12 Wild Things Partners Casually Said That Totally Destroyed Their Image

Relationships come with surprises, but some people manage to drop confessions so strange, so wildly unexpected, their partners are left questioning everything. Here are the oddest things people have heard from a partner that left them totally stunned.

• Three weeks before our wedding, he handed me a dusty wooden box from his grandmother and told me to “guard it with my life.” He wouldn’t say why. I opened it after we broke up. I was totally confused when I found inside a single sticky note: “She’ll open this. If she does, she’s not ready for marriage.” He failed his own test.

• I was in the passenger seat of my girlfriend’s car and opened the glove compartment to store something. She turned and screamed, “What are you doing?!” Confused, I asked, “What’s going on?”
  She said that it’s dangerous to open the glove compartment in a moving car because “it would damage the engine.” Apparently, her parents told her this when she was little so she wouldn’t play with the compartment. © Airjack / Reddit

• I opened a drawer in my bathroom and noticed a bunch of q-tips scattered all over my hairbrush, towels, etc. When I asked him about it, he said he dumped all my q-tips out and threw away the box they came in to help me “save space” in the drawer. © wutsligma / Reddit

• I dated a girl that had a son. She kept giving him hotdogs. One day, I told her I didn’t think hotdogs were good for him. I reminded her that there were better choices. She said, “But if we don’t buy hotdogs, they will go out of business.” © krispytomorrow / Reddit

• After calling her to say things weren’t gonna work out, and her parents were never gonna approve, she asked, “If you knew things weren’t gonna work out, why did you ever kiss me?” The relationship was 2.5 years long. I was speechless. © carlos4068 / Reddit

• We were sitting on the beach during what was supposed to be our relaxing getaway when he sighed deeply and said, “I think it’s time you knew... I used to be legally considered missing.”
  He hadn’t been lost — he purposely disappeared for a year to “reconnect with himself” in a cabin 30 minutes from his parents’ house. They just didn’t know where.

• I told him I had to leave in 1.5 hours. He told me that it was oddly specific, and I should have rounded up to 2 hours instead of 1 hour and 50 minutes. I clarified that I had to leave in 1 hour and 30 minutes, and he said that’s actually 1.3 hours. © IndividualAd2337 / Reddit

• My girlfriend looked out the window just before sunset. The sun was still on the horizon. Then she looked up, saw a full moon above, and said, “How are the sun and moon out at the same time? What is going on?” She thought they were always exactly on the opposite sides of the Earth. © Chimie45 / Reddit

• When I met his parents, his mom hugged me and whispered, “So... you’re the chosen one.”
  I thought it was cute. But my heart leapt when he told me that his family has a tradition where the first person their son dates after 25 is “destined” to marry him. They fully expected a proposal by Christmas. We’d been dating four weeks.

• Two weeks after we got married and moved into our first apartment together, he drops the, “I don’t believe in monogamy” statement that felt like a sucker punch. I asked him if he knew this before we got married. He said yes. I asked him why did he marry me, then. He said he still wanted to wife me, but now wanted to be able to explore crushes and see where they go.
  ETA: We divorced five years later after being together, total, for ten years (five dating, five married). I tried my absolute best, but the hits just kept coming until our marriage was beyond redemption or hope. I’ve remarried, happily, with a house, two dogs, and a toddler. My ex has also remarried with two kids. © rivlet / Reddit

• My husband, taking 4 different types of baking cocoa and dumping them into one container to “save space”. I ended up making a favorite cake with that mixed up mess. He didn’t like it, it was chocolate but the chocolate was wrong. © D***kitty2 / Reddit

• He locked himself in the bathroom and tattooed the Louis Vuitton logo onto his cheek. Backwards. Because he forgot that reflections were a thing. And then I had to explain to him, in excruciating detail, WHY he had messed up and what I meant by “it’s backwards.” © OhEmRo / Reddit

Love can survive a lot, but sometimes the strangest shocks become the stories we never forget. Whether these confessions led to breakups, breakthroughs, or just bewildered silence, one thing’s clear: everyone has a moment where their partner says something that stops them in their tracks.