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

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InstrumentsofTorture · 03/01/2024 17:34

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.

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Wobblebumbelly · 05/01/2024 21:09

I actually think it would have been worse if he said "I love it when you use coconut body lotion, it reminds me of my mum"...

Pudmyboy · 05/01/2024 21:09

he farted by accident when we were alone lying on the sofa and tried to blame me as if i would not have realised it was him. Then said.. don’t worry I don’t mind
The cheek of it!😂

hareagain · 05/01/2024 21:10

IfColoursHatedMe · 03/01/2024 19:45

After sex he put on a fleece jacket because it was chilly in his bedroom. Fair enough it was a bit cold, but that was all he put on. Completely naked from the waist down and bare chested under it. I'm grossing myself out just remembering it.

Reminded me of one that the morning after the first time, put his dressing gown on (fine), with a pair of socks (he said it was chilly, and it was...), went downstairs and put a pair of flip flops on to go outside to check a noise he had heard. The sock/toe post combo killed it there and then despite the great sex. Gutted.

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Mummyoflittledragon · 05/01/2024 20:49

Mine are all non PG.

The first one when I was 16 wanted to have sex with me but insisted he needed to put 2 condoms on. By the time he established this wasn’t going to work, I was backing out, looking to get back on the bus home and never saw him again... I did, however, have a very steamy holiday shag whilst dating this one so it was never written in the stars. The next I also met on holiday, same sort of age… I fancied his older brother, who was there with his gf. No worries, we were still going to have a raunchy evening with and we got in the bath as foreplay. It was long and thin. Couldn’t leave fast enough. The third I was maybe 17/18 and it smelled. Ewww.

God I hope your sex life got better 😂

Namechange4448830938489 · 05/01/2024 21:12

Wobblebumbelly · 05/01/2024 21:09

I actually think it would have been worse if he said "I love it when you use coconut body lotion, it reminds me of my mum"...

Come on now - that's a bit like Prince Harry using Arden 24 hour cream ( or whatever it was ) on his knob and feeling as if Mummy is in the room with him 😂

Mummyoflittledragon · 05/01/2024 21:12

I have another one, this was a ons and we had sex about 7 times one evening. I didn’t orgasm once. We had gone back to his house and instead of ripping our clothes off, he took his off sedately and folded them neatly on a chair. I should have realised there and then the sex was going to be rubbish.

Another time, I went back to a guy’s house. He was a rather well endowed man and clearly had death grip or some other issue as he didn’t climax. Two bloody hours long before we admitted defeat. A couple of weeks later, he was taking another woman back to his place and said to me he’d take me instead if I ‘took it up the arse’. Um no. No thank you. That was the last time I ever spoke to him. Prick. Looking back he was a complete saddo having graduated a few years prior and going to the student Union regularly in tight jeans to pick up girls.

DriftingDora · 05/01/2024 21:23

Pinkyyogapanties · 05/01/2024 19:42

I can’t stop laughing !!!!!

Very fishy!....

OK, I'm leaving now......

Notjustabrunette · 05/01/2024 21:24

I went back to his, and he had those little battle figures that you paint. War hammer? Whatever, it’s called I was not going to have sex with a man who paints little troll figures.

PeopleAreWeird · 05/01/2024 21:24

I fancied a guy for 10 years!!! 10 !
We had sex one night, and i was over him just like that 😂😂😂

DriftingDora · 05/01/2024 21:27

Moorethemerrier · 05/01/2024 18:39

This reminds me of a story my friend told me years ago.

Back when we were 18. She was seeing this guy she was totally smitten with. His dad and step mum were away for the weekend so he invited her to their house. She went to the bathroom for wee to find there was a full roast chicken in the bath.

roasting dish, congealed juices and the carcass of a half eaten chicken.

Ive occasionally left a glass in the sink when I’ve gone away but never my Sunday roast leftovers in the bath!

😂Sounds perfectly normal to me....('scuse me, just got to go and remove the chicken from the upstairs bath..)

Some of these posts have given me a real laugh. Brilliant.

Gilly0812 · 05/01/2024 21:29

He ate pasta with a spoon

Freckles81 · 05/01/2024 21:29

One opened a Budweiser beer at 9 am on a Saturday morning, as soon as we woke up hungover (I crashed at his after the third date but we fell asleep). I was horrified he immediately started back on the booze. Nope.

Another had a strange timbre to his voice; it just didn’t suit him at all, and he also sounded like he had something stuck to the top of his mouth that was cloying. However, the deal breaker was when he got promoted at work and immediately bragged about how much work he’d be giving to the ‘minions below him’.

One was a great big hulk of a man with long, feminine nails. Also mentioned he’d spotted his step brother on a swingers app he was on too, and thought it was funny… yuck

Another looked at least 5’5 in his pictures, but when he stepped out of the car was actually shorter than me (I am under 5’3). He was really skinny with floppy greasy hair that was receding. When he hugged me he giggled that he had a boner :(. Unfortunately I had promised us a picnic in the garden at mine, and felt I couldn’t turn him away after his drive, so started laying out the food on a blanket….which was when he grabbed one of my wrists and excitedly said ‘Oh wow, you have childlike wrists just like mine!’. Still cannot fathom why on earth he thought this would be a good thing to say.

Another turned up an hour late to our date. When I politely informed him I wasn’t staying as he had been rude and hadn’t even text (he told me he couldn’t be bothered and hoped I’d wait anyway), then walked out of the bar, proceeded to follow me, shouting that I was a ‘fucking monster’in a really sing songy Welsh accent, then ran across the road and bellowed across to me: DO NOT PASS GO, GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL, DO NOT PASS GO, GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL. What the actual fuck?

Pluviophile1 · 05/01/2024 21:35

Took great pride in showing me the large weeping wound on his leg. Dropped the c-bomb at the pain of peeling his jeans off it to show me. First date. And last date.

Sebsaloysius · 05/01/2024 21:40

theDudesmummy · 03/01/2024 17:49

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

He bought himself a new VW Beetle and kept the plastic gerbera on the dashboard.

Edit - sorry didn't mean to quote the post above 🙄

2ndMrsdeWinter · 05/01/2024 21:41

He said ‘mmmm’ as he leant in to kiss me.

I CRAWLED up that bed I tell you. Crawled.

abcdefghijkI · 05/01/2024 21:44

We were having ice cream (in a cone) and he let his melt and drip down the cone while he was staring at me all engrossed. Bleurgh

Myridiculousstomach · 05/01/2024 21:47

Ate dinner off a tray on their lap in front of the tv. No issues with eating in front of the tv but the designated tray gave me the ick.

wellhello24 · 05/01/2024 21:49

Kept saying we’d go for a few “cheeky beers”

Freckles81 · 05/01/2024 21:50

Forgot one- During our weird first date he informed me he liked to wind up charity chuggers who stop you in the st by pretending he was really interested then walking away at the last minute, leaving them crestfallen, as well as the fact that he made his mum cry recently by purposefully drinking most of the bottle of wine she was looking forward to drinking after work, which he found amusing. Was living at home after his divorce.

We were in an Art gallery when his jeans started sliding down as he'd deliberately loosened his belt, and aske dme to pull them up loudly.

After disastrous date he then proceeded to send me a GILF porn mag cover/still over FB Messenger with puking emojis next to it out of nowehere to provoke a reaction.

SaraJaneb · 05/01/2024 21:54

He jokingly called me mummy and asked for pudding. All of the sudden I realised all the childlike things he did and suddenly I wasn't attracted to him at all anymore, it was instant.

GirlOfTudor · 05/01/2024 21:59

When I was a teen, I went on a date with a guy I met online. We went to the same college so went to a cafe there. He told me stories about him and family going potholing. It really put me off and I never saw him again 🤢

Another was shortly after the above and I also met him online. I should've learned my lesson by then! He invited me round to his house/bedroom, made me a jam sandwich and we sat on his bed, which had a Thomas the tank engine duvet cover on. He was 19 🤢 That was a quick goodbye.

Hankunamatata · 05/01/2024 22:03

He took me on the train to the airport to watch planes for a date. We were only young teens but I was like life's too short for this crap

Stressedafff · 05/01/2024 22:10

My first ever time round a boys house, he said “shall we have a snuggle” and it just made my fanny turn inside out. I said I had diarrhoea so I could leave, plus I thought he’d be so put off he’d never contact me again

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it’s a guess the film one!

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