What surprised you about your partner once you moved in with them?

1. Discovered recently while drinking with friends by the girlfriend complaining loudly about it, one of my close mates, her boyfriend, gets in a different side of the bed every night. Refuses to pick a side, and once he's in, he ain't moving. We all took her side!
   — justsomeharmlessfun


2. When I went to get some vegetables out of the crisper in the fridge and discovered it was full of batteries. He insists keeping the batteries cold extends their shelf life. I would eventually like to convince him the same thing is true for lettuce.
   — LJGHunter


3. Just how amazing of a cook she is. Her family told me that they complained about her cooking shortly after we moved in together. I told them all her cooking was unbelievable. She's half Chinese and half Vietnamese and grew up in a very traditional Asian family. Her fried rice is killer. She just whips up sauces all the time that could single-handedly put Newman's out of business. Her soups are not only delicious, they have some sort of magical healing powers that knock out colds in a single sip. I'm a very, very blessed guy to share a home with my girlfriend.
   — reed12321






4. She practically sheds her clothes as she walks around. Every now and then I'll find a sock on the couch, not both, just one of them. A jacket thrown on the floor somewhere. Right now there are 9pairs of shoes by our front door, 8 of them are hers (we even have a lots of storage for shoes in the hall, but nah). Yesterday I found a belt on the floor of the kitchen. I love her, and I'm not perfect at cleaning up either, but damn.
   — smells_like_blue


5. How different our paces are. I get home, immediately start making dinner, then I eat, do dishes. Then I do whatever else I gotta do that night, and finally, when everything is done I relax and watch TV, play video games, etc. She gets home, watches 30 min of a show, calls a friend, starts thinking about dinner. By the time she's done eating dinner its like 9pm. On weekends she'll do chores for 45 min, talk on the phone for 20 min, then do more chores, then watch some tv, then more chores, then read in the backyard for an hour, then more chores. Meanwhile, I'm blasting through 4 tasks at once and I'm done all my chores before noon. Then shes annoyed that I'm kicking back for 5 hours straight all afternoon, and I'm annoyed because I worked my ass off for 3 hours so I can relax and shes asking for help. This was a big thing it took us a while to compromise on, getting into each other rhythms. Now we tackle tasks that suit our pacing styles, and coordinate timings on jobs that require two people.
   — Ganglebot


6. her complete lack of skills to clean up after the mess she always makes. And her total denial of it.
   — Dravendk






7. When she's sleeping, her farts are loud and very stinky. And she sleeps naked.
   — Ixz72


8. He is haunted by a Sixth Sense-esque ghost. Cupboards and drawers fly open as soon as he leaves a room. It has followed us to two different apartments now.
   — verredeverde


9. She can't put lids on. The screw types are cross-threaded. The Tupperware types always have one corner that's not down. It's amusing yet baffling.
   — kramerica_intern






10. How messy he is and how difficult it is to get him to do his share of the chores. "Most of those dishes aren't mine" Yes. Yes they are. I picked them up off your desk a few hours ago. And his shaved off beard hairs in the sink.
    — Inkspots98


11. She's the cleanliest person I know. Yet she fails to flush the toilet often.
    — iaminfamy


12. All the labels on spice bottles, jars and cans in the pantry are arranged so that they're facing out - perfectly aligned - when I open the cupboard door to find something. Likewise, everything in the fridge is organized - all the labels facing straight ahead when the door is opened, with no need to go "hunting" to find something.
    — Back2Bach






13. She's so organized professionally, so disorganized personally, and yet, her disorganization only extends to the clothes, shoes, and hair she leaves everywhere. I'll take it.
    — hopsandhorns


14. He has rocket pubes that launch off his body and attach themselves to every surface in the bathroom. How else can pubes get 5 feet up the shower wall?
    — opkc


15. Even after five years of living together, he still tries to sneak to the bathroom upstairs to poop as if I don't know what's happening in there, lol. Poor guy, as soon as he starts up the stairs at *that* time of day, I tell him to have a good shit.
    — Buloi92






16. I have recently moved in with my significant other and have found out they are a complete psychopath. This is know because we have a towel rack and 2 towel hooks in our bathroom but she will hang wet towels over the door which keeps the door from closing, or just spread the towel out flat on the carpet
    — Fouhr