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.

Ahhh dying at this. Absolutely terrible

We went to a formal 'do' and he wore trousers with matching waistcoat, shirt and tie but no jacket

He wore these brown suede shoes on a date with indigo jeans. We were 21.

Howling 🤣🤣

If he had served in the British forces in last 20 years or so it's highly likely he HASD visited Afghan/Iraq 🤣

First love "wore" his set of keys (house, car etc) on a clip on his trouser belt. For some reason I just couldn't cope with the sight of them dangling and clinking around when he walked. He refused to put them in a pocket. End game for me!!

Years ago I was seeing someone who lived in a different city. Every weekend he’d come and stay at mine. Eventually after a few months I went to his place. He had a Fernando Torres duvet cover. He was in his 30s. I never saw him again.

Why so? Its for hygiene and keeping one's body dry.

The point of this thread is IRRATIONAL reasons. It’s a bit of fun and doesn’t need analysing.

He cooked everything in a deep fat fryer.

Turned up for a date in cowboy boots

Said "stroll on" at random times

Did a funny sort of growl after a laugh. Hard to describe but it made me embarrassed for him

Came for dinner and said "oh steak. Yum"

All different men

I know I've said this before on here, some years ago.
The one who couldn't say his R's.. fine in itself but he had a habit of announcing he was 'widiculously wandy' but as his first name began with R he'd actually say 'Woger is widiculously wandy' (not his actual name) He'd refer to himself in third party and private parts as him / her/ she - 'does she like that' etc...

The one who turned up with a card with a picture of an egg on it... 'I'm eggstatic to meet you' and constantly said 'wowsers'. He was in his 40s. The card was cheesy enough for me to get over but not wowsers

One that only ever refered to his mother, as 'mum mum'

Picked his nose his public.
Another one cried like a baby when he got some melted candle wax spilled on his chest (some people pay good money for that!).
DC's father, when I said something about "when we're old", replied that we might not be together when we're old. That was the end.

Back in the 80s. He was beautiful. He was Russian (very exotic at the time). But he insisted on asking to speak to "Miss Tuc" when he rang me at work. I told him it should be "Tuc" or "Miss Sandwich". He wouldn't do it so he had to go. All I could hear was Benny from Crossroads.

Ex BF surprised me with a furry knobcover / jockstrap monstrosity that was supposed to resemble some kind of animal. It was the moment I realised we were Not Compatible.

Back in the 90's, blind date was waiting for me at the designated meeting spot; my heart sank. I knew it was him straightaway even though he was looking the other way.

• He said he was 5'11.......more like 5'8 (I'm 5'9)
• He was wearing old brown cords that were too short
• He was wearing those black ankle boots with the elasticated sides
• And a blue puffa jacket

He turned around and:

• he had that very fine hair where you could count the follicles
• He then smiled and his teeth were a car crash

Yep. All the same bloke. 😱

Driving to a breakfast date and at a Zebra crossing an old man with a walking stick started walking out, clearly nervous he stopped in the middle and looked as my date breaked the car to shop. can’t describe well in words but the date ‘ejected his head so far it almost popped out of his neck and shouted YEAH! As in what you looking at the poor old man who was clearly busy worried the car wasn’t going to stop’ Isn’t ick!

Not sharing food. Seriously get out of my life, leave, exit, flee, vamos.

🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤮

Took his washing home to his mum at the age of 34.

The summer before I went to university I met a really nice man, spent much of the summer staying with his lovely family in a scenic area of the country. But he kept saying "all the fun of the fair" and would wave at people driving the same car as his. Dumped him when I got my results and still feel slightly guilty forty-plus years on.

This has also reminded me of another guy who sniffed his food before he ate it. At home & in public. Made me want to push his face into his plate. Also had nasty habit of “forgetting” his wallet when we went out for dinner. So I was paying for the pleasure of watching him sniff his fork - and sometimes use his other hand to waft the delicious aroma to his pointy nose. ICK!!!! Also he once cried in a pub when I said I wouldn’t book a holiday abroad for the next year, we’d been dating 6 weeks. I’ve never regretted dumping him.

He had slight vitiligo on his dick, Fine no issue..but couldn't admit to this so he said years ago he'd sunbathed naked and this was the resulting damage.
Dick was also very very long and very thin and had a mole right on the end, so it looked like an unsharpened pencil. He was a serial liar anyway

The one night stand that lived in Staines and had the stains to match
and kissed like a slobbering labrador
The one who refused to buy a bin, so always used an overflowing bin bag we'd trip over, even though he pretty much lived in one room

Oh, I’ve got lots of examples of these! All different men.

1. He was scared of pigeons. There was one pottering around in the pavement near our outside table at a bar and he recoiled from it like a panicked child.

1. He casually mentioned that he ‘thought there must be something in it’ when the subject of astrology came up.

1. He said ‘self-depreciating’ instead of ‘self-deprecating’.

1. His favourite band was Level 42.