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.

1- he spoke about his love of guns 😶
2- he touched my arm (nothing inappropriate but made me recoil immediately)
3- spoke to a guy for weeks online, finally met up and he failed to mention his VERY noticeable limp (some pre warning would have been nice)
4- he got upset after one date because I didn't text back quick enough
5- he dropped my big Yankee candle and smashed it. I still feel uncontrollable rage about this one to this day! I was so angry I couldn't wait another day to dump him so he was dumped on April fools day!

(All different blokes)

Omg this made me cringe!

He also kissed like someone sadly posting a deflated balloon in my mouth

OMG 😂

Could well be, Dibilnik! Also my name has an R in it...

We are actually still friends, he's a very funny, quirky guy but immensely annoying, which he's proud of. He's also been single for about 25 years, hmmm!

Not partners.. just ones that never made second dates..
My friend thought I loved long haired rock star types so arranged a date with her friend's brother. Yes he had the Robert Plant 70s era hair but he was under 5ft, I'm not kidding, and I'm 5ft 10. We met at my friends gig and the whole time he was muttering how shit they were and how his band could do much better. Yeh, sure your piddly pub band in Norfolk could fill up this well known London venue... He wore too long flares (of course too long! he was under 5ft!) and jesus sandals with no socks. He asked to come back to mine. He did not come back to mine. I told friend later, why did you choose a man for me so small I could have used him for a tampon?

The tambourine man (his first name also rhymed with this) He invited me to see his band, saying he was 'in percussion'. He lolloped about on stage wearing flares and playing a tambourine. What is it about men in flares and me?! Over 20 yrs on my friends never ever let me live this one down about the talented musician. Only talent was the amount of coke he took.

I had to dump a guy after he cried at the real tear jerker of a film that is.....Honey-i shrunk the kids! When they are trying to make thier way through the garden back to the house and the ant died he literally wailed.

(Sweet really but I'm dead inside-it would never of worked)

@Firefly2009 no explanation, I didn't stick around long enough to find out. I think he'd gone a a bit soft and that was just how he liked to do it. I'm pretty sure I played dead and left when he went to sleep, never to be seen again.

Might dump DP for the following misdemeanors:

• He says "I'm going to pop to the loo"
• He reads blogs
• He holds his fork in his fist and uses it like a shovel.

Have ditched 3 separate men for these trivial reasons:

• Shaved his chest and pubic hair into a shape like Austin Powers.
• Got his hair cut into a shape that made him resemble Oor Wullie.
• Stroked my skin and said it felt "luxuuuuuurious"

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he was muttering how shit they were and how his band could do much better. Yeh, sure your piddly pub band in Norfolk could fill up this well known London venue...
You never know... seriously!

Re the tambourine man "in percussion", I once went out with someone who told me this joke
Q: What do you call a weirdo who hangs out with musicians?
A: A drummer.

He was actually a drummer himself, which made the joke all the more charming, until he turned out to be an absolute fucking weirdo to beat all weirdos!

Dibilnik, my earlier post re the randy as a ram yorkshire man, is a drummer!
I've been out with two actually.
Never again!
Ah here's a brilliant anecdote about the second (recent breakup). I would take the piss out of his going to bed so early... he said it's because brain work is more tiring than physical (a dig at me as have a very stressful, physical job) and his brain is of course huge..(he was on a certain famous tv show under the spotlight shall we say, and doesn't everyone know about this..) So I told him his moobs and ego are also huge.

I've got a t-shirt from Topshop saying 'you're not a musician, you're just a drummer' .

One man I dated told me what we’d be doing later. Sort of ‘so I’ll come to your apartment, we’ll go out for drinks …’ I let him finish before I said I’m actually not doing any of that 😂 Another left dribble marks down the side of his cup when he drank coffee or tea. One man I dated was lovely but I just didn’t like his smell 🤷🏼‍♀️ he wasn’t dirty but his natural odour repelled me … One man invited me for dinner and invited all his family to meet me without telling me. I kissed SO many 🐸 😂

My ex announced in company that he hadn’t finished reading a book since high school! We didn’t split up for a good couple of years after, but I went right off him in that moment.

My ex husband bought me 2 of those figures (I was 34) for Christmas one year. Not surprisingly that was the last Christmas we were together!

One would breath through his nose when he was eating and it made a little whistling sound - 🤢
And another was called Barry, asked me to call him Baz and I just couldn't (sorry any Barry/Baz's

Probably irrational but the straw which broke the camel's back was the time I shared a jar of chunky salsa to dip our tortilla chips in. Said date made a fuss that they didn't want any onions/ peppers in the salsa, so would scrape his tortilla chip on the side of the jar for what felt like ETERNITY after every dip until it was plain sauce, while I patiently sat there waiting for my next go. It's been 15 years and I still feel the rage. Petty I know 🤣

Omg I’m crying 😂😂😂

My friend was in a long distance relationship and indulged in a lot of phone sex with her beau. Things came to an abrupt end when she was talking dirty to him, asking him what he was going to do to her next time he saw her and the word "lapping" was used...

A lot of these are funny awkwardness but every so often one pops in that is just blatant unashamed abelism which is really depressing and sad.

Got his hair cut into a shape that made him resemble Oor Wullie.

Did you date my dad lol.

If unfortunately you did (he has got through many relationships sometimes with women barely older than me) then you where right to break up with him, hes an arsehole.

Oh God Sharoon for a monent I thought this was all one person!! 😵

Sang “Love Shack” on late okie with his sister.

shared a video on FB with the caption “this gave me a giggle”

What absolutely ridiculous and inconsequential things have put you off a partner?
What part of the thread title did you not understand?

Did he work in the NHS? It's a common shorthand on the wards