‘My wife of 12 years wanted to end things because I buy my underwear wholesale’

A man has taken to Reddit to share how his wife almost broke up with him 12 years ago because he bought his underwear wholesale and she thought he’d been wearing the same pair for weeks on end

When it comes to dating, you can spend months getting to know a person before figuring out whether they’re the right match for you. But one woman almost left her otherwise-perfect relationship over her boyfriend’s money saving tactic that was seriously giving her the ick.

Her now husband explained how he used to buy his underwear wholesale, adding dozens of the same pairs in the same size and colour in to his shopping basket at any one time. He says it saved him money in the long run and meant he didn’t have to worry about splitting them up for different colour washes.

Taking to Reddit, he said: “I met this girl and we would get frisky quite regularly.

“However, after a week or two she started to notice something, and she assumed I was wearing the same pair of underpants for weeks on end, which she understandably found rather off-putting.”

Fortunately for him, she accidentally looked inside his laundry basket one day and to her delight saw a stash of unwashed underwear.

He added: “She confessed that she was about to break up with me with some lame excuse.

“I’m happy she didn’t, because we’ve been together for almost twelve years now and we have a beautiful daughter.

“I’ve added some variety to my underwear now.”

While most users couldn’t help but laugh at the woman’s confusion, other shared the “ridiculous” reasons their ex partners gave for breaking up with them.

One user said: “This is why I buy socks and boxers that have the week days on them in different colours. It makes it so much easier to find left and right socks.”

Another user added: “My high school girlfriend broke up with me because I made an ‘ahh’ sound after taking a sip of a drink.

“I didn’t do it on purpose and I guess it was just a sound I made subconsciously because the sip made me so refreshed.

“One day I took a sip and ahh’d, and she just snapped and said she couldn’t handle it anymore.

“I asked her why she just didn’t tell me she didn’t like it when I did that, and she said she would shrug or give me a dirty look when I did it and I should have picked up on her dissatisfaction.

“Look lady, I’m enjoying my sip of cola here, I’m not looking around during it.”

A third user said: “I broke up with a girlfriend in high school because it was school holidays and she kept texting me to hang out but I never replied because I had just bought Fallout New Vegas and it basically took over my entire life.

“She was getting upset that I wasn’t texting her, all I wanted to do was play Fallout, and figured it would be easier to just dump her so I could get back to my PC rather than try to patch things up.”

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