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Men Share ‘What Did You Not Know Or Realize Until After Living With A Woman?’: And Here’re 34 Of The Top Answers

Bored Panda · Jan 02, 2026 14:40 · 4 min read

Men Share ‘What Did You Not Know Or Realize Until After Living With A Woman?’: And Here’re 34 Of The Top Answers

Getting a roommate can be quite educational.

We're learning all our lives. But some things and experiences teach us more than others.

A month ago, Reddit user Artudetan posted a question on r/AskMen that read, "What did you not know or realize until after living with a woman?" Turns out, a lot!

From "the good bra" to doing the dishes, the post has already received over 14,000 answers and judging from them, getting a roommate can be quite educational!

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#1

I learned that bathroom can smell like soap and flowers and coconut instead of like pee.

#2

If you leave something on the kitchen counter, it will get put/thrown away. If she leaves something on the kitchen counter, that's where it goes now.

#3

Pockets are very rare for women's pants. Several years married and still shocked by this.

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#4

What home feels like.

#5

When you’re done showering, you’re supposed to stay on the bath mat while you dry off, not walk around the apartment

#6

They f**t just as much as men.

#7

Apparently, cleaning the toilet on the regular is much, much more important than I'd previously thought.

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#8

Just how expensive and shoddy brands for women are.

#9

How nice house plants are. Now I have all kinds of plants and my place feels so much more nice and relaxing.

#10

There is a wrong way to hang clothes to dry.

#11

If they leave stuff at the bottom of the stairs, that means you’re supposed to bring it up. If it’s at the top of the stairs, you should bring it down. Also, the correct place for objects in the kitchen is where they currently reside. Stuff is gonna move around constantly, just roll with it.

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#12

They have a really weird obsession with glass containers or jars.

#13

Hair ties actually disappear faster than MIA socks. Until you find 20 in a kitchen drawer.

#14

No matter how many bobby pins are in the house, there is always a need for more.

#15

Women are both simultaneously messier and cleaner than men. It’s bizarre how messy rooms can get with them and how quickly they can turn it around and make it clean!

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#16

One corner of the shower will become a "graveyard" for bottles of shampoo, conditioner, all sorts of stuff.

#17

An innocent cleaning excursion in the right circumstances will lead to a full-on reorganization of all the dang furniture in the house, if you're not careful.

#18

The hair that gets stuck in the shower drain. OMG.

#19

You find out the amount of food that a refrigerator can really hold.

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#20

Fancy makeup takes a long time.

#21

I never realised that she'd start wearing my clothes. T-shirts, sweaters, not even my d**n underwear is mine any more!

#22

Turns out RuPaul’s drag race is a great show

#23

I load the dishwasher so inefficiently, I'm no longer allowed to load it at all.

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#24

I have freaked out too many times at what I thought was a 52-legged spider clinging to my bathroom wall.

#25

That there can never be enough throws/blankets/cushions.

#26

That moisturizer goes on the body too.

#27

Strange new foods will appear in the cupboard and the fridge. This is actually good, you will get to try new things.

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#28

The wardrobe in your bedroom that you agreed to share 50/50? Just like the bathroom, in a few years it will be 90/10.

#29

There is an incorrect place for hand soap on the sink.

#30

No matter how much you vacuum or sweep the floor, there will ALWAYS be hair in the floor.

#31

To get rid of bangs you don't just cut them off.

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#32

When long, loose head hairs wash off in the shower, it's common practice to stick them to the wall rather than let them collect in the drain. If she forgets to remove them afterwards, it can be very confusing for the next person in the shower. Why are there a bunch of individual strands of hair deliberately stuck to the wall?