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.

My sisters lovely friend had a crush on me, and there was a big expectation that I'd be up for it, because she a perfectly pretty woman. But she is blonde, with a fringe, and on our one and only date, I kept thinking of an afghan hound the whole time.

My mum liked him

He wore a white sweatshirt

My friends took the piss because he had a stupid name

What can I say, I was a shallow teenager 😂.

when getting dressed he would put his tshirt on first, then his boxer shorts.

Would say ‘a bite to eat’ instead of ‘having a meal ‘
As in ‘oh, we could go for a bite to eat beforehand’
it just gripped my gears so much.

One guy brought wrapped up gifts to the date and I just couldn’t get over the fact he’d spent time wrapping presents up for someone he’d never met. One of the most pretentious people I’ve ever met as well, it was a vinyl (never owned a record player so useless) and a Sylvia Plath book which I still own.

He also asked me to name any country in Asia and he could almost guarantee he’d visited it, he was about 7/8 years older than me and thought he was far wiser and
more well travelled. He was expecting me to say something like Japan or Thailand so I said Afghanistan and Iraq.

Using a fork instead of a knife to cut food.

Using the word reckon.

Different men over the years

Titty man was a low-and the last

I met dp just afterwards

Using the word 'poorly', as in 'I'm feeling a bit poorly'. I know it's regional, but it made him seem as if he was about 7. Perhaps it was the whiny voice also attached to it down the phone, & the expectation he'd get loads of sympathy for having a bit of a cold/ sore throat. I wanted to punch the phone.

On the flip side to the OP, someone who didn't know how to use a mop and bucket, or how to chop an onion. I was speechless.

Just remembered the guy at uni I fancied for months, stared at him in lectures, wrote in my diary how much I loved him. Finally got it together with him at a drunken event and we arranged a date. SO EXCITED.

Then he spent the whole date doing impressions of Napoleon Dynamite 🫠

He was utterly obsessed with oasis and would copy the haircut and the paisley patterned shirts.

Oh and he was abusive and occasionally wet himself.

Major ick 🤣😭

This all reminds me of the very last Seinfeld episode. Elaine reflects that her flakiest reason was how someone ate their peas…and what that said about her.

Back in the days when you had to pay a premium to sit in the fancy seats at the cinema, my date paid for the cheap seats but sat in the fancy seats. Never saw him again. It just gave me the ick,

The way he laughed. He did it a lot. Too loudly and at inappropriate times. I caught myself shushing him one day and knew I had to end it.

My partner says this 😂he would message me "just doing some washing up" he meant sorting laundry out. Before we moved in together.

Has that happened again with the next guy? And the next? !

I’ve had a few but the one that stands out most is the guy I’d had 4 dates with, he seemed really nice. On 5th date we went for a meal and he asked if I like his moustache, I was a bit taken aback and nodded and smiled as I had a mouthful of food. He then proceeds to whisper “good because it’ll tickle your clit as I’m licking your slit” 😳 The worst part is, when I said I didn’t want to see him again he couldn’t understand what he’d said wrong and I was apparently the “weird one” as previous dates had laughed.

Came round to my parents house to pick me up (I was 18). My mum invited him in, I suppose to check him out a bit, fair enough. Anyway we had a little dog at the time & at one point he was kneeling on the floor petting her going ooooh aren't you a good girl. Eurgh.

Because some of his contemporaries were going bald, he was inordinately proud of his thick/long hair. So he used to swish it in a "Because I'm worth it" way 🤮

He also asked me to name any country in Asia and he could almost guarantee he’d visited it, he was about 7/8 years older than me and thought he was far wiser and
more well travelled. He was expecting me to say something like Japan or Thailand so I said Afghanistan and Iraq

I love this. What a pompous git 😂

When I gave him my number he said ‘I’ll just call it to check you didn’t give me a fake one haha’ and then he called it! I had actually considered giving him a fake number as was getting quite clingy vibes off him on first meeting - how awkward would it have been if I had?! And then would he have expected a real number? Reader, I ghosted him.

That would give me the ick as well! I love food, and all my favourite things have those as ingredients. Plus the idea that rice and pasta are 'foreign' is hilarious, considering they've been part of our culinary history for years.

This thread is absolutely hilarious 😂

Only really one springs to mind, and it was the guys accent that was a hard no. He was such a catch, he was gorgeous, funny, tall, so handsome, had his own place, a nice car, a good job (latter three more impressive given we were only 20) but I could not tolerate his voice 😳 So that was that.

When I found out a guy wore briefs. Instant ick, unfortunately.

Don't understand. What is wrong with sweeping the floor? Its common in many households to sweep/vacuum before or after cooking.