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.

Also that’s a lot of knocking over for a single date.

Funny looking thumbs like they had been stamped on.

My DH too. I can never pin him down to a bloody decision, eventually I give in and decide for us both or we'd be faffing about forever. Then he says he doesn't want to go there/eat that/whatever, he wants to do/eat x instead. FFS - why not say so in the first place then?

Oh that’s hideous. Nothing worse than penny pinching on a date. Once as a teen I was on a first date to the movies and realised I had left my purse somewhere. Freaked out ( hardly had any money at that age and it was all in there) and he said calmly, coldly and presumptuously :” well never mind: it’s my shout. You can pay next time.” Which next time??? Zero concern about the loss of it. And that, dear readers, was that.

Fucking class 🤣

The first night I stayed over, he tucked me into bed.

Like you might do with a small child on a cold night. Literally edged the duvet in under me from my toes my neck and declared "I don't want you getting cold and leaving".

It was Summer time but weird as fuck at any time.

I fancied him rotten until that moment.

A date with a muso that turned into a sexual encounter. He said: "Go down on me woman."

This really was told to me by a friend though had it happened to me, I would also not have wanted a second date. I think she burst out laughing.

Itchy Mary 🤢

He insisted on paying for the coffees on our first date....produced a tray purse, opened the flap , shook the coins and shuffled through them picking out the exact amount. That was the cringiest few minutes of my life! No second date.

Would you mind linking to them please? This one is hilarious and I'd nominate it for classics so looking forward to seeing the others 😂

An English ex way back in the 80's thought it was cute to call me his wifey. A born and bred Fifer, to me a wifey was an old woman and not cute in the slightest. I binned him very quickly.

Many are missing the point here and putting perfectly valid reasons for chucking someone in the bin. 😂

Keep the utterly and absurdly unfair reasons coming!

Was that all the same guy? Or have you just had lightning strike many times over?

Pointing Percy.....this has just made me shiver. Ugh, ugh.....instant turnoff!

Would your name have been something like Stacey Tracy?

😵did you go? Or end it there and then?

He said ‘was’ instead of ‘were’. Lasted one date.

I just remembered a dumpee who fits the “totally fair to dump him” criteria:

He licked the inside of a Creme egg and made eye contact with me.

In the bin with thee! 🤢

Oh that set my teeth on edge just envisaging it.

He hyphenated thank you. Made it 'thank-you'. I couldn't cope.
And he shovelled raspberries in his mouth by the dozen.

Clacky shoes. So long, Lord of the Dance.

Sharon! I'm assuming this is many different men, not one repulsive nightmare all wrapped up together?

An ex would say "Oh dearie me' in a high pitched Scottish accent from time to time. And he bought me one of those horrendous photographic old fashioned tinted birthday cards of a little boy and girl all dressed up in frills and said it reminded him of us. Bleurghhh. Annoyingly I dated him til he dumped me.

He’d set the table for Sunday dinner, called me into the dining room where the table cloth, place mats, cutlery had all been messed up. He asked if I had done it, questioning me further when I pointed out a table mat had been chewed and suggested it was the dog. Apparently his dog would never do such a thing.
Ate my roast chicken and never saw him again.

😂😂 Koh-e-Noor diamond.

I think my Aunty had one of those (porcelain figurines not diamonds) called Caroline.