We all have our moments, and some are less fortunate than others. However, Reddit user Careless-Reach1722 wanted to cut through the surface level and asked everyone on the platform to describe the moment they realized their partner was an absolute fool.
The discussion quickly went viral, and the stories range from innocent and funny to confusing and borderline alarming. If there’s a common thread, though, it’s that whenever you idealize someone, just spend more time with them, and you should be eventually reminded that nobody’s perfect.
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#1
My wife recently told me she shouldn’t have gotten a speeding ticket because she was in “the fast lane”. I asked her why that matters, and she looked at me like I’m an idiot and said… “Because there’s no speed limit! That’s why it’s called the fast lane!”
She pays for her own auto insurance now.
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#2
When I tried to explain that “just because you have never experienced racism it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.”.
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#3
I was dating a girl, an engineer of all things, we got along pretty well but she was a far right enthusiast and I’m more of a left person, but ok, fair enough.
Then one day we were talking about stuff that we diverged a lot like guns, abortion etc.
Then when I talked about global warming she was like “well but you know global warming is fiction created by the USA to control the poorer nations and prevent them from growing right?”
And then I was like “sure. Now next you’ll tell me the earth is flat”
And she did just that.
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#4
I think a lot of us found we were living with anti-science anti-vaxxers. Didn’t see that coming.
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#5
My ex-husband had a 40th birthday party for me. He only invited his parents, his brother and his best friend. He didn’t invite anyone for me.
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#6
When he yelled at me and said “you’re supposed to mop before you sweep”.
Careless-Reach1722:
I went silent for a minute after reading this.
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#7
He came round the house with a burn mark on his neck. Had tried to iron a crease out of his tshirt… while he was wearing it.
3 months later did the exact same thing.
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#8
I once dated a woman who was a lawyer. I’m also a woman and she argued against gay marriage.
Big surprise that one didn’t work out.
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#9
When he asked me if he could use dish dishwashing soap in the dishwasher I said no and told him what would happen. Guess who came home to a kitchen bubble bath?
Went out to lunch with my cousin and aunt. She had moved to England from Canada a few years back. He asked her if it was difficult learning the language.
When he told his friends I was his trophy wife. I didn’t want to embarrass him, so I just laughed. Later in the car, he told me I embarrassed him, and I told him he embarrassed himself. He asked me why, and I had to define what a trophy wife was and why I am not. I am much higher educated and make more money than him, I’m older than him, I spent very little time on my outward appearance and definitely he doesn’t pay for any of it.
We are divorced.
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#10
He thought the movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was a documentary.
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#11
I definitely was not in a relationship with this girl, just seeing each other, but she did tell me that she didn’t believe in dolphins. Reasoning? She has never seen one in person.
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#12
When he told me our son with a lung condition wasn’t really that sick. That he just had a cold. No I can’t bring him to the er. I’m being dramatic. 24hrs later I called an ambulance. ICU for 9 days. Still tries to tell me it was all in my head. That he really wasn’t all that sick. Also not the first time he’s done this and my son ended up in the icu. There’s been thousands of other things but this is one I will never forgive. Hoping he will be my ex this year.
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#13
I walked in on a debate between my gf at the time and my brother. She was arguing that the human brain is located outside of the skull. Like on top of it, I guess? Oof.
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#14
We were no longer married, but when he said he didn’t know what the parenting agreement said because he hadn’t read it. He went to law school. Still signed a binding document about his children without reading it.
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#15
My ex wife was overpaying the cable bill. For years. By a lot. Because it’s smart to pay more than you owe on bills. If they’re loans. Not subscriptions. The cable company wound up owing us so much that they had to get clearance from accounting to pay us back. It was over a grand.
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#16
I dated a girl who dropped a few gems, one was:
“Why do we say words instead of just spelling them?”
I stared blankly, asked her to repeat herself, hoping I didn’t hear correctly. I did. I replied;
“B-E-C-A-U-S-E-I-T-W-O-U-L…”
Around this point she got a really confused look on her face and said “Whaaaaat?”
And I said, “that’s why.”
Another time a friend of mine mentioned his dog had a litter of puppies. The girl I was seeing said:
“What if human moms could have more than one baby?”
“…You mean like, siblings? Don’t you have an older brother?”
“No, I mean like, at the same time!”
“You’ve never heard of twins?”
Then she got angry and didn’t talk for a while.
The relationship didn’t last long.
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#17
When he blocked the toilet by putting thick paper towel down there and after trying to unblock it for a total of 2 minutes, he had a tantrum, yelled at me and stormed out to the pub for an hour. Whilst he was gone I managed to unblock it in less than 30 seconds. When he got back, he had another tantrum and went back to the pub for what I believe was emasculating him. Good times 😒.
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#18
Dated someone a long time ago that thought the government was spraying pesticides on his 20ftx15ft garden every night.
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#19
When I told him you don’t catch colds by being cold and he said “I don’t care about your ‘scientific facts’” and yes he air quoted “scientific facts”.
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#20
My normally quite intelligent spouse licked a vanilla frosting scented candle to see if it tasted as good as it smelled.
It did not taste good at all.
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#21
A boy I dated in college visited my house for the first time. I grew up on a dairy farm. He turned into the laneway and looked at me dead in the eye and was like “wow your dad seriously needs to cut the grass” … It was a huge field of hay. My parent’s laneway is about a quarter mile long of field on both sides. It’s quite obvious that was it was not a patch of grass.
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#22
I was told “don’t be stupid, a tape measure won’t tell you the length”. By my husband. Who is a builder.
#23
Not really in a relationship but about a third date and the girl I was dating noticed I had “gamer callouses” and declared she was deeply concerned because “the only way she could think of that someone could get callouses on their hands like that was from hitting people.
I took stock of the situation, pondered my blue collar family that has calloused hands a dozen different ways, and decided it was better to not go on another date rather than untangle whatever was going on there.
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#24
When I told her how a vaccine was made and she said I didn’t know what I was talking about and insulted my education. When I googled it and showed her proof, she refused to believe it and told me you can’t believe everything you read on the internet.
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#25
About ten minutes ago he began washing his hands over the strainer filled with cooked food. (:.
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#26
He couldn’t figure out what was better value; $15 for a pack of 12, or $1 each.
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#27
Not my relationship but a relative. She poured the melted wax from her warmer into the disposal side of the sink….good thing her husband was capable of replacing the drain and disposal. We still bring that up.
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#28
When he admitted to me that he thought the absorbency level of tampons was determined by the size of a woman’s vaginal hole. Basically, super tampons meant you had a wider hole. Married man with five kids.
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#29
My ex wife once asked if I wanted to take a 3 day trip and drive around the entire Pacific Ocean. We lived in Missouri at the time.
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#30
I asked him to clean the toilet. Came back to him having unscrewed the toilet seat and asking for further instruction.
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#31
He insisted on “opting out” of the x-ray scanners at airports because he didn’t want them having his image. The man was a professional Internet personality, his face and info aren’t hard to find lol.
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#32
When she thought Alaska was an island. She lived in the PNW so there was no reason for not knowing the geography.
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#33
I knew it was bad when his phone notified him that his charging port was dusty and needed a cleaning, so he stuck it under the tap and rinsed it with water to clean it out. Then this 30 year old man wondered why his phone wasn’t charging at all anymore.
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