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It really does take living with someone to gain a more comprehensive understanding of what makes them tick. People are true professionals at wearing various personalities when they're out and about in society. But underneath all those carefully practiced niceties can lie all kinds of bizarre behavior that only comes out when someone is alone. Hopefully it's nothing too serious. Maybe some of these people's insights about the strange things they learned about their partners after moving in together will strike a chord. 

Uh oh, this is quite the situation. It sounds like this guy has all kinds of imminent financial ruin on the horizon. And then, when he's served up a bit of a reality check, he reverts to a temper tantrum state of mind. The folks in the comments section were not forgiving. 

Ghosting is a terribly common occurrence in this day and age. It could be a nasty manifestation of the multitude of dating apps and people just not being able to keep track of the plans they end up making with folks, or just being pure old flakey flakes. Well, let this dude's brief story about the implications of them ghosting their date serve as a cautionary tale to anyone else out there who could be considering ghosting their date. You never know what kind of plan the universe might have in store. 

We all want to be seen as gracious, but what happens when the things were are given just suck? Sure, you don't want to destroy the confidence of a child, but also who gives someone terrible cake made by a child and expects them to like it? When is a gesture worth lying for? At the same time, is it childish to demand equal cake treatment? For a cake related work drama, here's an office who fought back when a Karen threw away an expensive cake.

It's a not-unheard-of occurrence in relationships: "either the dog goes or I go." People who set this kind of ultimatum often have a very uninformed view on how much people like their pets. If the cat has been around for 10 years and you've been around for 3 months, don't expect an outcome in your favor. That said, pets aren't always stoic beacons of morality. For example here's Prancer, the irredeemable dog and these pets who shamelessly wrecked stuff.

Tinder has well established itself at this point as being a realm of absolutely absurd pickup lines, and rare, very rare actual connections between hopeless romantics looking for love on an app that otherwise is a magnet for tomfoolery. If anything, you might end up walking away from this list with every intention to start working some of these pickup lines into your rotation of conversation starters. 

This dude asked the people of Reddit whether or not he was in the wrong for abandoning his girlfriend on top of a mountain, because he had to catch the game. A game we might add that was a Jets game. And he just watched it in the car. Seems like he could've benefited from keeping his cool, being patient, and also recognizing that the big "emotional outburst" was entirely created by him. 

In case you ever find yourself suffering through a date that you can't find a good reason to be a part of anymore, then these devilishly inventive ways to ruin a date in under five seconds might come in handy. Sometimes, you just need to hit the eject button on a date as soon as possible for your own good. Are there more graceful ways to go about the process than what we have here? Of course, but to each their own. 

Anyone who has ever enduring the profound pain that is a back spasm knows that when those strike, it's no joke. You might find yourself questioning how you're going to come out the other end of the experience alive. A decent back spasm can test you to the very depths of your soul. In this case, it sounds like the back spasm was in a league of its own. Fortunately though, the dude was able to get the medical attention they needed. And hey, they got a great, unforgettable story out of the experience. 

Many folks out there have experienced those relationships with partners that felt like they'd be with one another till they took their last breaths on this wild planet. And then, as can happen under the influence of time ceaselessly passing on by, the love that once blared with an unwavering strength for all to see, ends up losing its momentum. Sometimes, people just end up growing apart. That potential future can be a terrifying one to mull over, and this Tumblr user does an awfully effective job at poetically breaking down how love can wither away over time. Just proceed with caution, it might awaken the existential dread. 

If you want to pivot into some more humorous, sparkling gems uncovered from the depths of the Tumblr realm check these out. 

This mom decided to consult the moral judges of Reddit's AITA community to see whether or not she was in the wrong for enforcing a house rule that prevented her daughter from being able to sleep in the same bed as her partner. It sounds like the daughter didn't take too kindly to this house rule. Shocker. Then the mom insists that she's being punished by her daughter for enforcing a house rule. Honestly, it seems well within her daughter's right to not want to visit the house if she's having to deal with not being able to sleep in the same bed as her partner. 

Oh boy, buckle up for a little trouble in lover's paradise. Marriage basically inevitably comes with its series of hurdles. Some of those might seem more insurmountable than others at times. With that being said, this husband really went and stirred up the pot when he decided to eat his kid's special candy. Queue his wife having a bit of a meltdown over the matter. You be the judge though, was dad in the wrong for his decision to insensitively cave into his sweet tooth? 

Um, the fact that this guy's wife told his coworker to basically back off, and said coworker continued to bring meals after that, makes this a very unsettling situation, indeed. Not even unsettling as much as it's just plain old inappropriate. If anything, it seems like something far more extramarital could be afoot in this unfortunate "love triangle."

The internet stood in judgement of this intriguing case, wherein an overzealous wife of an employee vastly overestimated her powers. Managerial duties don't transfer via osmosis, but she sure felt like she had the authority to get free meals for her friends and fire a waitress who got in her way. Sometimes people's partners have a hard time with reality, like this Karen military wife who demanded salutes or this Lying brother who covered up the fact his wife was the breadwinner.

The world of dating can be a tough one. In this modern era we have all of these crazy dating apps available at our disposal, and those very apps can end up resulting in quite the ridiculous series of encounters with individuals that seemed sane enough on the surface level, but ended up showing up for the date, brandishing all the bright red flags. Hopefully these people's stories about their most embarrassing dates make you feel a bit better about your dates that erred on the side of disaster. 

In no way do these lapses in judgement reflect the actual intelligence of these upstanding dudes. The thing is, so many of us can unknowingly go through life without realizing that we're doing something completely wrong. That poor guy's hands.