We all have quirks. Not even relationships can separate us from these odd habits.
Men leave the toilet seat up, women are finicky and some of them are unable to stop themselves from meticulous cleaning.
But these habits are lame compared to what some partners have done in their relationships.
Some have done downright gross things in their relationship. Read 30 of the grossest things we have collected in this article.
30 of The Grossest Things Partners Have Done in Their Relationships
1. Sharing Toothbrushes
Let’s begin this gross-fest with this one—sharing toothbrushes.
While some partners don’t see the big deal in occasionally sharing a toothbrush for contingency reasons, others feel grossed out when their partner uses their toothbrush.
And it’s easy to see why this habit is gross. For one thing, toothbrushes are used to clean the mouth and teeth.
And if what scientists say about bacteria in the mouth is anything to go by, you can understand the concern.
There’s a risk of transferring diseases like herpes, colds and many more, from one partner to the other. Just the thought of using your partner’s toothbrush can make you go—eew!
2. Refusing To Shower For Days
Did I hear you say, “Gross!” Exactly. But this is the life of some partners. As you read this, the skin of some partners in relationships haven’t said hello to water and soap for days.
No, not that they’d die if they didn’t have their bath, but, ew!
3. Eating Each Other’s Food Scraps
And the grossness gets worse with this one. Imagine that you’re at a restaurant and from across your table this couple are picking each other’s scraps and eating it. If this isn’t your thing, you’re bound to feel grossed out.
You may even look around just to make sure what you’re looking at is really happening. But it is. Now what’s wrong with eating each other’s food scraps? Well, people don’t really die from doing this. It’s just uncivilized, if you ask me. And gross.
4. Wearing Each Other’s Unwashed Clothes
This is gross because the clothes are dirty. We know you love each other, you’d do anything for each other but there’s what doctors call skin diseases and they are catching.
And to be honest, more people in relationships wear each other’s dirty clothes than you know. You’re one of them, aren’t you?
5. Sharing Makeup And Makeup Brushes
Now let’s take a breather—makeup? Yes, some partners share make-up brushes, transferring millions of microbes from face to face and to and fro.
The traffic of bacteria is toll-free, and this is why this habit made it to this list. It is gross. Offenders range from same-s3x relationships to heteros.
Some guys apply some makeup, they use their girlfriend’s own, sometimes when she’s not looking.
6. Not Using Protection Or Practicing Safe Intimacy
Okay. Let’s not pretend partners don’t do this. Also, let’s not pretend there’s nothing gross about it.
On behalf of all the hundreds of unwanted pregnancies and STIs, having intimacy without protection is gross.
Especially when you’re not sure if your partner has been generously sharing their body with multiple partners. It’s also gross because it is disrespectful to your partner.
7. Ignoring Your Partner’s Hygiene
Now this one is a particularly problematic habit on the gross scale. We’re looking at two gross habits here—the unhygienic habit of one partner and the negligence of the other partner.
What makes it gross is, the partner who has better hygiene lives with the dirty one and sees nothing terrible about the problem. It is a mini-community of gross people.
8. Leaving Dirty Underwear and Socks Around
And it’s worse if the offending partner has feet that smell. Many guys are the culprits of this grossness. Guys with sweaty feet always have to deal with smelly socks.
You’d be assaulted with the stench once you enter their apartment. Men partners are also the most known for harboring dirty underwear.
But occasionally, ladies have been known to stuff dirty panties in hidden corners of the room.
9. Not Flushing The Toilet And Wiping Down The Seat
This is one of the grossest things partners do in relationships. And it’s mostly a men’s thing with forgetfulness.
Sometimes, it’s more than forgetfulness when a partner finishes their business and walks out without flushing it.
Some partners simply glance at their waste, give it a disdainful look, and walk out of there. The waste is now the problem of the neat partner to deal with.
10. Engaging in Unhealthy Or Unsanitary Practices
(Clears throat) You might wonder if this qualifies as one of the grossest things partners do. The subject of intimacy is usually considered taboo or private.
The truth though is this subject impacts relationships as much as other things like finance. This is related to being intimate without protection stated earlier.
However, there’s more. Engaging in intimate practices like extreme ones can be dangerous. It can also be gross when partners don’t follow certain rules of hygiene.
There are other levels of intimacy that would gross you out but let’s leave it at this, won’t we?
11. Not Covering Mouth When Sneezing Or Yawning
Some partners do this playfully by yawning in the face of their lover. But the practice can be considered gross by some other people.
Early morning yawns can have severely unsavory odors. Dumping that smell on your partner’s face qualifies as a chemical weapon attack.
It’s the same as sneezing in your partner’s face. It’s what constitutes the content of the sneeze that makes it extremely gross—gooey catarrh and dried out booger. Ew!
12. Touching Each Other’s Face And Then Eating
More grossness here with our facial landlords called bacteria. One estimate says there’s millions of bacteria around our mouths, and millions more living on the real estate that’s our eyebrows.
Of course they’re too tiny to see or even notice. They can be harmful when the ones on the face find themselves in our guts.
Yet, partners in some relationships do the gross thing where they touch each other’s face with their hands, then go ahead and eat with the same hands.
13. Sharing Drinks Or Utensils Without Washing
Spoons, bottles of soda, plates, straws. The list is long.
Partners doing gross things in relationships always have something to defile while loving each other. You might ask: what’s gross with sharing drinks or spoons?
A lot. To begin with, remember the bacteria colonies thriving on your face. Also, add a dash of terrain reshaping that happens when bacterias move to places where they don’t belong.
Besides, when sharing drinks, you share some saliva too. Now tell us if that isn’t gross.
14. Not Washing Hands After Using The Bathroom
We know your bathroom is neat and all. But how about your hands, the same one you cleaned yourself with?
On today’s episode of partners doing gross things, welcome the partner who transfers a little guy called e-coli to his girlfriend.
The thought of not washing hands after using the bathroom—whether you did number one or two—is gross.
15. Leaving Dirty Dishes And Trash Lying Around
When food goes bad, it goes really bad. And that is what makes this habit one of the grossest things partners do in relationships.
Dirty dishes breeds diseases, invites cockroaches and insects into the kitchen, and the resultant putrefying smell can make a partner sick.
Granted, people rarely let dishes get that worse. But the suggestion of it is ever present.
Leaving trash around the house is right behind leaving dishes unwashed.
Worst scenario—walk in on a congregation of scavenging raccoons in your living room eating from the heap of trash you and your partner left before going on that trip in Malibu.
16. Not Trimming Toenails And Fingernails For Months
It’s amazing how toenails and fingernails can grow to become gross if left untrimmed.
Female partners are not so guilty of this because they get to do their manicures along with their facials many times.
Male partners on the other hand often forget to cut the extra off their nails. But what makes it gross? The lack of appeal is associated with dirt.
Nails can harbor dirt and germs under them. Secondly, an overgrown finger or toenail can look rough, and unkempt.
It leaves little to be desired, sending a negative message about the partner’s hygiene. Again, partners can contract or spread germs with those months-old nails.
17. Sharing Hair Accessories Or Tools Without Cleaning
Like sharing toothbrushes, germs can also be spread when partners use each other’s combs and hair accessories without washing.
Partners often overlook the danger inherent in sharing stuff, because they’re in love. In fact, many view this sort of sharing as a sign that they’re meant for each other.
The word gross is tossed out of the window. Until they get out of the relationship and look back on how messed up it was.
They then realized their hair lice problem was caused by their laxity when it comes to personal hygiene.
18. Eating Each Other’s Leftover Food From Days Ago
You ask: do some partners really do this? You’d be shocked what partners do when they’re in love with you.
Note that your partner may not do this with anyone else. They’d in fact consider it unthinkable if asked to eat leftovers food anywhere else, not even from family members.
Somehow, love and relationships have a way of making people drop their inhibitions, they become someone else and engage in really weird stuff.
Leftover food suddenly attains better taste and appeal because it has their partner’s bite mark.
This grossness includes drinking leftover coffee because the cup has the lipstick mark on the edge, and eating 3 days old hamburger. After all, the bite mark looks kind of cute.
19. Not Washing Hands After Handling Pets Or Their Waste
Now why would anyone do this gross thing? But partners do it in each other’s homes and with pets. Greg helps Nancy’s poodle clean up.
Greg wipes his hands on the seat of his pants because Nancy is watching. Greg doesn’t want Nancy to feel it was a hassle for him to clean up Mr. Cheeks, the poodle.
We’ve all been in this situation with our partner’s pets where we want to impress not just Nancy, but her pet too.
Oddly Nancy takes Greg’s unwashed hands and pulls him into a romantic hug, thanking him for being such a nice boyfriend. Whew!
20. Living Dirty Tissues Or Used Tissues On The Floor
It’s not the tissue, it’s where the tissue has been that makes this one of the grossest things partners do in relationships.
We’ve all had to use tissue soaked in alcohol to clean CDs, or wipe the screen of our computer, etc.
That’s not the only place tissues go, though. Tissue has been known to form other unholy alliances like excavating booger from noses, wax from ear canals, oily dead skin from faces, and many more.
Partners have sent masticated food into tissue for safekeeping.
The grossness has no end for tissues. They have even made their way out of toilets into the living room, wrapped around fecal matter. Ew!
21. Sharing Lip Balm And Chapstick Without Cleaning
There’s no stopping partners in this gross-fest, it seems. The lip balm is implicated in the gross things they do in relationships. The lip balm is an essential member of most facial accessories.
Men in general hardly buy them. Most just appropriate existing lip balms belonging to their girlfriends. Now, the balm isn’t the real problem here. It is the lip.
As noted earlier, even the lips are not free of bacteria and germs. Sticky lip balms turn the lips into a germ paradise. When partners share chapsticks or lip balm, they facilitate the gross exchange of these little microbes.
22. Not Showering Or Bathing For Weeks
Earlier on this list it was mentioned that some partners go on shower strikes for days. If that information shocked you.
Well, get a load of this—some partners don’t shower for weeks. This is a separate sort of gross, and that’s why it has its own space on this list.
Why would a partner go for weeks without a shower? Just like many of the gross things on this list, there’s no way to tell why most partners behave this way.
It would seem though that showering is a chore for some people. As long as they feel clean, they’re good. And this can stretch on for days.
In regions where the weather is cold, partners can be excused from bathing for days. You partners need to do better, really.
23. Wearing Each Other’s Dirty Socks Or Underwear
People share stuff in healthy relationships. People share each other’s dirty socks or underwear in healthy relationships too.
Usually, your girlfriend would sniff your T-shirt, wince at the grimy smell and toss it, designating for a wash. Some partners do the gross thing of wearing each other’s dirty T-shirts. Or socks.
Why is this gross? It is for the same reason as some of the other gross things—you can spread germs with dirty clothes. Clothes smell when sweat, bodily fluids mix with dust and germs act on them.
24. Not Flushing Toilet Paper Or Wipes Down The Toilet
How does this work? You wonder. Well, partner’s in this category take a dump, wipe themselves, but don’t drop the toilet paper in the toilet before flushing the toilet.
So what do they do with the paper or wipe? Sometimes they drop the thing in the toilet and just let it float there.
Here, the priorities are switched—flush first, drop paper after. What’s gross about it? The paper has parts of their poo in it.
Some partners drop the poo infested wipe on the floor. If they have a partner like them, that one drops his or hers too. The more you know—
25. Touching Each Other’s Faces After Touching Animals Or Their Waste
This grossness isn’t common. But it’s gross enough to make this list. And many partners who do it aren’t even aware of the danger.
Sometimes, these partners are simply forgetful. One thing is for sure, partners who have pets are more likely to commit this atrocity.
It works this way: Paul picks Pippin’s poo with a toilet paper. Pippin is Betty’s dog. Betty is Paul’s girlfriend. In the process of picking the poo with a paper, Paul gets some dog poop on his hand.
But because Pippin is a neat dog, Paul doesn’t bother to wash his hands. He goes on to touch Betty’s face with those hands, kisses her on the cheeks.
Even Betty later touches her own face, transfer the germs around the house. You get the picture.
26. Not Brushing Their Teeth Before Bed
And then waking up in the morning to demand a kiss. Sometimes the kiss happens, if the halitosis hasn’t built up bad enough. This is one gross thing people in love and relationships sometimes do.
Apparently, some partners believe their lover should kiss them even when their mouths smell. And some lovers indulge their partners. Yuck.
This is not to say some partners aren’t exceptional in hygiene and won’t smell even when they didn’t brush before bed. But why subject yourself or your partner to this ignominy?
27. Leaving Used Band Aids Around The Floor
Some partners turn their apartment into a hospital ICU. There may be no immediate or urgent hazard from leaving used Bandaids lying around your place, but it’s gross all the same.
The reason is what the bandaid may have been used for—from open sores to deep cuts or scratches. The band aid may have blood on it, or other body fluids.
There’s the risk of infections and germs from having things like that in your apartment for your partner to step on.
28. Sharing Earbuds Without Cleaning
This is one of the grossest things partners sometimes do. The more there’s ear wax, the grosser the act of sharing buds. Picture those greenish-brown goo transferring from your partner’s ear to yours.
This is grossness you can’t ew your way out of. Take a moment to peruse your earbuds and see how much ear wax is stuck in them.
Those waxes may not even be yours alone. An agglomerate of waxes from several people—if you have several partners, that is—caked to adequate grossness. Yuck!
29. Sneezing Into The Air In Small Enclosures
This grossness can be classified as a rare one. But this might be because we often sneeze involuntarily, and lovers don’t mind.
Love is sweet like that. Still, it is a gross thing to do. When we sneeze, we spray body fluid into the air. This fluid may contain germs, bacteria or viruses. This is how colds are mostly spread.
It’s worse if you and your partner are in an enclosed place like an elevator or in a car. Once you expel the sneeze, millions of droplets hang in the air for many minutes. Your partner has no choice but to share in this forced feeding.
30. Reusing Each Other’s Q Tips
Do some partners do this? You bet! Partners just take some of these things for granted. It’s just a q-tip, they tell themselves.
Besides, some partners do not see ear wax the way they see other disposable things. If it stays in my ear for weeks and doesn’t kill me, then it’s harmful.
But the truth of the matter is, once the ear wax is out of your ear it can become exposed to harmful germs. It’s not a good look to have used Q-tips lying around on your windows or coffee tables.
Final Thoughts
If you’re grossed out already by this list, it is by design. The Association of Partners International wants you to stop grossing each other out by doing the gross things on this list.
Why should you stop doing gross things? For one thing, the association is interested in stopping global warming. The world can do without unflushed toilet papers!
