Turns out for the last 4 months my wife (31f) and I (27m) have been using the same tooth brush! For some context back in April we both went to the dentist and opted to get a new tooth brush while we were there (they had a BOGO deal going on) these tooth brushes are electric with exchangeable heads in green, blur, and purple. One of us chose purple the other chose blue, now all this time I could of sworn that I chose purple! It’s my favorite color and anytime purple is a choice for anything I choose it and my wife’s favorite color is blue! So you would think logically me purple her blue but I digress. We have a 18 month old and I work alot so we usually don’t go to bed or wake up at the same time I wake up at 8 and go to bed around 10 and she wakes up around 9 and goes to bed around 11 after she puts our son down for bed. Tonight our son fell asleep early because he’s been sick so we both were getting ready for bed at the same time when we went to brush our teeth we both reached for the same toothbrush and after much debate we decided to throw away both heads and put on our back ups and now my wife put a hair tie on hers to show the difference haha.
Tl;Dr my wife and I were using the same toothbrush because we weren’t on the same schedule and had go replace our toothbrush heads
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Weird way to tell us you don’t have sex with your wife
Jeez, I get it with the downvoted. I guess no one understands sarcasm here
For the past 4 months…
Lol, both of ya be like “I suspect my spouse doesn’t brush their teeth… Their toothbrush looks brand spanking new…”
XD
Am I crazy for thinking that I literally would not care in the slightest about this? I’ll happily tongue kiss my wife, so sharing a toothbrush with her doesn’t bother me even a little. Obviously we don’t share one, because there’s no reason to. But I certainly wouldn’t jump to throw out a brush head because she may have used it.
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Dude chill. She borrows mine when she is at my place.
My wife and I literally share a toothbrush.
My fiancé and I have accidentally done this. We’ll get new toothbrushes and somewhere along the lines one of us gets mixed up. We now keep our toothbrushes in separate places to better remember which is which
I’ll eat your ass, but we’re not sharing a toothbrush. 🤢
Quality FU, OP!
I mean, I bet it was exactly what you though, y’all picked your favorite colors but one of you forgot or had a stray thought solidify (like “what of the other had picked my color” and it solidified as “they picked my favorite color”), and someone sleepily used the wrong color and it stuck in their brain, y’know.
Either way 4 months is about the time to renew your brush, and really your mouths are as clean as they would have been using a slightly older toothbrush than what you thought you were using. Plus, as others pointed out you’ve swapped bodily fluids before with varying cleanliness so it’s really a non-issue
This would be disastrous for me because sometimes I honest to god cannot remember if I brushed my teeth an hour ago and trust that if the bristles are quite damp then I probably did
Congrats, you’ve basically been French kissing twice a day without even knowing it.
That’s both gross and kinda wholesome, hahaha
So ya eat her ass but won’t share a toothbrush
Whenever I want to get my husband going, I ask him which toothbrush he thinks is his.
Does it matter?
You’re married with a child, clearly you’ve swapped some DNA before
Are you guys marshall and lily?
Well, if you’re sharing the toothpaste, then your toothbrush debacle is a moot point.
My wife seems to think sharing a toothbrush would be no big deal. She likes to share almost everything else we do. The toothbrush was one of the few things I put my foot down about, lol.
I just made this discovery myself the other day. Been about 6 months for us lol
Wait till you find out Ted has also thought it was his toothbrush the whole time…
One of the many reasons my first marriage didn’t work was explained by a similar shared toothbrush. I had the green toothbrush and she had a red one. One day she switched them with new ones but it was a light green and a darker red. She also decided that she wanted the light green one because it was cuter. She told me that she switched the toothbrushes for new ones and I said ok and later used my green one again. A week or so goes by and she comes out of the bathroom asking why her toothbrush was wet and was holding my green toothbrush. I said “idk and also why are youholding mine?” She said it was hers.
When I said that I always have the green one she said she switched them when she changed to new ones. I was supposed to know because they were different colors than the old ones despite being red and green again because they were different shades. We had extras because they came in a big pack of them and they were the same design just different shades of red and green. We switched to new ones again and back to the old colors of me green and her red but then she kept using mine anyways because now she thought hers was green despite it being a different shade.
Happened to me and my college roommate. We both needed them, saw a 2-pack with different colors so quickly chose our colors and then about a month later I noticed my toothbrush was awfully worn. I still don’t remember who chose the wrong toothbrush but we didn’t get too upset about it. It’s not like freaking out was going to change the past. We never split a 2-pack of them again, though.
It’s a funny world. I have no issue eating my wife’s asshole yet sharing a toothbrush seems gross. Male it make sense..
This is a bit in how I met your mother and then it turns out the Marshall was also using it because thought it was his too
My sister in law and I accidently shared a tooth brush one summer, about 15 years ago. We will talk about it
I hope this isn’t the routine your wife follows
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Ooo we had a 2013 toothbrush saga that still gets spoken about to this day. It involves a holiday, my husband and my nephew.
No toothbrush is safe around my hubby!
That’s love baby
Your 18 month old goes to bed at almost 11pm?
When I was living with a roommate in college, we shared a bathroom and didn’t realize we’d both been using the same toothbrush. It finally came out when my bf at the time was borrowing “my” toothbrush and she asked him why he was using hers. We still joke about it now, almost a decade later.
You share more when you kiss …
i guess that should be alright since you and your wife share a relatively familiar group of bacteria, so…
hahahah this would have killed me. ive shared my toothbrush with my boyfriend maybe once or twice ever (while moving into a uni houseshare & getting our stuff lost/mixed up) but i would definitely not let it happen for four months 😬😬!!!!
I mean your mouths have been on worse places on each other. What’s the big deal?
Yet you continue to stick each others genitals in your mouth.
Once upon a time, my husband and I kept passing a cold back and forth. I couldn’t figure it out as we weren’t swapping spit or even getting close enough to breathe each other’s air. I finally noticed my brush was always wet and his was always dry. We had been married at least 25 years at that point, during which I ALWAYS used the green one. Oh well, sharing is caring, right?
I request the blur brush please.
When I met my wife and used to stay over she told me which was her toothbrush in the shared bathroom. I missheard, and for 6 months used one of her flatmates brushes… We never let on.
Lol my husband and I did the exact same thing recently. It was funny, but also like…whatever? Not sure I fully understand the toothbrush sharing taboo when couples share microbes in so many other ways.
Eating ass, ok. Sharing toothbrush, no. Hahahah
My main takeaway: blur
While girlfriend and I do each use our own toothbrush, I always wondered what the fuss about this was, when you consider all of the places where we put our mouths on each other, including each other’s mouth.
It’s time to replace it anyway. Oh well!
I don’t understand, it’s your wife…do you not have oral sex with each other? And you think sharing a toothbrush is bad??? 😂😂😂😂 I mean sure we should all have our own toothbrush but the reality is y’all are sharing a whole lot more in different ways lol
I use my wife’s toothbrush when we go camping. Big whoop. I’ve seen where she puts her mouth.
I feel like I would have tasted the difference
Awww, that’s the most accidental romance ever.
Hah, my wife and I have done that. Now hers has 2 stripes on the handle painted with nail polish so we know which is which.
Nail polish! I do a little red heart on mine.
I stopped at “4 months”, this is such a long time period for a toothbrush imo
4 months? Ffs, you replace that thing after 2 months.
3 months is time to replace the brush heads anyway.
Same thing happened between my wife and I last year! I ended up 3D printing a holder for the toothbrush heads, and labeled the slots with our names. Haha
Okay Marshal and Lilly
My husband and I have one toothbrush in the shower, and one at the sink. We share both of them. If we shower together, we pass the toothbrush to the other person after rinsing it off. I don’t see what the big deal is, neither of us have dental problems and we kiss each other so 🤷🏼♀️
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Oh god. We did this once. I was like “why is my toothbrush wet?” Asked and we’d been using the same one for a few days. As close as my spouse and I are, I’m still NOT interested in sharing my toothbrush!!!