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.

Used to talk to my family dog and do her replies (fine) but in the wrong accent.

(I always did it with her having a regal accent, absolutely NOT a West Country one.)

Really loud chewing

We went to the cinema and he said he’d go and get the snacks. He came back with the most enormous bag of salt and vinegar and one bottle of fruit shoot. He ate the entire bag of salt and vinegar (about the size of his forearm) and offered me some of the fruit shoot after he had his lips around it.

Never saw him again.

Have put this on an 'ick' thread in the past but worth repeating:
Years ago, fancied a bloke I saw regularly at the disco (told you it was years ago!)
Finally got off with him, he said he had a car and offered me a lift home, as we walked to the carpark I said he could come in for a cup of tea, which was definitely a euphemism......got to the car......it was a Robin Reliant.....the offer of a cup of tea became literal and I barely gave him time to finish before he was out of the door!

Call me shallow but, in the end, he supports Carlton Football Club. I cannot abide Carlton. Two years it took me to decide that. There were other things but this stood out. Sad, because there wasn’t a mean bone in his body.

20 years ago - went to meet an online date. For some reason we’d not swapped real names, only knew our website nicknames.
Turned out he was called Wayne… and my name is Jayne. 😬

Hard no to becoming ”Jayne’n’Wayne”!

Made me think of those 80s couple car windscreen stickers.

Nostril hairs protruding from his nose. Lots of them.😬

He had better foundation than I did. Chanel to be precise. And he spent longer in the shower.

No because I was 21 and desperate to lose my virginity. But I should have trusted in the signs because the sex was as cringe and wrong as the texts.

No wonder there are so many miserable women on here

Had a small head. Shame as everything else about him was promising.
I couldn't get the thought, 'I could fit your entire head in my hand' out of my head whenever I looked at him.

Did this thing where he stood with the heel of one foot tucked into the middle of the other foot, with toes pointing outwards kind of like a ballet dancer in third position. He was not a ballet dancer.

-Checked trousers
-Shoes without socks
-Public school accent

This has finished me off.

He had the same name as my brother.

Me too!

A dd once brought a male uni friend to stay, who didn’t like dogs. After he’d left she told me what she’d said to him before they arrived. ‘You’ll have to pretend to like our dog or my mum will hate you!’ 😂

He had name labels sewn into his underwear by his mother.

He was 26.

I'd met him on holiday and turns out he worked in the city I lived in. I thought i really liked him so met him for dinner once home, and he was wearing a polo neck jumper, and that was the end of that.

I can't actually remember his name now, but I remember his neckline clear as day 21 years later!

Perfectly reasonable. A thin fitted polo neck on a man is too Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber) for me.

My husband was on thin ice during our first winter when he wore a scarf wrapped around his neck with the two ends draped over his shoulders and down his back.

Tied his shoelaces annoyingly - sort of finished tying them with a unnecessary yank. And stirred his tea aggressivly - too fast and loudly.

It was MY involuntary action in the end. I found myself covering the ATM screen or chip and pin device any time I entered my pin and he was standing behind me.

And you'd think it would already be over after he told me we were going to a rugby club do, only to find out after hours of getting ready that he meant he'd just be doing a minor drug deal in the rugby club car park.

All the same guy...didn't last long !

My next door neighbours as a child were Wayne and Jayne they were twins. With an older brother, Kane. FFS who does that?

That reminded me of a friend who went home with a bloke she met in a fancy bar in Kensington who told her he was an aspiring musician who had just landed a recording contract.

He insisted on running her a bath, lighting scented candles and pouring her a glass of champagne when they got in. Some people might find that romantic but it gave her Silence of the Lambs vibes.

The last straw was when he pulled out his guitar and serenaded her with what she described as moany, miserable songs in a falsetto voice. She got the uncontrollable giggles at his unexpected reedy, high voice so she texted her flatmate to call her with a plumbing emergency to get her out of there.

I've just read the majority of these posts, and am honestly shocked at 99% of the answers that have been shared. So you're seriously telling me that these things seemed like valid reasons for ending an otherwise potentially great relationship with another person?

It makes you all seem incredibly shallow with a very low tolerance for other people. I genuinely find these replies all quite sad.

Would you have quit being friends with someone because they wore the same perfume as your nan? It just seems like you all starred in a real life version of Mean Girls