‘What is a surprising secret skill your partner has that you didn’t know about?’ – 21 incredible mid-relationship reveals
12.
‘Axe throwing! My wife is very meek and introvert. She’s the quietest, most gentle person I’ve ever met. Then one day we found an axe throwing game in an arcade at he seaside. She absolutely smashed every single shot.
Not quite believing how this was possible we booked a date night doing actual axe throwing a few weeks later, and she was even better than the real one.
Turns out that my wife is a nurse on the outside, and a Viking warrior on the inside!’
–Optikal-Omega
13.
‘A few months back my girlfriend asked if I wanted to play padel as her friend and her boyfriend had just started playing and they needed another pair. I said yes as something different and I get ok with the other couple, albeit only seen them a few times, so nice to get out.
Start playing and my Mrs is doing power shots, backhanders and everything. Had to tell her to calm down as its only for fun and we won first set 6 nil. Turns out she used to get tennis coaching as a kid, went to Wimbledon juniors and didn’t go further as she was getting exhausted playing for the school and county. Along with that and the lessons she quit as she was exhausted and having no social life with it all.’
–kirkbywool
14.
‘Not my partner but me. A few years ago getting ready for a significant family birthday (seated meal at a restaurant) and I said “Right, we’ll just pop to the shops and get some place cards and calligraphy pens so I can do the place cards”.
The look on his face was hilarious – one of those “I understand all the words but not the sentence” kind of things. He was then “er, so do you actually know how to do calligraphy?”
(Short answer – practise enough in your teens and the muscle memory never goes away!).’
–azp74
15.
‘Played her at Connect 4 as bored on holiday.
She won Every. Single. Game. As a gamer, my competitiveness kicked in and we played every day. Must have played about 70 times by the end. She never lost.’
–New_Can_3534
16.
‘Uno-reverse, had been with partner for 6 years, went to Amsterdam, they wanted to go ice skating, I was all game and said I used to play ice hockey, they didn’t believe me. 10 mins (and €30!) later I was on the ice, completely in my element, skating backwards whilst coaching them basic skating skills, zipping around the rink, amd getting told off by my partner for “showing off”.
I swear I’d told them about ice skating and hockey early in the relationship, it’s been 20 years but I still have a couple of sticks and some other equipment laying around at home. My skates unfortunately have seen better days, and surprisingly my partner doesn’t want to go skating with me again.’
–PalpitationAdorable2
17.
‘Juggling. Been together over 20 years. Realised last year when our child got an impromptu juggling lesson.’
–Cultural_Tank_6947
18.
‘Husband revealed he was devastatingly competent on the claw machine during our trip to Japan. He’d never mentioned it to me, ever, but is now know as King of the Claw.’
–vestibulepike
19.
‘Lightbulbs. My wife has a knowledge of what each light needs anywhere and why. Like “oh that one takes g32s”.
She worked in BHS in the lighting department but I didn’t know this til we moved house and she just started going all Yoda about the lights.’
–ShampooandCondition
20.
‘My wife can eat any dish from any ethnicity in a restaurant, then go to a grocery store that specialises in ingredients for that ethnicity, smell all the various spices and ingredients, and then prepare a dish that is identical in every way — taste, texture, appearance, even the mouthfeel.
We had been married several years when she first did this after I expressed that I had really enjoyed a Hunan dish we had ordered.’
–Ok_Bird4483
21.
‘My 7 year old daughter was trying to do cartwheels, I’ve never been able to, my husband comes out and does a perfect one, apparently did gymnastics as a kid and I had no idea!’
–ScruffGin
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