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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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thenightsky · 28/05/2014 17:57

I noticed his dirty fingernails within 5 mins of start of first date. Couldn't take my eyes off them all night. All I could think was 'there's no way them fingers are going down my undercrackers'. I feigned sickness after an hour and called a taxi to take me home.

longtallsally2 · 28/05/2014 17:59

Grin at 'nym' - absolutely understandable.

Probably not trivial at all but I dated someone (chastely, but enthusiastically) one year in spring, and vividly remember seeing him come out of his house in summer in total horror, as he was wearing shorts and his legs/knees were just tiny compared to the rest of his body. They were so white too - they had clearly never seen sunlight before. I can't remember whether I actually got out of the car to finish with him, or drove for the hills, but I do remember those legs, very very vividly . Shame. The rest of him was really nice Blush

thenightsky · 28/05/2014 17:59

CabbagesandKings Did you have a thread on here about your vampire? I seem to remember one a good few years ago where the OP had a boyfriend who wouldn't go out in daylight.

NotADaffodil · 28/05/2014 18:00

His name was Dirk, I couldn't say it without sniggering

YouTheCat · 28/05/2014 18:01

Was his surname 'Diggler', Notadaffodil? Grin

I remember that thread. The one about the bloke who used to dress in black and talk about cannibalism?

Itsfab · 28/05/2014 18:02

I can't think of anything Sad. I really wanted to join in as well.

fluffyraggies · 28/05/2014 18:02

He smelt of baked beans.

fluffyraggies · 28/05/2014 18:02

smelt?

smelled.

ADishBestEatenCold · 28/05/2014 18:03

Dreadful dancer, which by itself would have probably got him dumped, but ... worse ... he thought he was great and as he gyrated away on the dance floor with his arms and legs all shooting out in different directions, he would periodically flash medallion-man smiles at people, while pointing at them with both index fingers and rolling his eyes.

We had two or three really nice dates before dancing, but I'm afraid the relationship didn't make it past that evening.

scarffiend · 28/05/2014 18:04

Incorrect usage of their, they're, there, and various others during text conversations. When he sent dirty ones badly spelt, it was over for me.

exWifebeginsat40 · 28/05/2014 18:04

he shaved his beard off on Christmas Eve. i refused to look at him all through Christmas Day and finished with him on Boxing Day.

ThatBloodyWoman · 28/05/2014 18:04

Make one up Its. Smile

theDudesmummy · 28/05/2014 18:05

He had a beard.
Strange that I later ended up marrying a man with a beard....

NotADaffodil · 28/05/2014 18:07

Was his surname 'Diggler', Notadaffodil?

Youthecat Haha no but it was pretty bad, when I met him I thought he was joking about his name and burst out laughing, was a bit Blush when he showed me his credit card to prove it

NotADaffodil · 28/05/2014 18:08

Scarfiend there is nothing worse than badly spelt dirty texts, complete turn off!

bumbumsmummy · 28/05/2014 18:08

Big white hitec trainers with a huge tongue on them n skinny light denim jeans he thought he was Brian May wouldn't have minded so much but it was the nineties

NotADaffodil · 28/05/2014 18:09

*scarffiend

SteadyEddie · 28/05/2014 18:09

He invited me over to look at his bike and actually showed me his bike in exact, mind numbingly boring detail.

I thought it was code for 'wanna shag'

honeybeeridiculous · 28/05/2014 18:12

He wore a jumper his mum had knitted, and he wore it alot

His lips were like sandpaper

And a different relationship ended because his mother hated me and thought I was a bad influence, he wanted to continue seeing me but tell his mum he'd dumped me. I got there first and dumped him Grin

ClashCityRocker · 28/05/2014 18:13

He said he was going out to buy my christmas present. I was skint and couldn't afford one for him, so dumped him to avoid buying one.

Tbf, we were only going out two weeks and were about 15.

Itsfab · 28/05/2014 18:15

Got one!!! I didn't like his hair Hmm.

Mind you I was still in love with my exSad.

Kittymautz · 28/05/2014 18:17

I "met" a guy on Internet dating many years ago, we exchanged messages and he seemed nice, and looked good in his photo.

When we met it immediately became obvious why he was wearing dark glasses in his profile photo - he had really weird eyes. I decided to not be too shallow and give him a chance, but when he suggested going for a pizza, and I then suggested Pizza Express, he refused and took me to a really crap Pizza Hut. Final straw.

fluffyraggies · 28/05/2014 18:18

Oh - and another one who, on our first proper date, took me to his house, sat me down, and talked me through FOUR photo albums of photos of himself. And i mean just him.

''This is me in the cadets. This is me with my bike. This is me with the new car. This is me in Wales. This is me in my new leather jacket. This is me, this is me, this is me ..... '' and so on. For 3 hours Hmm It was our first and last date.

His name was Steve. He was deeply in love with himself.

Tryharder · 28/05/2014 18:22

He said his favourite all time song was 'Come On Eileen' and he always had to get up and dance when it was played.

I ran like the wind Grin

Grumpyrealist77 · 28/05/2014 18:24

For attacking me with her handbag in a car park in front of all my stunned friends!
No risk of hurting me, but I couldn't get over the fact that a girl I was with lost control like that, let alone in front of my friends!!??
It felt quite obvious it was over, but she couldn't understand why it was such a big deal...
So not a trivial dumping in my book but definitely was according to her!