I want to start off by saying that intelligence isn’t everything.
Plus, there are many different kinds of intelligence!
So, smarts aren’t everything.

But asthese Reddit storiesshow, smarts can sometimes end a relationship.
Anaphylaxis occurred, EpiPen deployed, ambulance trip.
The hospital suggested I press charges.

They never admitted it was the wrong thing to do.
They never apologized."
u/BobsleddingToMyGrave
2.

“In my early 20s, I started living with my boyfriend at the time.
I got my period, and he demanded to know what I had done with the egg.
“When they tried to argue with me about whether babies can breathe underwater or not.

Pro tip: They can’t.”
u/MrApophos
4.
“Not sure if she’s the idiot or her friend.

She got a tattoo from her friend with the word ‘Angle’ on it.
Obviously it was supposed to say ‘Angel.'”
u/ajellis13
5.
“We had a heated debate about whether or not dinosaurs were alive during the American Revolution.
Her stance was, ‘Theres really no way to know.'”
u/Sudden_Exorcism
7.
Needless to say, she did it several times and said it didn’t work.”
u/jlaux
8. u/GameVoid
9.
She said she really hated Italian food, so we went to the regular restaurant.
Where she ordered lasagna."
u/Boris9397
10.
“An ex dropped me off for the first day at a job.
I called to find another ride so a friend came to get me instead.
[My ex] had driven across the street to get a soda AND WALKED HOME.
HE FORGOT THE CAR.
We saw it on the way back to the apartment.”
u/thatsprettylitbro
11.
“We were watching the movieSe7en, where each murder is tied to one of the seven deadly sins.
u/supersuperglue
12.
Things like subbing breadcrumbs with flour, adding pepper flakes in dishes that are not spicy.
Those were the most disgusting Swedish meatballs I’ve ever had.”
“He kept littering.
I really hate littering.
The day he spit his gum out on the sidewalk of a zoo I called him out on it.
He said, ‘It will evaporate.’
He gave me a confused look.
That’s when I realized he was serious.
He was so convinced that trash evaporates in the sun that we had a full-on debate about it.”
u/ageekyninja
14.
I explained that it was the same actor doing different voices.
She couldn’t fathom it.
u/MainKaleidoscope4942
16.
Dude was 19 and working in trades."
u/Complete-Source-5928
17.
“We were eating curry, and we got talking about rice.
She didn’t believe that a rice plant produced more than one grain.
u/AceButcher
18.
“We were in the forest discussing a possible pregnancy scare.
She wanted to ‘knock on wood.’
She walked up to a tree and asked me, ‘This is made of wood, right?’
(Thank God she wasn’t pregnant…)”
u/coinglitch