What absolutely ridiculous and inconsequential things have put you off a partner?

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I don't mean completely acceptable reasons like poor hygiene, lying, flakiness etc. I mean things that the poor other person could not possibly have anticipated would mean the end of their relationship.

For me it was many years ago when I finally finally got together with a lad I'd had a crush on for about 3 years. About 2 months after we started seeing each other he invited me to his house. Which is where he committed the unforgivable sin of picking up a broom and sweeping the kitchen floor.

That was it. 3 years of obsessing over him and, just like that, a bloody sweeping brush came between us.

"Please don't wear coconut body lotion. I do like it, but it smells like my mum".

Stone dead 😅

I spoke to a guy on the phone (from a dating site) - he said I made him chuckle. That was the end of the call for me.

I was only thinking of this earlier when I was brushing up some crumbs. My ex used to say 'brush and dustpan' instead of 'dustpan and brush' and it used to irrationally really annoy me. He did a whole ton of annoying things though but that was the most inconsequential

Totally understandable.

He cooked couscous for us with a lot of stuff added including feta cheese. The feta cheese pieces were too small for my liking and when he went to get a second helping for himself he fished almost all the tiny pieces of feta cheese leaving virtually none for me if I decided to have a second helping too.

We were 18 and went to a party and he wore a jumper with a diamond pattern - I was mortified cos my stepdad had the same jumper!

Another as teens he had a long black trench coat with GOLD lining.

Another never washed his pillowcases ew! Bye bye

He was wearing socks with sandals. He had to go.

He dyed his hair pink.

Had a shower and then proceeded to use talcum powder. Never saw him again.

he had feminine hands

He wore a baby blue cardigan to a smart London restaurant.

@TurquoiseTurtoise 😂 I remember that post

They looked like an alpaca from the side.

😂😂😂

I was instantly planning my exit from a guy who wore a hand knitted jumper his mum had made him on our second date 😂

Dying with laughter at this 🤣

Crossed his legs like Lily Savage when sitting. No.

Years ago I went on a date with a bloke I'd fancied for a while and things were going well until he randomly did a very good impression of Sid the ground sloth from the film Ice Age. Totally killed it for me and there was never a second date.

By the end, the way he breathed.

What was wrong with the broom? Id love that !

The most wonderful gorgeous kind man, wore a short sleeve check shirt on first date. Couldn’t get past it!

He said "Ooh whoopsie" when he dropped something or knocked something over. It happened about 4 or 5 times on our first date and really put me off him.

@MustIthough 🤣🤣🤣 same cannot abide the short sleeve shirt!

I could not get over one being called Jason.

One traded in a fun VW car for a Lada and that was it, all lights gone out!

Wore a tricorn hat to the pub.
One of the biggest regrets of my life is not forgiving that hat. I was looking for a life partner. But decided he could not wear a tricorn hat. I went on to have several abusive relationships. The man with the tricorn hat met and married someone soon after and they live a beautiful life (we still have mutual friends).
Next time, I'll look past the hat!

I once got dumped because I knocked an empty beer bottle off a nightclub table and it smashed on the floor. He absolutely kicked off, I think he said something about disgusting yobbish behaviour. Because I knocked a bottle over 🤷‍♀️