Women Are Sharing All the Things They ‘Taught’ Their Boyfriends, and It’s Not Good for Dudes
Some of us are lucky we can put our own pants on.
Published 1 week ago in Facepalm
Every relationship teaches you something. However, according to some women on the internet, their relationships have involved teaching their boyfriends *everything.*
In a recent thread on X/Twitter, women have been sharing all of the things they’ve alleged that they “taught” their adult partners, from showing how toothpaste works to telling them that, if they wake up in the middle of the night, they can just go back to sleep.
I know, crazy!
but this is the joy of dating men. they legit do not know things! and u get to teach them shit like “you can go back to sleep if you wake up in the middle of the night”. once a man didn’t know who his best friend was until I pointed it out! it’s so much fun https://t.co/7QHsHUmObt
— ellie schnitt (@holy_schnitt) August 2, 2025
my friend had to tell her boyfriend to use toothpaste, he thought the toothbrush alone was enough and that people just liked the flavour https://t.co/UxnZA3sOcV
— kit️⚧️ (@kitshrek) August 4, 2025
one time was dating a guy who mentioned he was still making payments on his car (just a regular Mazda). He was an engineer who made good money so I was like "oh why don't you just pay it all off and be done with it". He went quiet
— mary (@ibsignorer) August 4, 2025
Car was paid off next time I saw him lol https://t.co/u2zV78sCIs
Now, are all men like this? No. Are some of these stories made up? Most definitely. Are some of these men just deeply, deeply stupid, and the fact that they’ve been able to continue existing without accidentally getting sucked into an escalator a feat by itself? Absolutely.
But are there people like this walking among us? No question — and, according to the users in this thread, there’s way more than most people think.
Had to tell my ex you could remove pillows from the plastic they came in - he thought you just stuffed them in the pillow case with them on. Naps sounded like shoving your head in a grocery bag.
— (@lobotomymouse) August 4, 2025
I do not regret leaving that man for many reasons. https://t.co/nCaiClekja
My husband works for NASA designing literal rockets but spent over a decade using deodorant that made his armpits sting if he “put too much on”
He’s mildly allergic to an ingredient. His armpits hurt from 2008-2024, and he’d never mentioned it https://t.co/oG4VSUKPli— Alyssa (@alyssaleann) August 4, 2025
I once taught a man and his roommate how the lock on their bathroom door worked. They'd been living there for a year at that point. They were fascinated when I went to the bathroom and locked the door. https://t.co/lCvYP8KnjK
— tomato (@whotookmytomato) August 4, 2025
That said, other people pointed out that, if you see a man not knowing that you have to take the shell off a hard boiled egg before eating it and still decide to hook up with him, you might not only be part of the problem, but you may even be just as stupid as the man himself.
Equality!
Women love to be like “lol one time I dated a man who didn’t own underwear, he just cut two holes in plastic grocery bags. We dated for 11 months,” and think the story reflects more negatively on the guy. https://t.co/douaxeWGQD
— Brendan Fraser Crane (@bf_crane) August 3, 2025