Probably one of the scariest yet intriguing things about human nature is the slow process of showing one’s true colors. It’s like peeling a banana. Before you get to see the reality, you’ll need to go through the skin first.
However, it’s not always a negative thing. Let’s take it into a romantic relationship context. Even though you’ve been with your partner for years, there is no guarantee that you fully know them. As time goes by, there are still interesting things you’ll get to know about them. Either it’s negative or positive.
1. Liked It After All
He likes to eat fish. Somehow, in our six years of dating, I got it into my head that he didn't like to eat seafood. My parents would cook dinner and invite him, and I'd constantly tell my mom, "No, can you make something else? He doesn't eat fish."
My husband loves most seafood, with the singular, random exception of coconut shrimp. We joke about that to this day, and I unintentionally kept him from some of his favorite foods without so much of a conversation about it.
That's a lighthearted answer. I'm sure there are many more. Eleven years in, and we are still learning things about one another.
echapmancarter
2. The Clean Guy
He's really good at doing household chores. Between us, I do all the cooking, and he cleans up. He even makes sure the cutlery air dries on a cloth before wiping down the water stains.
He developed a cleaning procedure to make sure the black marble kitchen top is spotless. He never ever leaves the dishes for the next day, no matter how late the dinner ends (which can be really late when we entertain guests)
Also, he has a fondness for the latest household gadgets. The robotic vacuum cleaner was a really good buy - now he's eyeing an electric lock, so we will never need to carry our keys again.
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3. Blinded Mind
He has aphantasia. It's a neurological condition where he can't recall memories as pictures or create images in his mind.
He cannot and has never been able to picture what he is reading in a book or, say, conjure an image of a forest or person in his mind.
He can't imagine my face when I'm not there, though it's not like he forgets it. I'm the total opposite and always picture everything in my mind- I'm an artist, and my job would be hard if I couldn't- so to me, it is like, in a way, he's blind.
It's just a different way of experiencing life, but I was really sad for him when I found out. We lived together before we got married.
No surprises like how he kept his toothpaste or anything. Horribly and weirdly, he squeezes from the middle. We have two separate tubes, and it's great, lol.
Nyx_Shadowspawn
4. Unjust Finance
I’m happily divorced now (almost 12 years now that I do the math). Still, after we got married, I learned that she viewed her money as her money and my money as our money.
It was interesting because before we got married, my money was our money, and she didn’t have money to speak of. So, yeah.
It’s not that I was even making good money. But after we got married, she got a well-paying job, and suddenly, her money was hers, and mine wasn’t mine. It didn’t last long after that.
BleedingTeal
5. Allergic Reaction
My wife is allergic to all artificial sweeteners. During the second night of our honeymoon, we decided to stay in and get some takeout. My beverage of choice at the time was Crystal Light Raspberry Ice, which contains aspartame.
While eating, she wasn't thinking and asked for a sip. About 5 minutes later, she became extremely ill and started having issues breathing.
After a few minutes, she read the ingredients on my beverage and yelled at me, "I AM ALLERGIC TO ASPARTAME!!!" Being the loving new husband, I yelled back, "SINCE WHEN!? YOU NEVER TOLD ME THAT!"
She never bothered to tell me because she grew up in a household with no artificial sweeteners because she was allergic.
maxxian
6. A Complete Headache
He's a slob. Apparently, while we were dating, he was on his best behavior, but after? Dear god. Clothes everywhere. Hats everywhere. Paper everywhere.
He throws dirty clothes next to the hamper. My biggest beef is how he'll just set dirty dishes on the island rather than walk an extra five steps to put them in the sink.
Also, he loses everything. He's lost so many sunglasses that I had to put my foot down and tell him he can't buy any more. At $200 a pop, it ain't happening.
He loses his wallet regularly and had his Apple watch for maybe three months. Once, he lost $300 between work and home. He swears he had it in the car and didn't stop anywhere on the way home.
So where it went, nobody knows. If I had the money that we've spent on crap he's lost in the last 20 years, I could pay cash for a brand-new car.
BustAMove_13
7. Good Harmony
My husband loves telling this story. He is a big meat and potatoes guy. On our honeymoon, I told him that I was becoming vegetarian.
It was something I’d been thinking about for a while and couldn’t implement well while living with my parents. When we got back from vacation, we fell into a routine where I did all the cooking.
It turns out that he is lazier about cooking than he likes eating meat. Also, it turns out I’m a pretty good vegetarian cook.
He now eats vegetarian whenever we are at home and gets meat at restaurants when he goes out with his friends. He’s totally happy with it (truly!). It has been ten years. He’s the best.
Bluesiderug
8. Unresolved Issues
My husband doesn’t like the smell of old books. I grew up loving old libraries and old books. He can’t stand them. It was a gradual realization, not a dramatic reveal.
Also, and much bigger, he has no conflict resolution skills. Twenty years of marriage, and we’ve never actually resolved an argument.
We just wait until I quit being mad long enough to have lots of making out, and we’re good until the next argument. The times we’ve tried to work through things always made it worse.
InstitutionalizedRum
9. Tons Of Love
My wife has a phobia centered around eating red velvet cake. She just can't do it. The sight of it triggers anxiety. I found this out while at a first neighborly get-together after we moved in.
Coffee and red velvet cake on the menu. When the hostess brought out the cake, my wife turned ghostly white. I thought she was having a heart attack.
She whispered to me in a desperate undertone, “I can't eat that... please help me.” I took one on the chin for her and ate it like a boss while everyone just looked at me in disbelief.
mike_the_man
10. Water Species
She's a great swimmer. One day, after we'd been married for about seven years, we joined a gym with a swimming pool. She challenged me to a race.
Ok, I thought, I'm a pretty good swimmer. I was surprised when she offered me a half-length head start and then doubly surprised when she beat me easily despite my massive head start.
Apparently, she used to be a competition swimmer at school. She's basically half-dolphin. But she'd never happened to mention it before.
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11. The Other Side
That the whole Mr. Nice guy, Mr. Sweet kind, generous, compassionate thing was a mask, an act, a disguise and camouflage in order to lure me in, in order to possess and control me.
Then, after we got married, the mask came off. I was too naive to recognize the red flags beforehand and fell into the trap. He faked being exactly the type of person that I wanted him to be.
Honestly, it was devastating to discover that the person I fell for never actually existed. Thank goodness I escaped. He was a true horror underneath.
Elin-Calliel
12. Legend’s Tongue
How good his palate was. When my mom and dad were first married, they'd do some local food fests, going to different stalls and trying things.
My mom has always loved things like mushrooms and seafood. So they'd double back for certain booths. One was these stewed mushrooms my mom was crazy about.
They got them about six times in one afternoon, and my Dad finally asked, after buying the sixth order, "Hey, think I could get this recipe? I wanna make 'em for my wife."
The chef laughed in my dad's face and said it was a secret family recipe. He wouldn't give it to him even if he begged. My dad, however, was a line cook. Who spent 95% of his day cooking and running a busy kitchen.
My dad ate one of these mushrooms and started listing off every ingredient. My dad's palate was so refined back then. He could tell just from that alone... and my mom knew he wasn't kidding because the chef's face kept getting paler and paler as my dad went on.
The next day, he remade it exactly. My dad was an amazing cook. Honestly, one of the things I miss the most is our time in the kitchen.
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13. Sunshine And Rain
My husband has a very bad temper. Anger is his primary emotion for nearly all other unpleasant emotions. He hid it well when we were dating. Now we’re married, and the guard is down.
Hurt his feelings, and he gets angry. He’s tired? He’s angry. He’s anxious? Anger. Confused? Anger. Pride hurt- anger. Slow driver in front of us? Anger.
I’m fairly certain he has an issue, but to directly suggest so would only make him... angry. He’s working out how to address this because I can see it will be a real marriage killer.
I, on the other hand, burp rainbows and fart sunshine and am in a good mood 99.9% of the time. So there’s a real disconnect there.
LittleWhiteBoots
14. Unknown Blindness
I discovered my wife couldn’t see, at least not well. Years after getting married, when I finally had a good health plan, she said she would like to check her eyes.
She was prescribed eyeglasses, which she now wears constantly because, without them, the world is blurry. I can’t imagine the fact that she suffered from it.
When she first looked at me after putting them on, she said, “I didn’t know that you had freckles on your face!” We’d known each other for how long by that point?!?
accomplicated
15. Hidden Skill
He can juggle. It was this very thread, but maybe five years ago, and the woman posted saying she'd not found out her husband could juggle until after they got married.
I was like, "Lol, look at this, it's so random! As if you wouldn't know they could juggle". I guess I naively assumed it would come up as a party piece at some point. Well, he nonchalantly replies, "I can juggle."
I, of course, don't believe him, so he grabs a few apples, juggles them whilst kneeling down and getting up, and sets them all back on the side.
So all you wives out there, go ask them if they can juggle because that seems to be what they're hiding!
MyHusbandIsAPenguin
16. Troubled Sleep
My surprise came seven years after we were married. He always snored.. horribly. But, due to his job as a driver, he finally had to get checked out for sleep apnea.
After the sleep study, the doctor said he had to pull him off duty immediately... he couldn’t legally allow him to drive without first proving he was using the machine. That’s how ridiculously bad his apnea was.
So, he starts using the machine, and for the first time in his adult life, he now has proper rest. For 7+ years, I would have told anyone and everyone I was married to a quiet man, easygoing, and not a lot of strong opinions.
It turns out I was just married to a man who was always half asleep. Lol, He became SO much more talkative and opinionated... but that was six years ago... and I couldn’t be happier that he woke up and I could get to know him all over again :)
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17. No Touching
That she does not really like physical contact in the form of playing around. I am very touchy in a physical way but not grabby like emotionally.
Basically, I like to poke and grab and be silly, but that doesn't jive with the wife. The bigger problem, I guess, is that this is how I express my like or love for someone.
All my other kids love it. I feel like I cannot be myself or that if I am truly myself, which is just stupid and goofy, she gets angry, and I am left feeling like the one thing I thought was good between us is actually bad for her. Disappointing and makes me feel lonely.
DiegotheConqueror
18. OUR House
One day, my wife decided she wanted to be a minimalist and started giving away/donating furniture and stuff. Like big stuff such as our king-size master bed (I went to mattress on the floor and clothes on wire bakers racks), nightstands, and dressers.
Also, most of our dining room. This was stuff I paid thousands of $ for. She said having all that furniture was "Materialistic."
She even said that because there are only two of us, we only need two plates, two forks, two glasses, etc. I was livid, but she would get rid of something almost daily while I was at work. Now we have a 3br/2.5ba house that looks like we just moved in.
I had to explain to her minimalism is a design concept, not just giving away all your stuff. Every time people come over, I have to explain why we don't have anything in our home. I wish I knew this about her.
lampshade2818
19. Ignored Facts
I found out my wife is not Hawaiian. She's got the classic Maui look, and I don't mean the movie. Somewhere along the way, our arguing turned debating turned dating, and I knew that she was a stubborn Hawaiian native who had moved to my state. I'd ask her about life in Hawaii.
She'd give me a look and say it was probably fine. She'd introduce me to her family, all living in or around the Rez on the western coast. And it still didn't stick. She'd speak Navajo to her great-grandmother, and it still didn't stick.
On our honeymoon in Cancun, I finally asked if she'd ever like to go home to Hawaii someday and see the place her ancestors came from.
She started laughing uproariously. Apparently, she thought I just had an obsession with Hawaii rather than I completely failed a basic A-B-C test of inductive reasoning.
Navajo family visiting the Rez on holidays and speaking Navajo rather than ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi - must be really into state-bound Native Americans for a Hawaiian!
MiserEnoch
20. Not For Aesthetics
About 3 years into marriage, our church's piano player moved away. That pastor asked if anyone knew how to play, and my wife volunteered, to which I was shocked.
The next Sunday, she played like a concert pianist. This never came up in the seven years I had known her. It was so dumbfounding.
When I asked her why she never told me, she replied, "We have a piano in the house. I didn't think it needed to be said." Well, I thought it was for looks.
rpretzle
21. Life’s Fate
That her health was as bad as we feared, I knew about her health problems. She was very up-front about them early on in our relationship. When we got married, things hadn't progressed as quickly as we originally feared.
I was optimistic that maybe they would never get that bad or there would be better treatments before permanent damage was done. We've been married just over five years now, and things have gotten bad the last year.
It's very clear that her condition has caused some permanent damage, which has resulted in additional conditions developing.
We were afraid she would lose her sight by age 30, and while that's not going to happen now, there are days when she can't even walk or get out of bed and other days when she only moves with a walker.
It's not exactly how we envisioned life in our late 20s, but you just gotta roll with it and hope for the best. Losing her sight would have been 100x worse for her and likely permanent. There is still hope of reversing the fatigue and dizziness that prevents her from walking at times.
say592
22. Knitting Skill
My parents were married for over 20 years before my mom learned that my dad knew how to knit. In fact, he could knit better than she could.
Apparently, when he and his siblings were young, their grandma wanted them to be self-sufficient and taught them a lot of things like sewing and knitting.
My mom asked my aunt about it, who was like, "Oh yeah! He was the best one out of all of us at it." Just never came up in the almost 30 years they'd known each other, haha.
It was discovered when my mom was having difficulty figuring out how to do a certain stitch in a pattern she got on the internet.
She asked my dad if he could make sense of it. He looked for a minute, then took the workpiece and finished the whole row in seconds, lol.
flamewave000
23. Chilling Buddy
My ex-husband and his "bathboard." After moving into our apartment, I noticed a random flatboard just chilling in the bathroom.
Asked him what it belonged to, and he said, "Oh, nothing, that's my tray." Cue a bewildered look. He would put the "bathboard" across the tub, run a bubble bath, take his laptop, beer, and smokes - and be in the bath for 1-2 hours.
Totally thought this was his way of sneaking to watch weird things (not that he had to) - but nope, he was just chilling, browsing random stuff, sometimes playing a game, and relaxing in his bubble bath. Still, to this day, it makes me chuckle.
weasel13
24. Discovered Songbird
So, my wife and I have been together for 17 years. We're both teachers, and recently, my wife started teaching at my school. One of the kids heard about it and said, "Oh, that's your wife? She's cool, but damn, she sings. Like a lot."
And I thought, did she? I told her the story, and she asked, "Do I?" So we started paying attention. And holy moly- she sings EVERYTHING.
Like, she never stops singing. We realized that the habit had spread to one of our daughters. How did neither of us ever notice?
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25. No More Frustration
She had no idea that windshield wipers had a speed adjustment knob on them. One day, we're driving, and she's frustrated because her wiper basically only has three settings: Off, Slow, and Fast.
She needed "something between slow and fast." Because fast was too fast, but slow was too slow. I'm just staring at her as she's talking.
She kept mentioning how, in this day and age, you'd think they'd make an adjustable wiper speed, and if someone invented it, they'd be rich. I just reached over and adjusted the speed with the knob. She was amazed.
CNNWillBlackmailYou
26. Huge Wonders
My wife didn't understand the concept of rhyming. I just realized it last year. We had been together for 12 years when it came to light.
We were talking about song lyrics, and she didn't get why the lyricist chose particular words. And I was explaining the rhyming quality, and she just didn't get it.
I then had her try to rhyme words, and she absolutely couldn't do it. She's a brilliant doctor and loves music, but I have no idea how she never picked up on what rhyming was.
It was hard to grasp, but we've been working on it over the past year, and she has been making incredible strides but still makes mistakes.
She speaks two languages, so I know she has that ability, but it absolutely boggles my mind that she struggles with the concept of rhyming.
redmoskeeto
27. Oversized Toddler
That he essentially expected me to become his mother. I was expected to do 100% of the housework, cooking, yard upkeep, and pet care.
Shortly before we got married, he decided he hated working, so he quit his job and decided he didn’t need to get another because I could always just “make more money.”
During these ~3 years of not working, I was expected to come home after working a 50 hr/wk job, make him food, walk and feed the dogs, and then praise him like the god he thought he was for anything he did.
I also had to literally bathe him, followed by watching him play video games until he felt tired. No, I wasn’t allowed to do anything else while I was expected to watch him play video games.
He would also get really angry if I passed out at 10 pm because he liked to play games until at least 1 am. Never mind that I had to leave for work at 6 am, and he usually didn’t wake up until 2 pm.
I think in the course of those three years, I can count the number of times he actually put on clothing on my fingers. Yes, we’re divorced.
N0th1ngRlyMatters2Me
28. His Past
I found out my husband was in special education classes as a kid. We had been together about 4 or 5 years and married for 1 when he felt comfortable enough to tell me.
I knew he wasn't great in school and struggled with different things, but I figured he was just an average student who found school boring.
It finally clicked why he was very sensitive when I would tease him a little about his terrible spelling or simple math mistakes. I feel awful about it now.
It breaks my heart because he is extremely guarded and ashamed of it. He is an amazing man. He is hard-working, loyal, kind, smart, and handsome; I am a very lucky woman.
Now that I know, I never tease him about anything. He struggles with reading, so we started reading books out loud to each other at night before bed. It's a nice way to wind down for the evening instead of watching TV, and it helps us connect more,, I think.
ascase5273
29. Family Ties
I learned that he has absolutely no backbone when it comes to his parents. We were supposed to rent an apartment from his parents after we got married.
But when we got back from our honeymoon, they refused to hand him the keys and kept saying to ask the other parent, and hubby wouldn't ask why.
After a week of being in their house and not knowing what was going on, I finally said I was leaving and that he could call me when he'd figured out what he wanted.
We got the keys that night and moved out. Only to have his parents walk into the apartment the next day, no call, no knock, me in a shirt and thong making out with my new husband. I ran to the bedroom and stayed there all weekend.
It's been eight years of the same clown show, and I still love him, but sometimes, his lack of a backbone chips into my love for him.
indiandramaserial
30. The Craftsman
My hubby is obsessed with fixing broken technology. And he's brilliant and creative, so he makes new stuff with old parts and scraps.
I knew he was kind of a geek, but this is so major and over the top. I love it. He's automated most of our house. Lights in the living room, bedroom, and kitchen.
The coffee pot. He has made/is making a little fridge that chills the liquor and dispenses it at the push of a button. I had no idea he was so brilliant, creative, and so good with his hands. It's amazing.
junebugcarterlarson
31. Uncovered Fear
My husband is afraid of heights! We were in Tasmania, climbing this walkway wrapped around this elaborate network of trees.
It took us out to a suspension bridge that hovered very high above a section of the river where two rivers meet. I gladly bounced along on the suspension bridge.
All I could hear was nervously groaning behind me. I turned around to see my husband pale, sweaty, and holding onto the side rail. He was having a panic attack and had no idea why until he tried to walk towards me and couldn’t do it.
I was at the end of the suspension bridge and taking photos, and he was literally about to vomit. Poor dear. He’s 6’1” too.
lestatisalive
32. Marriage History
Well, not mine, but my grandma's. So when she married my grandpa, she didn't know he already had a whole family with kids in another place.
Didn't know till after my mom and eldest uncle (the first child) were born. Not sure exactly when. But my mom told me when she was a little kid, no more than 10, she went to the area where the other family was.
She thought it was a regular family trip. There, she met with her half-sister for the first time. They hang out while the adults sort things out.
My late half-aunt asked her if she knew who she was. My mom said no, but she liked her. My aunt told her she would know eventually. And she looked forward to seeing her next time.
She knew shortly after she got home. For some reason, none of them had a divorce. Probably because it wasn't common back then, and women felt obligated to stay with their husbands no matter what because, well, patriarchy.
My grandpa was and still is an entitled, self-centered jerk. My two grandmas don't really get along, but all my uncles and aunts do.
Especially my mom and my eldest aunt. My mom was devastated when Auntie died of complications because of cancer three years ago.
MarshieMon
33. Gamer In Silence
She is extremely good at Mario Kart and isn’t a gamer, but I am. It’s my primary hobby. I’ve won money from certain gaming competitions in my city for the back story.
Bought a Switch. Played MK for a few days, and then she wanted to play a round with me. I went easy the first half of the race to be a gentleman.
Then, I realized there was no way I could win even if I tried. Seven straight losses later, I admit defeat. Apparently, her cousins who babysat her only really played MK for years in her childhood. I was weirdly excited by the beatdown.
AlesHemmertime
34. Lies For Money
My husband lied to me about money. He told me he had a certain amount saved, but he spent it all and racked up his credit card. I felt really dumb because I had been so openly trusting.
It really hurt emotionally, and I was also really anxious about our financial stability. He was really mean for a long time when it all came out.
We went to counseling, and it seemed to help, but then things got bad again. It wasn't until he finally took a look into himself that things just got better.
He said watching The Good Place made him really think about how his actions affected others. He had been very sad because his father had recently died, and he tried to medicate the feeling by playing a computer game that was essentially paid to play.
He was embarrassed when I found it out and took out his negative feelings on me. I'm really proud of him for figuring stuff out because it's been over a year since, and our relationship has been back to being wonderful.
ifyouwanttosingout
35. Strange Noise
We sat down for breakfast the first morning of our honeymoon, and I kept hearing this squeaking noise. It’s bugging the crap out of me, and I ask her if she could hear it.
She says no, and we finish breakfast, but I keep hearing this terrible noise. I’m now on high alert, and as she goes to take a sip of her orange juice, I realize, as the juice makes its way down her throat, that the noise is coming from her!
She had the loudest swallow I ever heard, and I was like, “Ok. Um. Wow. We are married, and she makes noise to drink.” (I’m one of those people who is irrationally irritated by eating noises)
It never stopped bothering me, and it never got better, but I’ve always loved her the same, only more as time went on. The funniest part of the story is, two years after her death, I’d give a whole lot of valuable things just to hear her annoying swallow sound one more time.
idctbhname
36. Brain Works
So we have been married for almost three and together for 7. I did not know he was a hypochondriac until September 2nd of this year.
He was bitten by a tick and looked to be Lyme disease. He believed that, so he took off work for three weeks because he was such a mental wreck.
Since then, he thinks he has Lyme, cancer, leukemia, lupus, HIV, insomnia, some rare sleeping diseases he found online, along with various other ailments.
He constantly reads about different diseases and tests. He is convinced that he has something, although he has been tested for everything, and all results are perfect. I am at my wit's end. He only talks about this, and I want to pull my hair out.
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37. Social Battery Limit
My husband is now learning that I really am quite serious about not being able to handle guests for more than a few days. It’s a real deal.
Three days is fine. Four is acceptable. 5, you're now pushing it, and they better leave before dinner. Getting into the 6th day at all involves tears and panic, and things are NOT OK.
He thought I was just being bratty. Add on a cultural difference about how much time one spends with family and a challenging MIL, and you've got yourself a drama surprise pie for the holidays.
EpigenomeEverything
38. Social Class
She grew up super poor. She always called my parent's middle-class house huge, but I thought she was just messing around.
I discovered this because she kept getting Vienna sausages and eating them out of the can. I asked her why she would eat those, and she finally explained.
It was her family's only real source of protein since they mostly only had ramen or rice, so she still thinks of it as a treat.
They lived in a horrible neighborhood, and the only furniture they had was mattresses on the floor. I still buy her Vienna sausages when I go to the store. I do, however, call them beanie weenies.
RandomHerosan
39. Family Culture
That she had a completely messed up sense of what a marriage would be. Per her parent's culture, she would live with them until she got married, which I was apprehensive about, to begin with.
She was extremely close to her family, way too close. After we got married and she moved in with me, she was basically only home to spend the night.
It was crazy. She would get up in the morning, drive to her mom’s house, eat breakfast with them, and then go to work. After work, she would drive to her parents, stay for hours, and eat dinner with them.
Then, come “home” in time to take a shower and get ready for bed. It was crazy, and I tried to explain over and over that’s not how a marriage works or living together.
It only stopped after I talked to her parents and told them that I was going to divorce her since we weren’t really married as far as I was concerned.
Nonamesfound
40. Huge Impact
That being with him was the best decision I’ve ever made. Leading up to the wedding, I was freaking out. Soon after he proposed, we started having the worst fights. I recognize now that I was sabotaging.
We’d been together nine years, and suddenly, I thought my life was over. But then our wedding day came. It was perfect. Just went to the courthouse with two friends and got breakfast afterward.
As soon as it was official, a calmness flowed through me, and I felt safe and wanted the world for him and me. Also, now that we’re trying for a baby, he has a weird fascination with wanting to be in the room when I pee on the stick... could it be a fetish?
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41. Sweet Guy
Found out that he didn’t know how to spell my middle name! He printed our vows and framed them, and he spelled my middle name, Bryanna. It’s Brianna!
We had a good laugh about that one! And I also found out that he doesn’t like pancakes. He just ate them because I made them, and he didn’t want me to feel bad.
He told me on our honeymoon that when I said I’d make us special pancakes, he broke down and actually cried because he was “living a lie.”
Then ranted, saying, “They’re just flavorless batter! Who wants to just eat batter!?” I love that he felt like not liking my pancakes was some deal breaker! Lol
jcweddd
42. Food Choice
I found out before my wedding, but my now husband pretended to like eating red capsicum for over 18 months because I put it in almost everything I cook (I love Mexican food).
One day, he asked if I could leave it out of a salsa that I was making. When I asked why, he said that he didn’t like it but ate it anyway because he didn’t want me to know how fussy he was.
I still make fun of him a bit for it. He could have told me that! But I clearly understand that. And now, ten years later, he eats it on his own.
pecrh001
43. Her Dream Wedding
A few months after getting married, I learned that my wife’s father offered to give us $25,000 instead of spending it on a wedding if we wanted to go for a smaller reception.
My wife didn’t bother telling me because that concept was so silly. Of course, we wanted a $25,000 wedding instead, so why bother bringing it up!!
That money could have paid off nearly all of our combined debt going into the marriage and still allowed us to throw a pretty sweet party for our friends and family, but yeah, what a silly concept.
Rhiow
44. Food Obsession
She turned out to be a big foodie. Especially Chinese food, which I don't like very much. Before marriage, the food habits were all civil, but a few weeks in, I began to see how much she loved food.
Over the years, the habit has rubbed onto me, and now I am a food freak, and she is just an onlooker most of the time. Then there is the cleanliness part.
While I want everything clean, organized, and spic and span to the level of OCD, she has a more laid-back attitude on everything that requires organizing, planning, and cleaning. This ruffles a few feathers occasionally, but I generally overlook it, considering how much I love her.
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45. So Close, Yet So Far
DH and I discovered after we were married that our paths had crossed many times before, but it was a very specific environment when we would actually meet.
We were so close all of those years, yet so far. Before the meeting, he sold me shoes (likely many times). We frequented the same small bar for years but never actually met.
One Halloween night at a more obscure bar, his friend helped me with my costume in the bathroom. Hubby and I were sitting at tables side by side that night, yet we never met.
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