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to ask what is the most trivial reason you have ended a relationship

672 replies

BauerTime · 28/05/2014 17:05

Mine is for referring to the 69 position as 'summer of 69ing' and condoms ss 'rubber johnnies'.

It just made my skin crawl and there was no coming back from that!

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CrystalSkulls · 29/05/2014 20:14

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LackaDAISYcal · 29/05/2014 20:16

he was too tall.

I am 5'2" and he was 6'2". I was young and stupid and thought people would be laughing at us. He was a lovely lovely bloke. I often wonder what he's up to these days (though I did catch a glimpse of him on some science programme; he was one of the white coats putting drops ina test tube in the background!)

expatinscotland · 29/05/2014 20:23

He was white Irish-American. He told me his fondest wish, if he had one wish in the entire world, it would be that he were Chinese.

He also took me to his house to watch a film, which had several steamy sex scenes, which his parents there.

aylesburyduck · 29/05/2014 20:27

Classics classics!!

This is brilliant, my face hurts from laughing

CruCru · 29/05/2014 20:35

He would wear an enormous woolly jumper to a club with no T shirt on underneath so would get sweaty, ewwwww.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 29/05/2014 20:43

he was a tory - he only asked me out because he fancied my legs in a tennis skirt at some sort of fancy dress party in my first term at Uni We went out for lunch and had nothing to talk about.

< muses, possibly not trivial - rather fundamental really >

Love the problematic fluorescent jacket in case of emergencies, and the dumping of said man on these grounds Grin

balloondoggy · 29/05/2014 20:46

He had a strong Hull accent and I could stand the way he said my name.

TheIncredibleBookEatingManchot · 29/05/2014 20:46

His middle name was Christopher. I don't like the letter C.

Mypyjamasarebaggy · 29/05/2014 20:54

Refused to return one of my favourite earrings that fell off during a bout of really dull heavy petting.

Bought me a cow shaped mug as a Valentines day present - why?

Had awful hobbit feet

costababe · 29/05/2014 20:56

This is hilariousGrin

  1. used to cry every time we DTD
  2. was great in bed, but good was he boring
  3. fab in the sack but bloody ugly, I know how shallow, I was very young!
FreeWee · 29/05/2014 21:00

Because he left a message on my answer phone and pronounced my name in an irritating way. He had the local accent of where I live so it was completely unreasonable.

Dogsmom · 29/05/2014 21:10

He was the barman at the local pub, I asked him out and it turned out he still lived with his parents and didn't drive, I picked him up at 2pm to go for lunch and he walked downstairs wearing a suit.

cees · 29/05/2014 21:10

Went down on me and stayed there........................for ages, got to the point I thought maybe he got my face and vagina mixed up. The day after he followed me round the house all touchy feely, all I could smell was sex off his mouth when he tried to kiss me.

First and last time with him, but we continued to house share, that was a tad awkward.

Ledkr · 29/05/2014 21:22

I've been directed to post this.

Ok so I was seeing this absolutely gorgeous guy with a body of iron and waist length dreadlocks.
He was stylish and cool and I adored him.

He stayed at my house one weekend and we had a lovely time, I was in love.

Then one morning he was about to have a shower and pulled out an ASDA CARRIER BAG and out it in his dreadlocks Hmm I instantly went off him and couldn't get him out of my house quick enough!!

Bless him, he was very keen as well.

PoppetOne · 29/05/2014 21:25

#1 - too short, I could rest my elbow on his shoulder.

#2 - cone-shaped penis.

#3 - really loved the taste of his own come, no, really, really, really loved it, went on about it all the time.

#4 - about 15 years age difference which wasn't a problem until I realised my mum had served his school meals

Topaz25 · 29/05/2014 21:29

This thread made me realise I have never dumped someone over superficial issues. I tend to cling on until the bitter end even when there are actual issues, not really a good thing!

Lweji · 29/05/2014 21:31

until I realised my mum had served his school meals
Why was that a problem? Surely your mum served you meals as well? :)

expatinscotland · 29/05/2014 21:37

In addition to micro-penis, there is needle dick.

Another reason to dump.

hoboken · 29/05/2014 21:39

Fit-looking guy but with a high pitched voice so I assumed he would be small in the dick department and turned him down

His accent and the way he pronounced my name irritated me hugely

He had a surname with 'cock' in it (sorry to any MNers who have the same)

He was a bumptious misogynist and shorter than me

He pronounced secretary as secatary

I so love being without a man in my life

PoppetOne · 29/05/2014 21:40

My mum didnt serve my school meals, she worked at a different school. She used to go on about 2 cheeky lads at school and say stuff like 'oooh, they're lovely', it totally put me off when I realised he was one of the lads...

QOD · 29/05/2014 21:42

Same height as me .... Shallow!

ThaneOfScunthorpe · 29/05/2014 21:47

Best thread EVER.

One more from me: a lovely (I thought) Venezuelan man I worked with took me home. He'd told me he lived with his doctor and his doctor's mother. Seems strange, I thought. But I was so hot for him I didn't give it another thought.

...until we got to his place and I realised he'd been saying DAUGHTER. Not DOCTOR.

Not a trivial reason at all, now I come to think of it!

Lweji · 29/05/2014 22:03

Topaz, I let the little things go with exH.

I am now prepared to dump at the first trivial thing. Or at least because of mounting trivial things, before the bad stuff makes an appearance.

The last guy it was mostly a collection of "trivialities" in addition to the tongue sticking out,

  • he said that he wished his back was as smooth as mine
  • we were perfume incompatible (he liked strong oriental smells, I like discreet scents)
  • when I developed a bra obsession he managed to over do it (I was fine once I got the right bras), but then ordered the wrong size (one cup size too small) and the wrong pants (thongs, grr) and wanted to go to the bra shop with me in my first visit. I don't think so.
  • kept giving DS expensive beyblades until I had to forcefully tell him to stop
  • told DS to never mind mum when I was disciplining him (not that trivial...)
  • he didn't actually read books, although I got the impression initially that he did
  • we would end up watching crap films on SciFi supposedly because it was ironic (or not...)
  • he lived in the same building as his parents and his mother still ironed for him
  • he once told me he now had someone else to iron for him. He got a huge laugh back.
  • it came across how much he disliked most people at work.
  • he'd just say the first stupid thing that came to his head, whereas I am usually very precise or will just say I don't know or I'm not sure
  • he suggested I should wear my hair in a different way
  • his flat didn't have a lift
  • after I got up 4 flights of stairs, and got through the door, he didn't really acknowledge me and kept cooking
  • he sat on a display at an airplane museum (and not the type you are supposed to interact with)
  • he said that he would go silent on people when he was upset with them (well, that's more a red flag, even if it sounded tiny)
  • he went limp with condoms
  • he went limp when trying intercourse
  • he went limp very easily - then told me it wasn't me - the thought hadn't crossed my mind Hmm
  • he didn't go to the gp to deal with his erectile dysfunction
  • he blamed it on us not having enough intimate time, after quite a few tries
  • he sighed about things rather than talking about issues like an adult

I should have dumped exH:

  • when he parked near Regent's Park and didn't pay the parking (he got a ticked, the dumb ass)
  • he wore sort of cowboy boots
  • he wore a basketball vest to go out with me in the evening in central London
  • the stupid car he bought
  • he didn't finish secondary school
  • when he asked me if I would go out with him if he wasn't handsome
  • when I said he wasn't that handsome anyway (he deserved it for being so cocky) and he had a strop
Simplesusan · 29/05/2014 22:15

I met a guy online didn't see him again after he started planning our next date within the first 30 minutes of meeting him. Then then began to explain that he had booked a holiday but would only see it through because it was already booked and paid for.
Whilst I was deciding that he wasn't my type anyway he proceeded to tell me he only had one testicle and had a gymp mask that he would be getting out and using on me!

I downed my drink and made my excuses .

CruCru · 29/05/2014 22:16

My ex didn't read (none of his family did, his mum used to say she didn't have the time while watching some shit on telly. If I was reading, he would look at me and clear his throat. When that didn't work he would say "Good...book?".

"Yes thanks"
"What's it about?"
"Why don't you read it after me?"
"No, I won't get round to it".

His mum also once described someone as a nigger. They were educated, I was quite shocked.