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.

I don't really get this one surely him not wanting to be sexual with someone that smelt like his Mum was a good thing?
If on the other hand he said please wear this or I love that you use this because it smells like my mum that would be a serious problem 🥴.

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I once dumped someone who said he was going to 'point Percy at the porcelain'.

@NeverDropYourMooncup maybe you had covid. 😬😬

I hear you. Mine used to say he was going to jump in the shower. Every time. I tried lightly teasing him for a few years but he didn’t get the hint.

In the end I had to sit him down and have a talk with him.

I went off someone as soon as I'd pulled him because of the way he cleared his throat.

You are referring to “The Ick” OP.

Ive posted these before on an Ick thread:

The one who (aged only around 19 bless him) was losing his hair and used to gel the front into 5 individual “strands” of hair (this was the 90’s tbf but it still looked shit)

The one who had psoriasis on his scalp and when we were “getting down to it” one night I realised he also dyed his hair (but it looked more like some kind of coloured hairspray) and the sight of jet black scalp intermingled with huge flakes of skin just made me want to 🤮
I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.

The one who shouted “Wunderbar”! in a German accent when he came.
Apparently this was funny.

The one who had huge zits on his back and used to ask me to “pop his custards” for him 🤢 🤮 erm…no thanks!

Tbf, none of these things are ridiculous or inconsequential but very valid reasons to run away screaming and never look back!

My ex only showered when he wanted sex 🤢🤢🤢🤢 ( nope just no)

If you notice that sort of thing, are you also driven mad by how the BBC can’t use ‘the’ anymore? I mean as in ‘The United States/Nation/UK’ Makes me argh

I married a man who said "a couple or three" all the time. He also called a takeaway "a takey", the off-licence "the offy" and Kwik Save (his favourite supermarket) "Saveys". With hindsight I should have thrown him back, but none of these is the reason.

I did, however, go right off the pleasant, clean-cut chap I had my eye on in my first year at university when he said "take a dek" instead of "have a look".

He was 2 inches taller than me, I'm just under 5 ft and I could only envisage us looking like the munchkins or the diddy men when together. He was boring as well.

He wore two pairs of underpants at the same time. Not even pants and boxers but two pairs of pants. Couldn't even give a good reason why he did it.

Met a really handsome soldier one night , he snuck me back to the barracks , he was literally gorgeous. When he opens his wardrobe for something he has about 30 cans of tuna lined up in there , ok weird. Then proceeds to open on and eat it out of the tin. He stunk and said hold on whilst I run and brush my teeth. I called my friend who was with another handsome soldier and we high tailed it out of there ! Wtf 😳

A guy who said his guilty pleasure was watching naked attraction. Only he also couldn't pronounce his R's, so it was 'naked atwuation'

Speech impediments are a no no for me but it was a double whammy!

Had the same name as my colleague and good friend, who I’ve worked with for 10+ years. Subconsciously avoided saying his name the whole date and then imagined having to say it in bed.

And that was me drier than the Sahara and out of there 👋

30 tins of tuna 😄😄😄😄😄

He couldn't make a decision. And it kept happening. Over very innocuous things like wanting to head out or not, he'd always refer back to me, and it was the most off putting thing ever.

Interesting how many of these, despite being trivial, are somehow signifiers of unmanliness!

Having a full on snog with the most gorgeous lad at a party in the 80s and he kept sort of turning away and having a surreptitious squirt of one of those spray breath fresheners. Neither of us mentioned it.

Another was someone I'd been seeing again in the late 80s and found out he wore bobbly nylon paisley-patterned Y-fronts, couldn't get away fast enough.

"The one who shouted “Wunderbar”! in a German accent when he came."
Brilliant, I love this

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.

I'd have had to get out and walk 😂

Reminds me of another thing my annoying man did. He had the driving seat way too far forward so his knees were sticking up in the air. At the same time he leaned forward out of the seat while he was driving. And instead of resting his left foot when he wasn't using the clutch, he planted his heel on the floor with his toes sticking up. I've never seen anyone else with such a weird, awkward driving posture.

Oh dear..... My DH is like this and it does drive me nuts. Every answer is "could do if you like" or "I don't mind". Even if I ask "but do you actually want to" he keeps saying it. Deeply annoying.

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Makes me think of the comic images at the start of Grange Hill.

Had a few dates with someone and suddenly realised when he smiled he looked like the snake in The Jungle Book.

"Truuuuusst in meeee ..." Er, nope!