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In r/AskReddit, idiosyncratic asked, "What did you find retired astir your important different until AFTER you got married?" And this sounds similar a unsafe question, but surprisingly, truthful galore of the answers were wholesome, sweet, and comic — with a fewer exceptions that you astir apt mightiness ne'er privation to observe astir your spouse. Here's what radical said:
1. "I didn't recognize until aft we lived unneurotic that she can't support the bath level dry. When she showers, I consciousness arsenic though fractional of the clip she points the ablution caput astatine the crushed extracurricular the shower. When she gets out, I ideate her shaking her assemblage disconnected successful canine fashion. If she washes her look astatine the sink, I visualize her saying, 'one fistful of h2o for me, 1 fistful for you' (to the floor)."
2. "That she had been joined six different times. (Yes, that's six). She said, 'Only 2 counted due to the fact that they lasted much than a year.' I thought I was denied immoderate captious need-to-know information."
3. "Not astir my SO but astir me. Apparently, I person a birthmark connected my ass that looks conscionable similar a poop smear. I didn't cognize that until 2 weeks into the marriage, she tells maine astir my imperishable skid people and that she 'saw it erstwhile we archetypal started dating, and truly did deliberation it was poo.' She said, 'It took maine seeing it 3 oregon 4 times earlier I realized it was a birthmark. See, I'll ever emotion you!' God, I emotion that woman."
"Update: conscionable talked to my dad, who admitted helium has the aforesaid birthmark. I conjecture it's successful our bloodline to person poop permanently smeared connected our asses."
4. "When I was astir 20 and my parents had been joined for 29 years, my ma said she was going to marque squash with supper. My dad's effect was to say, 'No, convey you. I ne'er privation squash again.' My ma was all, 'WTF?!' My dad's effect was that helium had lone ever eaten it due to the fact that A) she liked it, and B) if you privation your kids not to beryllium picky eaters, you suck it up and devour immoderate is served. We were each astounded."
5. "I met my hubby online, connected OKCupid. I recovered retired close earlier we got married, aft dating for 5 years and surviving unneurotic for three, that the representation of him posted connected the tract was staged. He took a illustration of himself utilizing a camera timer successful his country unsocial portion holding a brew and talking to nary one. I don't cognize which cracks maine up more: that I couldn't tell, oregon that helium kept the concealed for truthful long."
6. "I confess I didn't archer my woman that I had a Magic: The Gathering postulation worthy thousands of dollars until aft we were married."
7. "I didn't cognize she was astir $75K successful debt. Had I known, I ne'er would person joined her. She could not power her spending. After I paid it off, I discovered she had taken retired different recognition paper and tally that 1 up — different $15K. We are nary longer married."
8. "Not marriage, but aft engagement... His begetter brings america to a gathering to explicate to maine that my now-husband is the 23rd-generation first-born lad since the opening of the family, frankincense insinuating that I would beryllium fucked if I didn't springiness commencement to a boy. We person a daughter. My hubby didn't cognize astir his household past (apparently it's lone revealed erstwhile the lad gets a wife), nor does helium care. We inactive person the smartest, sweetest, and astir badass kid ever."
9. "My hubby has immoderate benignant of brainsick allergic mutation that makes lemons respond similar sulfuric acerb connected his tongue. Seriously, his lingua gets burned. To beryllium fair, helium didn't cognize that was antithetic until aft we got married. My favourite dessert is citrus bars, and helium thought I conscionable liked burning my ain look off. And here's a cute twist: helium would inactive marque and devour citrus bars with maine each twelvemonth for my day until we recovered out. Then helium got lemon-banned."
10. "I didn't larn this until aft 17 years of marriage. My woman passed away, and astatine the funeral, I met her ex-husband, her 22-year-old lad — whom she hadn't seen for 19 years — and her different 20-year-old son, whom she gave up for adoption (from a antithetic father). I ne'er knew immoderate of them existed until the nighttime earlier the funeral, erstwhile her champion person asked if I minded if they came. She had ne'er spoken of them. So yes, it was awkward. The closest she came to admitting it was erstwhile we were dating and she said, 'Don't judge a connection my sister says. She tells everyone that I'm divorced and had 2 kids.' 17 years later, I recovered retired that was the truth."
11. "That she loads the dishwasher similar an asshole. It's my biggest ailment astir her. I'm a fortunate man."
13. "While we were dating, my hubby ever told maine this communicative astir however helium utilized to contention ungraded bikes and got wrecked truthful severely erstwhile that helium had to person country to reconstruct his nose. I had wondered wherefore helium looked truthful antithetic successful his younger pictures. Anyway, it wasn't until we had been joined respective years that his parent heard maine mentioning that communicative and however scary that indispensable person been for her, worrying astir her son. She didn't cognize what I was talking about. The information was that helium ne'er wrecked a ungraded bike, and his chemoreceptor looked antithetic due to the fact that helium had been ashamed of his larger-than-average Italian nose, truthful she saved up her wealth to bargain him a chemoreceptor job."
14. "Not me, but my relative changed her past sanction to her husband's 10 days aft they met. She didn't archer him this until they were joined for 3 years and had a kid already. She said that, looking backmost connected it, it looks psychotic. She figured she had met 'The One,' truthful she took his past name. I couldn't halt laughing arsenic she told maine this story."
15. "My ma told my dada that she's a fewer months younger than him. Six months into the marriage, my dada finds retired that she's 3 years older. 25 years aboriginal helium inactive brings up however helium was lied to."
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16. "She's truly atrocious astatine swimming. I discovered this connected our honeymoon portion we were astir 100 yards from enactment erstwhile she started having a panic attack."
17. "I recovered retired helium hates large events and thrives connected things being mean and calm. But our full beingness was a postulation of large events: graduation, getting our archetypal spot together, engagement, readying our wedding, and graduating from college. I thought helium was conscionable going to beryllium brainsick anxious his full life; helium conscionable hated readying large events."
18. "I person been joined for astir 8 years, and we dated for 7 years earlier that. Literally recovered retired past period that my hubby tin juggle. Like, helium tin legitimately juggle 3 balls. My jaw deed the floor."
19. "After being joined for astir 4 years, I learned my woman tin play guitar, like, incredibly well. She saw an acoustic astatine the flea marketplace 2 weeks ago, and she conscionable picked it up and started playing. My jaw dropped. I bought it for her, and present she is teaching maine however to play."
20. "I recovered retired her large concealed astir a twelvemonth aft we were married, erstwhile we went to bargain a house. We were some successful our 30s, and I had already bought and sold a location before. It took america good implicit a twelvemonth to find the nonstop location we wanted and use for a mortgage. I thought it would beryllium a slam dunk, but I was floored erstwhile the slope called and said our exertion was rejected. I asked for an assignment to find retired why. We some went successful to spot the indebtedness officer. They said: 'We instrumentality some spouses' incomes and recognition past into relationship erstwhile applying for a mortgage. The incomes unneurotic met the threshold for getting this mortgage. Your (pointing astatine me) recognition past is astir flawless. There was a flimsy contented that happened 3 years agone with a precocious payment, but that is thing to beryllium acrophobic about. However, your (pointing astatine my wife) recognition past is an issue."
"He pulls retired expanse aft expanse aft expanse of recognition issues with my wife. Late payments aft non-payments aft recognition paper aft recognition card... It seemed similar it went connected forever. She conscionable stared guardant the full time. We had to use for a owe utilizing solely my income."
21. "My hubby did not cognize the Northern and Southern Hemispheres experienced other seasons. I emotion him, but I bash not privation our children to beryllium successful the aforesaid schoolhouse territory helium was."
22. "That helium didn't walk each of Desert Storm successful Berlin, similar helium said helium did. I recovered that retired astir 10 years aft we got married. He was successful the beforehand enactment successful a documentary connected Desert Storm that was filmed (in part) successful Saudi Arabia. Then, astir 10 years aft that, I recovered retired that helium didn't 'just thrust a truck' successful Saudi Arabia and did so spot combat. He won't speech astir it, and I judge that. He knows that I'm present for him if helium needs to speech astir it 1 day."
23. "The grade of his alcoholism. Holy crap."
24. And lastly, "My woman eats pancakes from the halfway out."
Have you ever discovered a concealed astir your spouse aft you got married? What happened? Let america cognize successful the comments! Or, if you similar to stay anonymous, you tin capable retired the signifier below.
Note: Responses person been edited for length/clarity.
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