‘They made a cup of tea... oddly’: Couples Share Their Funniest Moments When First Moving In Together

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Oct 1, 2024 7:00 PM EDT

Ah, love! Isn't it beautiful? When you're first falling in love, you can see no wrong from your partner. Everything is roses and sunshine. Eventually, you two decided to move in together. The idea of it sounds so nice—you get to spend every night with the love of your life! What could be bad about that? Well, you truly don't know someone completely until you have lived with them. You never know what they're doing when no one is around and it might surprise you. But if you love them, you can overcome them! 

A Reddit thread recently shared their "what the…" moment after first moving in with their partner. Silly little things that they just didn't expect any person to ever do because they were never taught that. From weird cleaning habits, to no cleaning habits, to weird sleeping or bathroom habits—everyone has their own thing. But love still lives on! See some of the funniest stories below. 

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    "Not long after buying a house with my partner I had my first (of many) genuinely flabbergasted moment..."
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    What was your ' are you doing?!' moment after moving in with a partner? FINEEE, I'll go first AA So, not long after buying a house with my partner (2 years ago, after 4 years of being together, but never living together), I had my first (of many) genuinely flabbergasted moment.
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    One night after washing up, I catch him ramming leftover food down the kitchen sink like he's trying to destroy evidence. Obvs I ask what on EARTH he is doing. His deadpan response was 'what? They do this in America??' We live in the UK, my guy. Where regular kitchen sinks are very rarely black holes that double up as food disposer.
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    I was shooketh that this man had made it nearly 30 years around the sun, confidently applying American logic to British plumbing for no valid reason whatsoever. I dread to think of how many innocent and helpless sinks he has blocked. Would love to hear your are you doing?' moments! More outrageous the better
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    Agreeable_Fig_3713 19h ago . Mine had never used detergent in the washing machine. Just put the washing in closed the door and pressed 'on'. Assumed it just happened. The annoying thing is this can fix anything. Takes it apart, replaces parts, sticks it back together all while filming it for YouTube but can't fling a cup of powder in aye?
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    davdavUltra • 18h ago In my parents house we always used to change the duvet sheets by one person getting inside of the new sheet inside out and the other person. passes the two corners of the duvet to you and then you turn it right way round over the duvet. Yaknow to make sure it is in all the corners. So while my partner was doing the pillows I put the fresh duvet cover on top of me and shouted 'Im ready'. She turned around and said what the are you doing. I guess that was just a my house thin
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    Internal-Leadership3 19h ago • More a during-the-move story than an after one this. We'd bought our first house together and I'd rented a van to move all of our stuff from our two flats, working myself to the bone from 6am the day of the event, when at 1pm she suddenly stops assisting telling me "oh I agreed to make a wedding cake for so and so months ago" and then spends the next 4 hours doing exactly that. We are still, miraculously, together.
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    DundeeDude • 19h ago . They made a cup of tea... oddly: Milk-> teabag-> water-> sugar. I had to have a wee sit down in a dark room.
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    . Popular Sea530 - 19h ago After about 6 months of living together and getting issed off with cleaning the toilet all the time I raise it. This UCKER says 'toilets clean themselves they're full of water'. Oblivious.
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    IAMACiderDrinker 19h ago • He did ask the question before doing it but... the first week I moved in with my ex, I texted him on my lunch break and said there was a chicken in the fridge, and could he put it in the oven at 4pm. He said OK, then he texted me at 4 to ask if he needed to take it out of the plastic wrapping and the polystyrene tray Everyone I have told this story to thinks I'm lying because no one is that stupid ①
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    Al Bee 19h ago . Storing bottles and jars after finishing using them by gently balancing the lids on and NOT them on at all. Took me a while to remember this. Until I did we had any number of spills when I picked up bottles by the lids only for them to come off just as I've moved the centre of balance just enough for the thing to fall over. She doesn't close drawers or cupboard doors either.
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    . TomYumHaggis · 18h ago Didn't wash the handles of pots because "the food didn't touch it”. "Cleaned" the dishes in that weird, seemingly British way of soaking the dishes, lightly wash with a sponge in that jank soaking water and putting them on the drying rack without rinsing.
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    aimeewarhorse 18h ago • My partner would cut spring onions for a recipe. And then THROW AWAY THE WHITE BITS. Ya know, the bits with the flavour. 7 years we'd been together before I caught him doing it. He was in his late 30s. - Oh and he also used to open bread by ripping a hole in the middle of the loaf bag. Th Facebook memories still upset me.
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    • Present-Technology36 18h ago My ex never cleaned the bath tub, her excuse was that it cleans itself after she uses it. I had to explain to her that no it doesnt, all that dirst that was on you is now in the tub stuck to the sides. She didnt realise you had to clean a bath tub and her mother used to do it for her.
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    Chicklecat13 • 17h ago He handled raw chicken and then after touching it HE WENT AND TOUCHED THE UCKING FRIDGE! Ooooh no no no no no, not just the fridge but then proceeded to touch the oven, drawers, cutlery whilst rummaging through the mother drawers!!! Then rubbed his nose with salmonella hands and then caught be watching because I was gagging. He didn't see anything wrong with it! This used to work in a McDonald's kitchen. I genuinely was wondering if he was trying to kill me on purpose.
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    EDStraordinary 17h ago • My now husband is completely allergic to wearing any kind of tshirt. or top at home. When we first moved in together it was a weird shock to the system after only ever living with my parents who are showered and dressed before breakfast and wouldn't be seen dead in a state of undress outside of their bedroom/ the bathroom. The second the front door is shut off comes whatever clothes adorn him from the waist up. I can now gauge if hubby is ill or feeling run down based on
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    . bonehag 18h ago My ex not once, not twice, but thrice sautéed and served me a cucumber thinking it was a zucchini. He had never learned to cook and was learning how to boil spaghetti.
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    S4FFYR 17h ago • We lived in the US and had bought a house with one of those early 2000s built in intercom systems. It didn't work anymore, but removing it meant patching the sheet rock in every room. I came home from work one day and he's all proud of himself- he'd pulled the main intercom out of the wall in the living room. And then promptly stuck a giant canvas portrait over it to hide the hole. He never did repair the dry wall and we sold the house with a giant hole in the living room wall.
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    Frabbit4life 13h ago. . Had a boyfriend that would go to sleep normal but in the middle of the night change sleeping position to sitting cross legged bent over at the waist with his head toward his feet. He said it was the only way he could sleep as a child and still did it at in the middle of the night about half the time. Real weird the first time with no warning.
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    RyanandRoxy • 18h ago My wife gags when she brushes her teeth... And she brushes her teeth for a WHILE. I honestly probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference between that act and her choking to death.
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    Omnissiah40K • 19h ago Seeing my wife attempt to cut pizza with a pair of scissors
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