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.

You know when something just cracks you up !!! 😂 this did .

it was the alpaca post.

We were in our 20s and he wore loafers. This was the 1990s. Who wore loafers in their 20s?????

He's now a very senior doctor and quite the catch, dammit!!!!

It didn’t put me off him, but my ex once had to shave his full beard off and I was shocked at just how different he looked - I honestly could have walked past him in the street and had no idea. Also turned out he had basically no chin but I have a huge chin so I guess we just sort of slotted in? 😂

i get the ick over the tiniest things, and it doesn’t matter how much I like a guy, as soon as he likes me back and we arrange a date, I’ll go off him. I know it’s anxiety but it’s so hard to push past and give them a chance.

when I was 16 and had my first proper boyfriend many things gave me the ick (I don’t think I ever even really fancied him looking back) but one was that whenever he drank, a vein going from his mouth down his neck would turn a really deep blue. I’m incredibly squeamish and even now the memory makes my feet feel funny.

I kind of get this , assuming it was said to you, it is a distinctive and powerful smell. One that could result in strange Oedipus feelings he was trying to avoid…

if you said it to him, fair play…right call.

referring to London as 'the big smoke' not just once, but about 3 times over the night and looking quite pleased with himself as if it was a cool reference - utter twat.

Ah, yes, I forgot the one with the coin purse. Ugh.

Bad hands are one of the biggest turn offs.

The way he walked, his blonde hair, the way he thought he was so clever.

Then one day six years after we first knew each other through work, we both went to a mutual friend's wedding.

I'm not entirely sure what happened but reader, I married him. And we're very happy twelve years after getting together. So I wouldn't let the ick put you off 😂😂

On the topic of drinking. I dated a man who would leak his drink out the corners of his mouth every time he took a drink. It’d just start flowing out like a leaking roof. Knocked me bald at the time

I think I'm with you on that. Watching red wine dribble down someone's chin is no way to spend date night.

This is bronze or silver medal.

I'm picturing Dominic west

Told me he has herpes on the first date

I got told on a second date he had erectile dysfunction

Oh I feel sorry for the last two. When would be a ‘good’ time to tell about those?!

Oh yes, on one second date I was told he had gonorrhoea. I subsequently tested negative and the relationship ended, but we remained friends for a couple of years. I never tired of bringing that story up after a few drinks!!!

He kept coming into the record shop where I worked.. We got chatting and one day he asked me if I wanted to go out for a walk and during that walk admitted that he came in the shop just to see me. I thought it was cos he liked music and was cool. Turns out he didn't, he just liked me. Not cool.

I cringed for you just reading this 🤣

You win.

Another one got binned for saying "Let's rock". He picked me up in his car, agreed where we were going and he said it. We had a drink there and decided to go somewhere else, he said it again. Then when I asked him to take me home he said it again. I knew him before the date and really liked him, he'd never said it before then but I died inside each time he said it.

He was also strangely square shaped.

Love this thread, it should go into Classics!

OK, mine. All different guys:

Came to my place for dinner (both mid twenties, both living in our own places), it was burgers. He immediately asked: "How many am I allowed?"

Early twenties, rarely shaved his ugly patchy bum fluff stubble because "shaving is scary".

Laughed out loud and scorned me when I said the Latin word for planet Earth is Tellus.

Attractive guy chatted me up in a bar and asked what I did for a living. I work in the entertainment industry (think film/TV, behind the scenes/creative/producer). He said that was his dream too and that "the next time we meet, Van, I will have won an Oscar!"
He was a 45+ psychiatrist who had never studied for this 'dream career' of his, or made any attempts towards it.

Biscuit of choice was fig rolls.

(edited because my speling is crapp)

Back in the 1990s when dating was done via magazines with actual letters exchanged I agreed to meet a guy who claimed to be 25 and 5'9". When I arrived he was at least 40 and nothing above 5'6". I was honest and said I completely got that he imagined he might get away with lying about his age but how did he think he was going to get away with lying about his height? I would actually have still gone along with the evening as he was cute, but later he said that "as I saw you walk up I thought that's not my next boyfriend". WTF! You lied about your age and height.

About two years later we ended up on another date where he had answered my ad. When we met up this time his opening words were "oh fuck, not you" and mine were "piss off, you're paying for dinner". We had a great night, no sex obvs.

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Went on a lovely date with a farmers son and I was quite smitten until he complimented me on my small hands. Then proceeded to say they would be ideal for lambing