15 people share the weirdest thing they discovered about their partner after moving in together

In most relationships there comes a time when you decide to take the plunge and move in together. You both traipse around IKEA looking for furniture and arguments ensue over how to stack the dishwasher or who accidentally left the TV on all night. But alongside that comes a journey of discovery, as you begin to uncover all your partner’s quirks and habits that they’ve previously kept hidden. And it seems that our significant others’ foibles are a hot topic, as more than 6,000 people took to Reddit to confess the weirdest thing they’ve found out about their partner since moving in.

And let us tell you, some of them are downright wild…. It seems the kitchen is exposing a lot of our partners’ bizarre tendencies, including how we take our favourite snacks. For @WorldWideWig, they shared their boyfriend’s obsession with Italian food. They wrote: ‘He will occasionally (usually when I’m not around to be appalled) eat dry tortellini straight out of the bag when he’s reading in bed.

‘Dry. Tortellini.’. For another Redditor, it was a classic cinema snack that left them flabbergasted. ‘We were fixing to watch a movie and he wanted popcorn. He said “too bad we don’t have any lettuce.” I asked if he wanted a salad, he said “No, I want popcorn and lettuce,”‘ said @IIITechnician5828. ‘He said he never said anything at the movie theatre because he always knows they never have lettuce.  The man eats bites of lettuce and popcorn together. His whole family does.’.

It get’s weirder too. @MrdnBrd19 wrote: ‘My girlfriend eats Oreos by taking a tall glass and filling it about three quarters full of the cookies then she fills the glass with milk. She then waits about 5-10 minutes stirs it all into a slurry and eats it like a soup.’. For others it’s not what their partners eat but how they use the kitchen itself. ‘While I’m cooking, he insists on opening the goddamn oven MULTIPLE TIMES to check if it’s ready,’ wrote @geek_the_greek. ‘Makes me homicidal.’.

For @thekingofwintre it was the cutlery draw that did it. ‘He wanted to put all the cutlery just straight into a drawer without any divides between knives, forks and spoons. Just… All in there in a mess,’ they wrote. For @inkseep1 their partner takes preparedness to the next level. ‘She has to have a kettle of water on the stove at all times. She rarely uses the kettle. It is in case the power goes out and the well pump stops. We have city water service.’.

While some of us will share a bed before moving in together, that’s not the case for everyone. For some of those who were snoozing side-by-side for the first time after getting the keys, they were in for a shock. ‘He sleeps like a vampire; sleeping on his back, with his arms straight by his sides or folded on his chest. Every. Single. Night,’ wrote @Rag1ngRedHead. ‘Some nights he doesn’t even change his position at all. I was seriously concerned during the first couple of nights we slept in the same bed.’.

For @butt00why, they said: ‘In the middle of the night I will wake up to him having both of his arms straight in the air like a damn zombie. If I lay too close to him when he does this I get a surprise mammogram when he inevitably drops his arms down.’. Another Redditor said: ‘My ex slept with his eyes slightly open. The first night I thought he died. The second night I almost performed an exorcism.’.

It’s not just how people sleep that leave their lovers perturbed, but also what they say during their sleep. ‘My partner talks in his sleep and it’s always just absolute random, silly nonsense,’ @T3nacityDog explained. ‘The most recent one was, in a tone of dismay; “There’s ice cream all over the stairs…” followed by a drawn out “broooooooo”. ‘He also just periodically giggles in his sleep, which, frankly, is one of the most adorable things I’ve ever seen from another human.’.

And of course, people’s waking up habits ruffle some feathers too. ‘He set tons of alarms, but none actually wake him up,’ @brooklynskyeee commented. Whether it’s the toilet or the shower, both can be divisive facilities. For @WeirdConnections, it’s their boyfriend’s loo habits which left them speechless. ‘He gets a weird feeling in his tummy and then goes to sit on the toilet for an hour until he has a bowel movement,’ they wrote. ‘I, apparently, wait until I get the cue to go to the bathroom before actually attempting. As I thought was normal.

‘He quite literally made fun of me yesterday for kicking him off the toilet. “You made me get up to only take 30 seconds?”. Dude you’ve been in there for 45 minutes and clearly nothing was happening if you could just let me in like that.’. @jasmineLaMore was equally as baffled by her partner’s loo routine. ‘He completely undresses before going to the bathroom to poop,’ she said. Her boyfriend isn’t the only one who prefers to be in the nude either. @whitelair2 shared: ‘Doesn’t dry using towel and instead naturally air dries.’.