When you’re with someone long enough, especially in a romantic sense, odds are you develop some unique and strange behavior that only you two share. It’s cute though! It shows a clear bond in the special ways you interact.
A post on Reddit asked people to share the weirdest things people do with their partners, and people were happy to answer, giving us all a look into their private lives.
Keeping time.
“I used to mess up the name of the month on our dry erase calendar and now it has turned into us constantly doing it wrong on purpose to see who notices. Right now it is apparently Septemble.”
Playing it up.
“The [expletive] goofing voices in public. It’s made worse by the fact I’m 60 and she’s 50. Grocery aisle or any other store and one of us sees something cool, boom. Fake ass, exaggerated semi-aristocratic whatever the [expletive] accent we can contrive and, ‘Ooooh! So verah fanceh!’ Then the other chimes in, ‘So verah fanceh! What does it do?’ And off we go. Insufferable, really.”
RELATED STORIES
When you least expect it.
“My wife likes to pants me (pull down my pants from behind) when I’m doing things where both hands are occupied, like cooking or carrying things. I put up with it because she get really great belly laughs every time she is successful, and I love it when she laughs like that.”
The moment to strike.
“Play hide and seek. He’ll randomly disappear and I’ll find him hiding in my closet or in the bath tub waiting to jump out and scare me […]. Once he tried hiding under the bed and fell asleep…I found him only because of his snore […].”
Resulting in injury.
“Tag, basically. I chase her around the house, furniture, etc. There have been both broken possessions and injuries. The worst was several years ago when I broke my toe trying to run past the fridge and kicked it at full speed.
“We still do it, though.”
All over again.
“Whenever either of us take off our ring for any reason (shower, washing dishes, gardening, etc) the other will grab it and put it back on them while ‘proposing’. We have probably proposed to each other several thousand times by now.”
In other universes.
“My boyfriend and I believe in an alternate reality where we exist as beans so whenever we’re having an awkward moment one of us will mention what our bean versions are probably doing.”
Homing techniques.
“When we can’t find each other in the store we ‘bloop’ and the other person replies with a long ‘blooop’ until we locate each other. When people are around they’re pretty quiet which maybe makes it more awkward/creepy for the passerby.”
Superpowers.
“We’ll cape each other. I’ll be doing the dishes for example and my fiancée will come up and hug me from behind all cute-like. Then if I have to walk she’ll shuffle her feet really quickly to match me, and I’ll have to move around cleaning the kitchen with this quick-stepping weirdo on me like a cape.”
Getting attention.
“My husband likes to make loud, obnoxious noises when he’s bored or lonely. It’s his way of getting my attention if I’m in another room or not paying attention. I do it too if the tables are turned. We call it our mating call.”
Quite the history.
“We make up lore for our cat. One of us will say something stupid and random like ‘he’s a stone cold businessman’ and the other will build on it, and we’ll just keep escalating until one of us dies of laughter. And now that same cat is a chicken sauce businessman, a celebrated figure in Japan, and a renowned soccer player, complete with a fleshed out backstory…”
A good meeting.
“If my wife and I are holding hands and we somehow end up in a handshake position we shake vigorously and say hyperbolic business jargon like ‘good business deal, business partner.’ Or ‘production is hitting our KPIs this quarter.’ Done it for years and we do actually own a business together now but we still do this.”
Audio association.
“In the early days, we were walking around outside and I saw a flock of geese flying in a V formation (something I’d only ever seen on TV). I gasped and quietly said ‘geese!’ He kissed me. ‘What was that for?’ ‘You said kees.’
“Nearly 20 years later, if I say ‘geese’ I still get a kiss.”
Names and no faces.
“We name our stuff, like house plants and cars. My car is Bessie and hers is Moana. Biggest houseplant we have is named Clyde Jr. because he looked like a small version of a tree at our old place that we had named Clyde. Lisa is a small houseplant. We have a portable charcoal grill called Melissa.
“Her family knows these names and uses them as if it’s completely normal.”
Making no sense.
“Not sure how it started but one of us will look at our dog and give him a thumbs-up. It must remain up until the other person sees this and does the same. When the dog looks confused enough we are allowed to continue with our lives.”
The outdoorsy type.
“We dress in camouflage and crawl through the swamp taking pictures of bugs and frogs on his days off. He brings me dead bugs for my dead things collection. We also hold each other’s ears and pretend to scream and cry when the dogs start up barking.”
Safe and sound.
“Sometimes, we take the t-shirt we’re wearing, and trap the other persons head under it, holding them to our stomachs and telling them that they are now safe.”
De-escalation methods.
“We settle disputes with ‘sock head’. We stand about 3 [meters] apart and take it in turns to throw a sock at each other in the hope of landing one squarely on the other ones head. I’m currently reigning champion […].”
Reinventing.
“Entire concepts have been replaced with nonsense, bastardized words. For example, a bath is exclusively known as a ‘splosh’ (ie: ‘I’m going to go and have a splosh!’). Last weekend, we were camping with friends and I helped cook breakfast, but I caught myself asking people if they wanted any more ‘sosig.'”
A new languange.
“We meow at each other. We can distinguish based on our meows if someone wants attention, a hug, a sexy hug, is just checking if we’re in the house, if we’re tired, lazy, annoyed, etc. […] We still have normal conversations but instead of saying ‘Come here and cuddle with me’ I can open up my blanket on the couch, meow once in a certain tone and he gets it.”
