RelationshipsOCT 22, 2022

Someone Asked Men To Share What They Learned From Living With Women That They Didn't Know Before, And These Are 30 Of The Most Surprising Answers

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Going from living all on your own, with your family, or with a few roommates to moving in together with your partner is a huge step. For one, the romantic dynamic can become very different. You’re spending far more time together and you start dealing with mundane household issues like dividing up chores, syncing up your showering schedules, and claiming your side of the bed.

You start seeing your partner in a different light: you notice more of their quirks and how they behave when they fully let their guard down. It can be fun, endearing, and incredibly surprising.

The men of Reddit revealed all of the surprising things that they learned only after they moved in with a woman. We’ve collected the most fun and interesting responses from these two r/AskReddit threads to entertain and illuminate you, Pandas. Odds are, you might relate to a lot of these tales.

How was life changed for you after you moved in with your partner? How do you decide who does what chores? Do you have any advice for all the Pandas who haven’t yet lived with someone they love? Share your wisdom and experience in the comments. And if you'd like to read some more similar stories, check out Bored Panda's previous article right here.

#1

Someone Asked Men To Share What They Learned From Living With Women That They Didn't Know Before, And These Are 30 Of The Most Surprising Answers

How much they really don't like to wear bras.

StrawHatCook, Martin López

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#2

Seducing a woman you live with starts with doing the dishes...

anon, MART PRODUCTION

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477points

#3

How totally feral and uncivilized I used to be. It turns out that sunscreen is a thing! Decorating your home can make it look really nice! Doctor's checkups are important!

There's a *reason* that men who are in relationships live longer.

wolfdreams01, Collins Lesulie

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When it comes to getting along with anyone—whether it’s your partner, family member, friend, or coworker—what really helps is setting expectations, communicating openly, and clarifying boundaries if needed.

Nobody’s a mind-reader (as far as we can tell, at least), so if you’re upset about something or you’d like your partner to give you more of a hand with the cooking, cleaning, etc., it’s best to have an honest but friendly chat about it. Passive aggression won’t lead to anything good.

#4

The hair. I just don’t understand how she can shed that much hair and not be bald. It’s literally everywhere.

blinded33

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#5

The toilet seat AND lid belong in the down position when it's not in use.

It looks better and the dog doesn't drink out of it.

anon, IgorVetushko

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317points

#6

Nothing puts the fear of God into a woman like the threat of someone showing up unexpectedly & seeing how she really lives. Multiply that by a factor of 4 if it's her mother in law.

AlienBloodMusic

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However, living together with someone doesn’t mean that literally every single waking minute has to be spent together. That’s not too healthy. Both partners need to understand that having some privacy is completely fine.

People need some space and time to be alone with their thoughts and hobbies. You don’t have to sacrifice your entire life and personality just to keep your partner happy. On the flip side, you shouldn’t expect that your partner will overhaul everything about themselves just so you can keep living as you always did. Some compromises will have to be made, eventually. Figuring out what a shared life looks like is part of the fun.

#7

If they come home at night and don't expect you to be home, make some kind of you-specific, but non-threatening noise somewhere on the other side of the house BEFORE you say hi to them. DO NOT just pop you head around the corner and say hi. Girls coming home at night to an "empty" house are in pins and needles, even if they don't know it.

cinred, Aleksandra Sapozhnikova

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#8

They’re just as gross and slobby as we are.

ssgt_chell, Adrian Swancar

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#9

That the difference of "I'm not hungry at all" and "I'm going to eat you alive because I'm desperately hungry" is about 5 seconds.

auad, Artem Labunsky

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254points

#10

Women have objectively better sense of smell than us. What stinks to them is mild for us.

DAVasquez-

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243points

#11

For a year, I lived with four girls when i was in college.

I don’t have a sister and at the time never had a serious girlfriend.

I learned a lot about cycles.

Theirs synced up. I didn’t know that was a thing. During that time, or dare I say, period.....it was so much fun dealing with the tearful emotional anguish of things like, “who ate my macaroni and cheese!?!!”

I was like, why have my roommates all gone psychotic at the same time?

apex_editor

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#12

They both, always have to pee yet don't feel like peeing. Basically a Schrödinger's bladder situation going on.

ccrunn3r4lif3, AllaSerebrina

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#13

When I moved to my current city, I moved in with a guy that has obviously been living on his own for awhile. He only bought toilet paper one roll at a time, because he felt like extra toilet paper was unnecessary clutter. By month two, I couldn't stand it anymore, so I bought multipack and kept it in my room.

I'm making him sound like a weird tight ass, and he really wasn't. I just don't think he had any understanding of how much toilet paper women use.

spiderlegged

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#14

I learned that their vaginal secretions bleach their underwear over time. Empirically I knew their bajingos have a basic pH, but I didn't expect them to bleach their underwear just by wearing it.

EDIT: Bajingos have an acidic pH. I was drinking last night and messed up my pH scale. Either way, acid washed jeans are essentially bleached too, so the fact that their bajingos bleach their underoos still applies.

anon, littledropofpoison

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