Someone Asked What Weird Habits Partners Hid Before Moving In And 35 Folks Had Some Dirty Secrets

My now husband would buy packs of socks and underwear, wear them, and then toss them.

Until we agreed on a sane solution, she would remove her daily contacts and just… throw them on the floor wherever she was. They dry up quickly and become crunchy, sharp little eye germ blights. Absolutely unthinkable to me.

Eating cereal with water, not milk.

She was a baker. Would make all kinds of delicious treats, usually using multiple mixing bowls, utensils, and small appliances.

Would not even rinse them until days later when the batter is dried on like cement or had started to mold in the blender or on the hand mixer or whatever.

I swear when I explained if you rinsed them right after to get the majority of stuff out, it made clean up 10x easier.

She literally did not believe her until I baked something and showed her how easily the still wet batter got rinsed out of the bowl.

She would spend literal hours scrubbing cemented on batter before then.

Thought he kept a tidy house. Nope. Mommy was coming in each week and cleaning up.

My ex would buy washable period underwear and soak it overnight in the only sink we had. You can imagine the view/smell when you're doing anything that uses a sink, especially in the morning, going to work. She was a jobless parasite consuming media and Twitter all day while I had to provide for both of us and would be greeted with this sight every morning during her period.


Every time I told her to use a bucket or some other suitable container I would be called a sexist and would have to grow up.


This is just one but I could fill a book with disgusting/toxic habits she had, most of them just to spite me.

We would buy veggies etc, and if it had the slightest bit of discoloration (not exaggerating) he’d throw it away.

Also he would peel like 8 million layers off an onion before cutting it, essentially wasting most of the onion..

My girl loves peanut butter so much, she has a tub of it next to the bed. And on the coffee table. And in her office. None of these tubs have lids, they are always open with a spoon in it.

I'm concerned that the peanut butter might spoil/ go bad, but she says she eats a whole container every 2 weeks? I still love her like crazy though.

A severe addiction to scrolling Facebook. So bad he would scroll while driving, the instant he would open his eyes he would grab his phone & open the app... All day long. It baffled me.

He literally undresses as he walks around the house. Like I will find socks in the living room pants in the dining room T-shirt in the kitchen. My husband also grew up with a stay-at-home mom who did everything for him and his siblings, laundry cleaning cooking etc. Literally the one thing she did not do was put their neatly folded clothes away in their dressers and closets. Some of our biggest squabbles have been over the fact that yes he is getting better at picking up after himself, but he does it in the most infuriating way. Dirty clothes end up right next to the laundry hamper, dishes and garbage end up on the kitchen counter, instead of in the sink and garbage can.

As far as shocking habits go, I will take this one happily.

My GF eats her M&Ms with a spoon.

Didn't move in, but my first long term high school boyfriend used chewing tobacco and used any empty bottle as a spitoon

First time he invited me in his room I sat on his bed and felt/heard a crunch.

between his wall and bed and all over the floor/under his bed were FULL bottles of dip and saliva.

He and his roommates NEVER took out the trash. Like ever. Huge pile of full trash bags in the kitchen, almost reaching the ceiling, with trash in all the cabinets too. Every great once in a while, they would rent a U-Haul to take it to the dump. So confusing to me, but I didn’t know how to help them break the cycle. Nice guys, but sheesh.

They didn’t know how to turn on a stove, microwave, washing machine, or dryer. Then the one time they made dinner, I was so surprised and impressed that I didn’t say anything when I found the takeout containers in the garbage. I feel stupid for not calling them out on it now but thankfully it’s not my circus or my monkey anymore.

The habit was pathological lying and weaponised incompetence which I only learned those terms after. I really thought they were the only ones to do that too.

I knew my boyfriend was messy, but I put it down to the fact he was living on his own. When I moved in with him, we started by deep cleaning his place. He was then absolutely shocked when he realized I expected him to clean and tidy regularly. I don't know what he was thinking, that we would just do it once when I moved in, and then every six months? Thank God he's somehow improved!