"Weird" things you and your SO do

hordol

What are some of your couple quirks? I was just kind of thinking about some of the things H and I do that are perfectly normal for us, but other couples might find weird. For example, I get off work before him (and am right now not working because I'm a teacher) and when it's time for him to get off work I always call and we chat while he drives home, even though I'm going to see him in 30 minutes. Maybe that's not weird, per say, but I'm sure some might find it clingy. We also treat our dogs like children and refer to each other as mommy or daddy to the dogs. Yes, I know that's dumb and believe me, before I got dogs I would have rolled my eyes so hard at that but now, well, it's one of our quirks. There are others but they are probably too weird that they wouldn't be understood, heh.

What about you guys?

ETA: I think what makes the phone call during the commute particularly weird is that half the time we just sit there in silence but neither of us feel like hanging up. We talk for the first 15-20 minutes and then we sit in silence and I just kinda wait for him to say "okay I pulled on our street!" and then I hang up. That probably is a little more weird...

s-aries8990

BF and I eat kit salads (like from Fresh Express) out of one bowl with 2 forks. We hate dishes.

monkeysip

We probably seem really clingy to people when we say goodbye.  We would say goodbye to each other a dozen times before the other finally drove away.*  I'm sure it made people sick, but we didn't care (we didn't usually do it in front of a bunch of people, but if anyone was watching out of their windows, I mean).

We also do the dog thing.  Before we were married, I would always refer to him as "daddy" to my dog, and his automatic reply was always "I ain't her daddy!"  (In a funny voice; he does know proper grammar).

Finally he just submitted to being her daddy.  

We like to use funny names for each other.  Like, he'll call me his "smelly little gremlin", and I just think it's adorable.  Again, we usually don't do things like that in public, but maybe once in a while in front of a family member.

We also think farting is HILARIOUS.  We totally fart in front of each other and crack up laughing.  

* ETA:  That was before we lived together.  Now that we live together, our goodbyes are more normal.

Maggie0829

@hordol H and I do the same exact things!  So no, I do not think any of those things are "weird"

We also call each other if we need something.  Say if I was upstairs and he was on the main floor (we live in a three story townhome) and I wanted him to move the laundry around I will call him on the phone rather then get up and yell down the stairs.  He does the same thing if he wants me to preheat the oven or something else completely ridiculous.  And yes, we are both lazy.

hordol

monkeysip said:

We probably seem really clingy to people when we say goodbye.  We would say goodbye to each other a dozen times before the other finally drove away.*  I'm sure it made people sick, but we didn't care (we didn't usually do it in front of a bunch of people, but if anyone was watching out of their windows, I mean).

We also do the dog thing.  Before we were married, I would always refer to him as "daddy" to my dog, and his automatic reply was always "I ain't her daddy!"  (In a funny voice; he does know proper grammar).

Finally he just submitted to being her daddy.  

We like to use funny names for each other.  Like, he'll call me his "smelly little gremlin", and I just think it's adorable.  Again, we usually don't do things like that in public, but maybe once in a while in front of a family member.

We also think farting is HILARIOUS.  We totally fart in front of each other and crack up laughing.  

* ETA:  That was before we lived together.  Now that we live together, our goodbyes are more normal.

Haha we actually sound a lot like you guys! We do the farting thing too and we have ridiculous nicknames. My husband's nickname rotates every couple weeks but right now I'm stuck on "Chunk Monkey" or "Monkey Chunks", or sometimes it's "Skunk Monkey". If people heard us, they would probably think I was verbally abusive.

KeptInStitches

We do the "mommy" and "daddy" things with my cat, but not with his. That is to say, I'm mom to my cat and he's dad to my cat, but I'm not mom to his cat. He's dad to his own cat.

hordol

Maggie0829 said:

@hordol H and I do the same exact things!  So no, I do not think any of those things are "weird"

We also call each other if we need something.  Say if I was upstairs and he was on the main floor (we live in a three story townhome) and I wanted him to move the laundry around I will call him on the phone rather then get up and yell down the stairs.  He does the same thing if he wants me to preheat the oven or something else completely ridiculous.  And yes, we are both lazy.

Haha, that's great! I used to do that to my sister when we were both still living with my parents and my parents thought we were the laziest people on earth.

cruffino

we both make up weird songs about everyday life and sing them incessantly...and they include alot of foul language. an example: we live in nyc, and deal with alot of traffic so a song might be "douchebags on the bqe".

NYCBruin

I make up random songs and sing them to FI to make him laugh.

FI will tell me fairytales at bedtime if he's been drinking.  He usually can't remember the storyline which makes it awesomely hilarious. 

We leave each other random notes all around the apartment, sometimes reminders, sometimes something sweet, and a lot of times something silly.

I'm about a foot shorter than him so whenever we are on an escalator he knows that he has to stand on the lower "stair" and will usually make a joke about how tall I am.

We eat off each other's plates all the time.  

We have about a million weird things we do, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

efmcc67

We have long "conversations" of nothing but nonsense syllables.

CLoGreenEyes

One day I leaned over for no apparent reason and pursed my lips and quickly blew a whole bunch of air into his ear. I really don't know why. I think it was late and I was tired and I wanted to connect with him, and that's how I chose to do it. He was just delighted by this and did the same. We decided that it means, "I love you," and it's a regular thing now.

We have weird alter-egos that talk to each other and have conversations and arguments. His is a cranky redneck, mine is a pompous British lady. Fake accents and everything. They get along terribly and it amuses us. (I should note, BF was pretty normal before he met me and didn't used to do crap like this. Everyone in my family does this...like, everybody. So the poor guy picked this strange habit up from us.)

I know we have other quirks, but those are the only ones I can think of at the moment.

cruffino

fyrefly76 said:

xcalygrl said:

We have reversed roles sometimes. I'll be outside working in the yard or garage, and he will be in the house doing housework or laundry. It doesn't happen all the time, but it happens quite often.

The day I realized that we had reversed roles was my favorite day at our current apartment!  I was using my cordless drill to put up curtain rods and looked over to see him cooking stuffed peppers.  Awesome!

monkeysip said:

We like to use funny names for each other.  Like, he'll call me his "smelly little gremlin", and I just think it's adorable.  Again, we usually don't do things like that in public, but maybe once in a while in front of a family member.

His "pet name" for me is Stinky.  No idea how it started, but it totally stuck, and I just answer to it.  But he doesn't call me that in front of other people, just when we're home or otherwise alone.

I can't think of anything truly weird that we do.  But our hobby is a little odd.  We are geocachers, which means we use billion dollar satellite systems to search for tupperware in the woods.  We plan our vacations around geocaching, as in driving from Chicago to DC in order to geocache in 7 new states.  It can take us 8 hours to drive 100 miles.  And we crossed the border into Canada to spend 3 hours finding two geocaches, the border crossing guy rolled his eyes at us.

first time i've heard of geocaching....so cool!

Ajuliana

@monkeysip We do the puppy "mommy & daddy" thing too, and I always say she looks just like her daddy and he will lament that "That puppy don't look like me!"

We pretend fight and he will wrestle me into weird positions and giggle while I wiggle.

chibiyui

We meow to each other. Instead of verbalizing we want something (usually food or the others attention) we'll meow. We do not have any cats and we don't do it when other people are around.

efmcc67

We had an inside joke for a while where we'd yell "PANTIES!" and hit each other with pillows. I honestly don't remember how that started...

swimmy1988

We say "nom" to each other. I guess it's another word for love you. A lot of our text messages just contain the word nom.

He calls me s*^$ muffin. As well as Jemelera (which is a mix of all my names - my first name, 3 middle names and maiden name) and Boobella

We have skipped down the street while holding hands before

We joke about anal sex a lot. Neither of us really wants to do it either. I think we just joke about it to make each other cringe.

hordol

Hahaha this is great, I was chuckling while reading these. @chibiyui We meow too! We usually do this when we have a lull in conversation.

obxbride14

My FI also calls me stinky, or punk ass. 

We do the "mommy" and "daddy" thing with our dog too.

FI likes to sing songs that I like, except he'll change the words to make it super goofy.

chibiyui

hordol said:

Hahaha this is great, I was chuckling while reading these. @chibiyui We meow too! We usually do this when we have a lull in conversation.

OMG I LOVE YOUR CORGI

NYCBruin

Courtpenguin21 said:

Other weird thing, sometimes when we are watching tv or when we are talking, rather than sitting next to each other on the couch we sit at opposite ends and stretch our legs out so that they are lying on top of, or between, or under the other person's legs. 

We do this, too!

CLoGreenEyes

Harry87 said:

Personal favorite quirky thing lots of people do:
When you go to bed and you don't want to be all over each other, but you also want to be connected, so you both lie on your sides and make your butts touch.

That is just the ultimate I Love You: touching butts while sleeping.

Hahaha, this is the truth, and so necessary for the weather where we are right now.

MissZarmela

We do call our cats our ''sons'', and we are cat-mommy and cat-daddy. 

My fiancé is amazed by my eyes, because he can't quite decide wether they are light brown or green (depends on the light in the room, the makeup color I use, etc.). So one day I said with sarcasm ''so basically they're diarrhea-like'' and it stayed. So whenever he compliments me on my eyes, he can't help but ''admire my beautiful diarrhea eyes''.

Ah, and since I find farting hilarious, when he really wants to make me laugh, he prepares one and ceremoniously farts on one of our cats !

libby2483

Harry87 said:

Personal favorite quirky thing lots of people do:
When you go to bed and you don't want to be all over each other, but you also want to be connected, so you both lie on your sides and make your butts touch.

That is just the ultimate I Love You: touching butts while sleeping.

My H calls this "spoons in a drawer".  It started because I always want to spoon when we fall asleep and he doesn't usually want to.  So, he will face away from me and our butts will touch, and when I say that I want to spoon, he says we're already spoons in a drawer. 

hordol

chibiyui said:

hordol said:

Hahaha this is great, I was chuckling while reading these. @chibiyui We meow too! We usually do this when we have a lull in conversation.

OMG I LOVE YOUR CORGI

Haha thanks, she's a doll!

Peaseblossom55

We have fake arguements over silly things including yelling and then we burst out into giggles.

swimmy1988

Another weird thing my H and I did, well before we even started dating was we discussed future baby names in great detail for 2 hours. We still laugh about that now, since we were basically just FWB at the time.

hockeywife10

FI and I both have desk jobs and we text all day, every day... there are days when we are busy and its not as much, but we still do it LOL

hordol

@Slytherin RN 

We have developed a persona for both of our dogs, too! Our yellow lab has an Eeyore personality and our corgi is an angry diva. We talk for them both as well and I try not to do it in front of other people, but sometimes H lets it slip out and I think "Wow...they must think we're insane..."

lyndsay782

Hmmm... 

This is hard, because like others of you have mentioned.... some of them aren't "weird" to us.... 

Let's see...  We totally do the butt touching sleeping thing... and the farting thing (mine are the noisy type and his are the "silent but deadly" ones...) 

I am also my cat's "Mom" (even FMIL has started saying that to the cat when I get home) and he is her Dad.  That took a while, but it happened.  We also text each other chores from across the house. 

We have mean nicknames for each other. He's my Jerk-face, and I'm Dork, Punk-Butt, Stinky, or Turd, depending on his mood. 

I guess the oddest thing we do is that we make funny faces at each other from across the room.  All the time. In Public or not.  It's our weird little way of letting the other know that we are still connected.   

KDM323

OMG...we have developed the "personas" for our dogs, too.  With voices, accents, etc.

allispain

DH's nickname for me is "Bratmonster." My friends found out about this during a silly bachelorette party game and thought I was crazy for being ok with it. I think it's adorable (plus I'm kind of a brat sometimes, so it's warranted). It has now morphed into our cats being called "catmonster" and "kittenmonster" as well.