What is something surprising you learned about your SO after years of being together?

Just recently I found he’s got a height thing..like, when checking out a girl, he’ll be like ‘too tall’ and I was like ‘what, too tall?’...who knew?

Well…lets just say it caused me to divorce him. lololol

I was married to my ex-wife for 9 years before I discovered she was just an undercover agent from Ikea, hired to make me and several other guys spend money on cheap flat packed furnature that no one really wants.

I found out yesterday that my husband didnt learn to read the conventional l
phone and sight based way, he learned by all words being written how they sound so elephant would be elifant how Wierd! Especially as I teach!!

I found out that… hm, never mind.

@sakura, excuse my ignorance but what is the traditional I phone and sight based way?

You might like the book “Birds of a Different Feather” by Carolyn Schur, which addresses this very topic. For whatever reason, the price on Amazon is ridiculous, but you can buy it direct from the author’s Web site.

I found out, after several years of marriage, that my husband’s early impression of my cleaning skills was very poor. (And I’d cleaned SO hard before he and his parents visited.)

We were telling someone the story of how his parent’s first meeting with my parents (we are from two very far-away States – over a 14 hour drive apart) coincided with my closing/moving date when I sold my house to move to live in his state. His parents ended up helping us pack the truck and drive—and helped me do the final cleaning on my house (cleaning it for the new owners after we’d moved all my things out).

I thought I’d cleaned it SO thoroughly and it was in far better shape than when I’d bought it…but he apparently thought it was repulsively dusty because I had not climbed on a ladder to dust the tops of the decorative valances above the windows (mind you, it was an older home with 11 ft. high ceilings). I thought: “Who dusts the tops of things you can never see?” and he thought: “Ugh! How can she think this is clean?”

I guess he decided to overlook my poor cleaning skills..because I learned this 3 kids and 7+ years into our marriage…

She has four very distinct and seperate sets of genitalia.

yeah-uh

I followed this question to be amused, not be disturbed.

…sorry I was on my phone and it was early…coudn’t sleep. The phonics way ie: letter sounds a b c d e f etc…. and by sight ie: just knowing that the word says he or she or the.

He learned to read and write words by how they sound ie: e l i f a n t rather then elephant. Wierd I think but he is probably a better “speller” than me and I teach!!!

@sakura, I thought you meant “I phone.” lol

I learned phonetically also to some extent. Doesn’t everyone learn to sound words out?

Sorry I didn’t explain it very well!! This is what the “scheme” was…

The Initial Teaching Alphabet (I.T.A.) was developed by Sir James Pitman (the grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman, the inventor of a system of shorthand) in the early 1960s.

It was not intended to be a strictly phonetic transcription of English sounds, or a spelling reform for English as such, but instead a practical simplified writing system which could be used to teach English-speaking children to read more easily than can be done with traditional orthography.

After children had learned to read using ITA, they would then eventually take the transition to standard English spelling. Although it achieved a certain degree of popularity in the 1960s, it fell into disuse by the early 1970s

http://www.itafoundation.org/ita.htm

@sakura I had never heard of that.