my shorts to my formals, guess am not alone

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#39

I heard the rumors, but I still wasn't prepared for...

A. the hair pins/hair ties everywhere.

B. my bathroom filling up with more niche (and unreasonably expensive) hair and skin care products on every available surface. I have bar soap, and a thing of shampoo. My last to partners both had at least 20-30 different bottles of product.

C. my hobbies becoming sins, that if I partook of, meant days, if not weeks of random bullshit arguments over tiny little things.

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30 Men Give Honest Answers To What They Didn't Know About Women Until They Started Living With Them My wife will get upset with me about things she sees morons do in a movie.

Some married guy is looking at/flirting with/cheating with some woman other than his wife in the movie, and my wife turns and says, "Now why on earth would he do that?!?" or "What the hell is he thinking?!"

uhm.... because it's in the script?

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I swear my ex was so messy that her bathroom looked like a freshly fought battleground. No joke, I also never knew they farted until I met her.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I start to wonder when women have kids they never fart in front of their kids even accidentally? How come and men find out only a lot later?

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Things I've noted about living with women:

Cleanliness

Women aren't "cleaner" than men. They're tidier than men. There's a difference. Tidy is all about appearance; clean is all about actual hygiene. As long as guests can't see the filth, they're fine with it.

The living room and and kitchen (which people will see) will look like it sprung from the pages of Better Homes & Gardens; their room (which virtually no one will see, unless they're getting laid at which point they won't care) will look like Dresden circa 1945. The coffee table and counter will look surgically scrubbed; they'll have leftovers in the fridge that have been there since Christmas.

Ferrets

Guys, don't move in with a girl who has a ferret. Girls, don't be that girl who owns a ferret.

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Money

Two guys paying a shared power bill

Guy 1: "Ok, it's $500. So we're paying $250 each.

Guy 2: "Fair enough."

A guy and a girl

Girl: "The power bills is $500."

Guy: "All right, $250 each."

Girl: "Actually, I don't feel I should paying that much because I was away for five days last month, and anyway you left a light on in the kitchen while you weren't in it last Tuesday, and plus how much power does your computer use compared to my laptop...so I think I should only have to pay...$100."

Guy: "You leave you damn light on in your room all the time!"

Girl: "Yes, but I can't help that. It's only because Mr. Turtley, my pet turtle, is afraid of the dark..."

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Women:

Use like 3 TP rolls per day.

Leave hairs everywhere.

Take up 85% of all the closet, floor, shelf, and bathroom space but then be like "OMG, quit hogging all the room."

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haha! I'd say pretty much guilty to all but the complaining about hogging space.

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Actually "shake it" after they pee. I had no idea that was a real thing.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What!? That not a thing. How the heck are we supposed to shake it?

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#45

Turns out women are incapable of putting a toilet seat down by themselves.

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Women just leave everything wherever it is when they don't need it anymore.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's my experience with every man I've ever met so far :P

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While guys may leave the seat up, girls never refill the f'n toilet paper rolls.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, we do refill the toilet rolls. You haven't met the right person yet.

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