Men Open Up About 34 Things No One Told Them About Women Until They Started Dating One

Moreover, what is interesting is that we don’t know much not only about a specific person, but also about the other gender in general. And the popularity of various online threads, where men and women exchange their own misconceptions, is further confirmation of this. For example, this thread in the AskReddit community, with 12K upvotes and nearly the same amount of comments in just two days.

The topic starter, the user u/MainDifficult2641, asked netizens: "Men, what did you find out about women when you got a girlfriend?" - and received a whole avalanche of confessions, from the completely banal to the incredibly funny and even awkward. And we, Bored Panda, offer you a selection of its most interesting stories.

Sometimes we’re talking about some fundamental differences in physiology (and, accordingly, a different attitude to hygiene procedures, for example). Sometimes men are just surprised to find that even a standard women's grooming kit is way more expensive than one for men. (Sorry, what kind of men's grooming kit? You mean that 12-in-1 shampoo, soap, and a comb, right?)

And sometimes men, after moving in with their new girlfriends, learn a lot about themselves as well. For example, that they snore, sneeze loudly, constantly lose their socks, and, let's face it, well... pollute the air much worse than women.

What can I say - I personally always considered myself a fairly neat and even pedantic person (and many of my male friends always said so). But when my future wife and I started living together, it turned out that either my friends were completely shamelessly flattering me, or their assessment was excessively inflated.

Although, damn it, I now catch myself thinking that I’ve become much neater in everyday life than I was years ago.

Well, of course, a separate category of stories is mentality. It turns out that if your wife or girlfriend comes to you with complaints about life in general or about some specific problem, then your logical and sometimes instant solution to this problem is often not at all what was actually required of you.

All you had to do was listen carefully and, depending on the situation, express sympathy, indignation, resentment... and, of course, just feel sorry for her. Hmm, even I myself, after twelve years of married life, knowing all that jazz very well, sometimes fall into the same trap, and start gushing with solutions to all these problems...

"Some experts claim that most women are dominated by the right hemisphere of the brain, which is ‘responsible’ for imagination, creativity, and imaginative thinking. At the same time, men, accordingly, are dominated by the left hemisphere - analysis, logic, rationality.”

“In fact, this isn’t entirely true - most brain functions are distributed quite symmetrically," says Irina Matveeva, a psychologist and certified NLP specialist, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment here. "The neural architecture of the female brain is designed in such a way that we, women, give many situations a more emotional coloring than men.”

“That is, we first pass everything through the prism of emotions - and only then look for a logical solution. And when we are offered this solution right off the bat - we sometimes perceive it as some kind of ‘insensitiveness’ of our partner. Which, by the way, is also quite wrong."

"In addition, hormones in the male and female body act in completely different ways, which causes those differences in behavior, so glorified in culture, jokes and memes. But this is already a question, rather, of a separate study. Large-scale and detailed," Irina Matveeva sums up.