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Things that made your ex unattractive

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FuckingFabulous · 29/07/2021 18:13

I'm not talking about the "s/he was a cheat/abuser/criminal/gaslighter" type stuff, because that is entirely understandable and totally deserves its own thread for all survivors of that fuckery. I'm talking about the small stuff that made you look at them like, "You're grim."

-My ex didn't brush his teeth every day. At one point, I put paste on his brush and it was there and dried on 9 days later. Ew, do not even attempt to kiss me.

-He also pronounced the emergency medical response vehicle as "Ambliance." Cringe, cold chills, skin prickling.

  • if he'd been outside doing ANYTHING, even talking to a neighbour, when he came back in he would look at me with an expression of devastated, dead on his feet exhaustion and just say, "Coffee" in a really croaky voice.
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Mangofandangoo · 30/07/2021 13:55

Very sparse chest hair, only around the nipples 🤢

Insertdeadcatsnamehere · 30/07/2021 14:53

The head on shoulder thing. Looking up at me like a giant gross baby. Urgh. Skin crawling just thinking about it.

Aquafizzle · 30/07/2021 15:18

Absolutely pissing myself at these Grin

Parttimemostofthetime · 30/07/2021 15:20

My ex would exaggerate and make up silly stories. After we broke up and I started dating a farmer ex (we unfortunately still worked together) told everyone one lunchtime a story about how he rocked up at a farm one day and got roped in to shearing 300 sheep. I was stood cringing thinking "no you fucking didnt". Some of the other ladies hung on his every word. (In case interested shearing takes a lot of practice and skill and 300 in a day is good going for an experienced person let alone a first timer)

He also reckoned he'd out ran a police car I his 1.0ltr clio

Parttimemostofthetime · 30/07/2021 15:24

He also need constant assurance of "what a good looking lad I am" gross

Wishingwell75 · 30/07/2021 15:24

I haven't laughed like this for ages but equally some of them are really making me feel unwell Envy
Forget the thread needing a trigger warning, it's obvious some men need to be walking around with one!

FuckingFabulous · 30/07/2021 15:38

This has really made me think back. My very first boyfriend, when approaching ejaculation (we were each other's first) would try to announce it but couldn't get his words out! So he would always do this weird "oh! Oh! I cu.....I cuhhhhhhh" thing and after a few times of it, it would make me feel uncomfortable to even be there. Like embarrassed to have been a part of that moment but I gave him a pass because in that moment maybe he couldn't control himself and we were both inexperienced but the sex was actually rather good. It irritated me that he would always have to announce his arrival like a garbled train tannoy no matter where we were and who could have overheard, but time ticked and eventually we moved in together. I heard him in the bathroom on the second night. After ten minutes in there, there was a very audible "I cu......I cuuuuuuhhhh!!!!" It was like I had ice water running down my spine. I couldn't stop the shudder. When we broke up about a year later (on good terms) his first girlfriend after was a friend of mine and she got hold of me to let me know that their sex together was SO GOOD that he couldn't even string a sentence together during it. I did not have the heart to tell her that it was his standard cum noise, even when self pleasuring.

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torquewench · 30/07/2021 15:42

I've remembered a few more (apologies) - drinking 4 or 5 strong beers every night, followed by whisky, followed by snoring like a hippo all night.

Breath that could strip paint from 5 paces - his SIL was driving us somewhere once and had to open the window when he was talking to her, I could see her gagging.

Living in a filthy, damp, smelly, untidy house - 2 mountain bikes, numerous van and motorbike parts stored in the (v small) living room, ironing board constantly out, permanent laundry drying in there too, nowehere to sit because the sofas were covered in clothing/helmets/parts/mess, coffee table was the same, covered in crap, wallpaper peeling off the staircase walls because of damp, cobwebs everywhere, broken/cracked toilet pan, broken toilet flush mechanism. He wondered why I refused to move in with him Hmm. The kitchen (just a space with a cooker and a sink in it really) was filthy, no cupboards or plaster on the walls. It's been exactly the same for about 6 years, I tidied for him occasionally when I couldn't stand the mess any longer but it'd be back to normal within hours

Cupboards full of his ex's belongings that he wouldn't bin (but never noticed when I did).

Car and van full of crap, some of it dated 2005!! Expecting me to be happy about sleeping in back of said van amongst all the crap (including bottles he used for pissing in) when we went "camping".

WHAT THE FUCK WAS I THINKING???

I did mostly enjoy his company though, when he wasn't being a pissed paranoid narcissistic meff. He's currently seeing someone who lives nearly 300 miles away, where no-one else knows him. Good luck to her, she needs it.

Frymetothemoon · 30/07/2021 15:47
  • neediness
  • inability to "adult" - file a tax return, obtain insurance, see a doctor
  • trying to satisfy my emotional needs by giving me expensive gifts - i.e. not "getting" me at all
torquewench · 30/07/2021 15:49

@FuckingFabulous

This has really made me think back. My very first boyfriend, when approaching ejaculation (we were each other's first) would try to announce it but couldn't get his words out! So he would always do this weird "oh! Oh! I cu.....I cuhhhhhhh" thing and after a few times of it, it would make me feel uncomfortable to even be there. Like embarrassed to have been a part of that moment but I gave him a pass because in that moment maybe he couldn't control himself and we were both inexperienced but the sex was actually rather good. It irritated me that he would always have to announce his arrival like a garbled train tannoy no matter where we were and who could have overheard, but time ticked and eventually we moved in together. I heard him in the bathroom on the second night. After ten minutes in there, there was a very audible "I cu......I cuuuuuuhhhh!!!!" It was like I had ice water running down my spine. I couldn't stop the shudder. When we broke up about a year later (on good terms) his first girlfriend after was a friend of mine and she got hold of me to let me know that their sex together was SO GOOD that he couldn't even string a sentence together during it. I did not have the heart to tell her that it was his standard cum noise, even when self pleasuring.

I had a ONS who shouted "I'm coming, I'm coming" in my ear. Instant fanny shrivel right there. Both times Blush

torquewench · 30/07/2021 15:52

Oh, and the ex that never cleaned his teeth, used to suck on them instead. All The Time. Did my head in.

BIoodyStupidJohnson · 30/07/2021 15:53

Overuse of the word 'scenario'

TigersandTeddybears · 30/07/2021 16:06

If he didn't have a tissue he used to find something else and kind of blast the snot out of his nose on to it. Like a magazine or newspaper or tea towel or something. Used to do this into socks too. Id rather socks full of cum than that. Yuck.

Used to pose in the mirror and then wink at himself every morning and say something like "still got it". Eew.

Used to squeeze his black heads and spots and then show me the shit that came out. No I am not in awe of your puss, get that ooze away from me.

Used to double dip things. Like he'd be cooking, lick the ladle, then put it back in, or take a spoonful of peanut butter out, lick the spoon then put it back in. I won't eat a buffet, I hate double dipping that badly. It made me question his hygiene standards all round really.

Used to spend far too long cleaning his shoes and hardly any time cleaning his teeth.

TigersandTeddybears · 30/07/2021 16:12

Showing me the contents of his ears on a ear bud or his teeth on a toothpick. I think he was just a total sporner and I'm not and he couldn't get that that stuff is pretty yuck to everyone else.

The boyfriend before used to hold himself like a body builder all the time, like posing so you could see his muscles. It made him look so weirdly proportioned. He used to like to show me his belly button fluff.

Men are fucking weird

TheCrowening · 30/07/2021 17:01

When I moved in with my ex I discovered that every day, upon returning hone from work, he’d shut the front door behind himself and then let out a loud, long, smelly belch. It went on for ages and hit at least eight different notes. Killed that relationship stone dead.

Same ex. I don’t know if anyone remembers the shiny blue micro-shorts that were around in the 80s/90s? He came to meet me in town dressed in a pair of those and flip flops. I ran into a friend of mine shortly afterwards and I actually apologised for how he was dressed. Bitchy I know but I was young and mortified, and already trying to figure out how best to leave him (due to above burping).

In fairness though, I am absolutely certain that I also do fucking annoying and for some people intolerable things.

longwayoff · 30/07/2021 17:18

Ah, memories. I gave up men after an early menopause. THANK GODGrin

BrozTito · 30/07/2021 17:22

I want to punch people who say 'tonggggggg' for tongue

Blindleadingtheblind · 30/07/2021 19:23

Used the same kitchen cloth for 5+ years for every surface - sink, bin, floor

This made me feel absolutely sick! 🤮

torquewench · 30/07/2021 20:33

@Blindleadingtheblind

Used the same kitchen cloth for 5+ years for every surface - sink, bin, floor

This made me feel absolutely sick! 🤮

I won't mention that bleach or kitchen spray was never on his shopping list then ...
TotoAnnihiliation · 30/07/2021 22:46

The one that said, I'm more intelligent that the most people, in fact I a think I am a savant. This was after he had forced me to me to watch play a PlayStation game all afternoon. I'm so proud of 21 year ild me dumping him later that day.

cataclysmiclife · 31/07/2021 12:41

Oh god I got the toddler tantrums, slamming doors and stomping upstairs to lay face down on the bed. Like a 14 year old.

The constant phone use

And I'd looked after our 1 year old triplets from 07.30 am to 18.30 pm so I sat down and had a glass of wine when he came in from work. He said all I did all day was sit about drinking wine all day Hmm

I lost all respect for him and we are now separated

cataclysmiclife · 31/07/2021 12:47

Oh and lay in hospital after having a c section with triplets -all three babies in incubators in NICU and on day 4 he decided "he couldn't face it today so wasn't coming into visit"

Bellend.

doglikescheeseontoast · 31/07/2021 13:16

He used to use the toilet in the en suite to take a dump, even if I was in the bath in the same room. We had 2 other toilets in the house he could have used, but no, it was HIS toilet and he was jolly well going to use it. Thinking back, he was quite controlling.

recall · 31/07/2021 16:08

Couldn’t blow balloons up

Couldn’t eat mince pies with snow ( icing sugar ) on top without sneezing and having a coughing fit

Wore a tweed gilet

Made ballet dancer shaped feet, and moved them in time to music whilst sat watching tv

Called Trick or Treating “Trickle Treating”

Would sit watching tv yanking out his nasal hairs with his fingers and wiping them off onto the sofa

enigmatoto · 31/07/2021 20:21

Lulola Thu 29-Jul-21 22:41:06

My ex refused to get out of bed on a weekend because it was his “me time”. He would take bags of crisps and a 2l bottle of pop to bed on a Friday night alongside a Dominos he had got on his way home and wouldn’t get out of bed until the Monday for work except for using the en-suite when needed.

Shock, this is such ridiculously bonkers behaviour, to the point of actually being funny!

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