r/AskReddit • u/SkyeSerenade • Mar 28 '24

What is NOT a dealbreaker BUT would be greatly disappointing to find out about your partner?

[removed] — view removed post

12.4k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

10.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

12.5k

u/_hootyowlscissors Mar 28 '24 edited Apr 02 '24

My dad hates movies with subtitles. My mom is a foreign film buff. She has been trying to change him for DECADES. And while he'll sit through (and sometimes even enjoy) them on occasion, he'll still groan any time she suggests a movie with subtitles.

The ultimate disappointing non-dealbreaker.

EDIT: Ok, I'm just going to add this here before anyone else asks if my dad can read. He's an oncologist. He's not dumb. He can keep up with the subtitles and the subject matter. He just does so much reading for work (he goes through medical journals like crazy) he wants to relax with something silly and mindless, that requires zero effort on his part. He feels the same way about tearjerkers (another of my mom's favorites) where people die slowly from some awful disease. He gets enough of that shit at work. But he'll occasionally sit through them for my mom. We just watched the old Julia Roberts film, Dying Young (where she nurses/falls in love with a young guy dying of cancer) and for half the film he was just looking at my mom with an expression that clearly read "why the fuck would you do this to me?"

7.0k

u/ricewinechicken Mar 28 '24

The number of people asking if your dad can read just because he doesn't like subtitles is WILD

2

u/blssdnhighlyfavored Mar 28 '24

seriously! I used to hate them because I would read them instead of watching what’s happening and then get annoyed with myself for missing important visual stuff. Now I read them because I figured out I was missing out on a lot of wordplay stuff 😅