Women are stunned by all the things men never learned until they got a girlfriend

https://www.dailydot.com/culture/things-men-didnt-know-until-they-had-a-girlfriend/

Rachel Kiley Aug 08, 2025 · 1 min read
Women are stunned by all the things men never learned until they got a girlfriend
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Women have opened up new dating discourse as they share basic things men they’ve dated didn’t know until they got a girlfriend.

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@egeofanatolia kicked things off with a since-deleted tweet that read, “I can’t believe a guy tweeted ‘So many things you don’t know till you get a gf haha’ and his example was ‘She told me I could open the window to let a breeze in.’”

Before it was deleted, that led to a flood of posts from people who had similar experiences they had found appalling.

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The “joy of dating men”

Despite the many anecdotes of men being incompetent and women having to pick up the slack, one X user made waves when she insisted that, actually, getting to teach men basic things is actually the “joy” of dating them.

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The sentiment was not well-received, to say the least.

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Surely there must be more entertaining hobbies than teaching men how to be people, but to each their own, I guess!