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.

Oh @Karrak , it sounds like he was very damaged by what he’d seen, but what lovely memories he left you with.

Was out with long term bloke and he hadnt gelled his hair up & an old drunk sat at bar said "he looks like mr bean" .O.M. G.! How had i not seen it- and then i couldnt UNsee it..Just NO.He had to go.🤔😬

Sadly, I only have one or two farm buildings left but these are packed at the back of a container here. All the toys were hand-built and each was unique and gifted to a child. They would likely have been passed down and sideways and diluted away gradually. Some will have been thrown because the fourth or even fifth generation would not value them now. For sure they would not pass health and safety today. I did get my tongue stuck in the crane winch. Our lives and deeds are temporary.

That (or one of them) was me!
I only ever heard it from one bloke and he was definitely binned. It seemed sort of performative. As in "look how quirky and hilarious I am". Ugh.
Think I have mentioned it a couple of times, on different ick threads.

Early 20's was dating someone who used the word colleagues all the time when talking about nights out he'd been on "so then my colleague 'Dan'....."
At the time it just grated, couldn't understand why if they were going out clubbing together he didn't just call them friends. Couldn't get past it and he had to go.

Met a guy who had a perfectly normal name but wouldn’t answer to it. He would only answer to his nickname which was like a cutesy name you’d call a toddler or a pet. I couldn’t bring myself to actually say that nickname - literally couldn’t let the words (yes more than one word) leave my mouth.

I started visualising introducing a grown man to my friends by using a nursery rhyme style nickname and imagining their faces - I just couldn’t do it!

I can't stand 'lol' either (wasn't that done to death 20 years ago?!) and would just say ha/haha/hahaha! The funnier it is, the more 'ha's' you get... Or just use these 😂

Many moons ago l had an embrace with someone after a meal in a restaurant that was so passionate my bra became undone. I invited him back for coffee and he replied “have you got decaff?”

@Singlepringle1980 ah the sniffing! I had a boyfriend who sniffed EVERYTHING! I told him how irritating it was - he denied doing it. One morning he turned up with a nasty burn beneath his nose and on his top lip. He was ironing his clothes and sniffed the iron. He also assumed we were getting married after 6 weeks and was planning the music for the service. Eeeeek!

Sarah Vine has joined in.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12933741/SARAH-VINE-Saying-Perfecto-Driving-exactly-speed-limit-ham-fisted-unhook-bra-Just-three-things-men-irritate-women-male-foibles-ick-list.html

However, she was married to Michael Gove for years and I just don't see how you wouldn't get the Ick from his lips alone before it even got to a first date.

I had a male (platonic) friend who went through a long phase of saying 'not three bad' instead of 'not too bad'. It was meant in a very performative, "l'm a bit quirky" kind of way. Really annoying.

@Pluviophile1 did he live near Milton Keynes?

No. But that means there is more than one! 😮😆

I spent far too long meeting a guy who used to make the same appreciative noises of pleasure while eating as he did during sex

,@Juggers the irony of writing about the Ick and having that man 😂
Her article is also completely brain dead.

I was the person who did the off-putting thing one time I remember. I ordered scrambled eggs when out for brunch. The guy I was meeting couldn't face a lifetime of being with someone who ate scrambled eggs in public.

Yes, it's all "the ick is puerile nonsense from silly women" - which i suppose comes from twenty odd years of cognitive dissonance of being married to Michael Gove.

Although the article flagged up another one for me

Sunburn

I was young bit the lad had sunburnt shoulders and it put me right off him

Oo just no!! Never. 😬

@NotFastButFurious work shoes and jeans just dreadful. I went to an away day where someone was similarly attired , topped with an Arran jumper. Shoes were pointy as well, another massive urrggghhhh.

That reminds me… massive ick for me is when men put sun cream on and it doesn’t fully rub in and gives them a blue tinge.. especially when I’m their stubble 🤢

Men who are so infatuated by football. Go to all the football games, talk about it daily, go to the pub and drink and watch football, wear football memorabilia.

I just cannot stand it.

Bit of the opposite, but when I was 20, I had been with a complete wanker for about 5 months. He asked if I felt comfortable doing anal. I'd had enough experience with my previous partner so happily obliged. It had been a while since I'd done it but felt comfortable to do so.
Whilst we were doing the deed, I got an immense stomach ache and told him to stop, as soon as he removed his piece, I farted and a bit of shit hurtled and landed on my back from the impact 😭 he immediately ran to the bathroom gagging and I was mortified.

That was the last time I ever did anal.

He split up with me.

I'd have binned him for the nail polish nonsense alone! Hope you bought the one you wanted. 💙 I read somewhere that when the Queen was alive female members of the royal family could only wear nail polish in those nude sorts of colours. Fuck that! I love nail polish too much for that!

First boyfriend, carried his rucksack like the Queen carried her handbag. I still slept with him, unfortunately, then a few months later he ghosted me.

Is there no justice in this world??!!