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You meet the one. They're perfect for you. Then youve got the ick so badly you eant to set fire to yourself. What petty thing did they do?? 👀

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mumofoneAloneandwell · 14/06/2026 16:58

Vomit Puke GIF by The Late Late Show with James Corden

Eaten tuna 🤢

Monstrous food eaten by those with poor morals.

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MagpiePi · 16/06/2026 10:06

Wore a fake leather bomber jacket and took me to a bog standard Italian restaurant which he clearly thought was some upmarket exclusive michelin starred bistro.

I should have left it as a one date wonder, but ended up buying a house with him. WTF was I thinking?

Sardaukar · 16/06/2026 10:09

I'm a man, but this is one I'd imagine would give women the ick, and it's men who cry and bubble. I think if I were a woman, that would seriously make me run a mile. Man up, ffs...

Ladygodalmighty · 16/06/2026 10:09

ERthree · 14/06/2026 20:43

I wonder if he had a photo of his mummy on his Prom night posing beside him in a colour coordinated dress?

😂🤣😂👌

Ladygodalmighty · 16/06/2026 10:31

DaisyDooley · 14/06/2026 23:09

I just wanted you to know that I wanted to like your comment 1000 times.
I married a feathery stroker.
I haven’t had sex in 11 yrs.

Oh you poor thing! It's time to give him "The bird" and take flight!

frumpfrau · 16/06/2026 10:34

Absolutely loving this thread 😂 Here’s mine:

Ex-girlfriend, tiny little car. We arrived at a house with a gravel driveway so vast you could comfortably park an aircraft carrier or host a country fete on it.

For reasons known only to herself, she became absolutely fixated on parking the car perfectly straight. To reiterate - we were on an empty expanse of gravel. There was literally nothing to line the car up with.

Fifteen minutes of increasingly elaborate manoeuvres followed, accompanied by much anguish and shouty swearing.

Eventually, I very gently asked, “would you like me to do it?”

This was apparently the wrong thing to say. I was treated to a reaction normally reserved for finding out your spouse has been living a double life. So I got out, went inside, and left her to it (she was out there for so long I was concerned I’d die of old age).

Just one ick in a long series of icks. Needless to say, we didn’t last long!

oliviaAustin · 16/06/2026 10:50

Aberdyfi · 14/06/2026 18:02

Not veiny but also the smoothest skin, like you would want your own feet to be. Not the feet of a 6ft 5 fella.

My husbands feet are smooth like silk too. I quite like it.

Ladygodalmighty · 16/06/2026 10:59

CocoaTea · 15/06/2026 07:17

Asparagus cup of soup is green. Have you seen it?

She didn’t say it was the “normal male bodily function” that was the issue.

Green ejaculate would indicate illness to me. Hence the ick.

I feel like you are being contrary just for the sake of it.

Could "Shuggles" be offended/defensive because he also has asparagus jizz?

oliviaAustin · 16/06/2026 11:13

Sardaukar · 16/06/2026 10:09

I'm a man, but this is one I'd imagine would give women the ick, and it's men who cry and bubble. I think if I were a woman, that would seriously make me run a mile. Man up, ffs...

Depends on the scenario. It’s Ok to cry… especially if you’ve been bereaved or a pet is sick or you’re worried about losing your house or something. Less ok if it’s because of something that’s no big deal.

oliviaAustin · 16/06/2026 11:26

EmailsaysOOO · 16/06/2026 05:15

I think men's feet are often in better condition than women's somehow, but I do get how it could have had that effect on you..

It’s not somehow - it’s hormones and biomechanics. Women have different foot shapes, hip position and gait from men as well as changes due to pregnancy and in ligament flexibility.

SingtotheCat · 16/06/2026 11:34

ilovepixie · 14/06/2026 23:04

Loved quiche

This made me laugh. DH loves a quiche and I make it for him!

EmailsaysOOO · 16/06/2026 11:37

@oliviaAustinmany thanks , then in that case maybe we should try and factor that in when we, ( in my case jealously) compare ( my) dry old feet with my partner's soft and creamy tootsies. It's not that he's never done a day's serious work in his life, it's biology

TaterTots68 · 16/06/2026 11:42

Licked too damn hard when performing oral. I'm pretty sensitive there and every time he flicked my bits with his tongue, I winced and he thought I was thrashing in passion. I was too embarrassed to tell him I couldn't stand it. Especially as he made out he was an expert cunnilinguist

Katiesaidthat · 16/06/2026 11:50

Hoppinggreen · 14/06/2026 20:10

When DS17 got his 1st Girlfriend DH unthinkingly said she reminded him of DD
He dumped her not long after, said he just couldn't unsee it

My aunt told me my then boyfriend (early 20s) reminded her of my father (my father had darker hair and brown eyes, my boyfriend had grey eyes). But yes, it was the demeanor and his voice and the way he said things sometimes. Once you see it...

Ladygodalmighty · 16/06/2026 12:15

Been seeing this guy for a couple of months and things were looking promising. We came back to mine after a nice night out and he immediately went to the toilet. Twenty minutes later I tapped on the door to check if he was OK. Turns out he had shit his pants and was rinsing them out in my wash hand basin 🤢 I put his clothes in the washer as he obviously intended staying the night. The thing is, he lived in the next street and could have quite easily have gone home! Said he had IBS! He obviously had no dignity! I lost all respect 😵‍💫

KTMeetsTheRsUptown · 16/06/2026 12:52

Strawberry57 · 14/06/2026 22:20

Did that thing people do when eating ice cream, they eat half of the spoon full then take the spoon out with sucked ice cream on (am I explaining this?), then he kind of looked at the spoon. It was dreadful.

He was probably trying to be seductive 🤣

fatphalange · 16/06/2026 13:19

When he was standing at the bar waiting to be served and his feet were planted on the ground really, really far apart.

Laughingravy · 16/06/2026 13:23

Maybe not The One but got on very well with a work colleague, enough flirting to have others suggest we 'get a room' sort of banter. Until one lunchtime while a bunch of us were chatting about weekend plans and curry got mentioned they admitted that if anyone else had touched a naan bread they couldn't have any as it gave them the ick. 'Even the person you'd might be DTD with later' I asked? Yep apparently so. It was a foible too far for me.

Sardaukar · 16/06/2026 13:25

I met a girl for a first date in a pub one midweek. She was quite nice looking and good to get along with, and she asked me back to her place midway through our first drink. I though 'wahaayyy, here we go...'. Well, there was a bit of that, but she then pulled out a large biscuit tin from under her coffee table which was full of tobacco, cigarette papers and 'grass'... Thats not really my scene at all, so it put me right off. I then noticed the clock was really far in front, and she said all the clocks in her house were at different times because she was 'funny' that way. I was soon in a taxi home... I can't be doing with batty women like that...

pinkyredrose · 16/06/2026 13:28

Sardaukar · 16/06/2026 13:25

I met a girl for a first date in a pub one midweek. She was quite nice looking and good to get along with, and she asked me back to her place midway through our first drink. I though 'wahaayyy, here we go...'. Well, there was a bit of that, but she then pulled out a large biscuit tin from under her coffee table which was full of tobacco, cigarette papers and 'grass'... Thats not really my scene at all, so it put me right off. I then noticed the clock was really far in front, and she said all the clocks in her house were at different times because she was 'funny' that way. I was soon in a taxi home... I can't be doing with batty women like that...

She sounds awesome, I'd date her!

Sardaukar · 16/06/2026 13:49

pinkyredrose · 16/06/2026 13:28

She sounds awesome, I'd date her!

I don't think she did women...

SomeGarlic · 16/06/2026 14:03

These are so funny 😂 Thank you, everyone!

Not only are they reminding me why I chose celibacy 20 years ago and have no intention of putting myself through men's nonsense ever again, I keep remembering all the fuckwits, weirdos and plain old sad cases I wasted time on before giving up.

The thing is, most of them did marry and have kids! There are a lot of very, very low bars out there ...

SomeGarlic · 16/06/2026 14:24

Stanley. I should have led with Stanley. He was adamant I couldn't call him Stan, but I told myself to get over being shallow about his name.

The first time we had sex, he hopped out of bed and danced around the room with my knickers on his head. I squashed his painfully evident happiness by telling him if he ever did that again, no more sex.

It turned out he only DTD in one position. It was okay, but I couldn't get him to try anything else.

Final date (we didn't date for long), he'd asked to see a creative project I was working on. He was so interested, I broke my rule and showed him the unfinished work. He immediately launched into a detailed critique, telling me all the ways I should do it differently. I grabbed it back and left the restaurant, advising the waitress that Stanley was paying.

One woman had already divorced him, but he found another. What on earth was she thinking?!

wishingstaar12 · 16/06/2026 14:35

Trauma dumping. I am the most empathetic person in the world but man, self pity is such a turn off. Add to that if i shared anything it was instantly dismissed and the conversation turned back to him. Bye.

momtoboys · 16/06/2026 14:40

LouH1981 · 15/06/2026 18:52

Back in the 90’s. I was 17. Fancied this lad for AGES then we eventually got together.
Very attentive (little bit too clingy but overlooked it) then we met up one Friday night and he was wearing the most horrendous pair of brown shoes.
That was it. Game over.

So, that same night, rather than confess the shoe ick, because he was off to uni soon I told him I wasn’t prepared to have a long distance relationship. Then he began to cry. A lot. Then his older brother started to plead with me not to break up with him.
Very messy, very icky and all over a pair of shoes.
Not proud of myself at all.

This reminded me that a boyfriend in uni showed up in the most ridiculous boots. Just hideous. I wanted to break up with him because of the ick but instead I threw away just one of them so he would think he lost one when he was pissed. He looked for that boot for days!😂

Skyflier · 16/06/2026 14:44

All these stories are wonderful. Makes me realise my DH isn’t so bad after all 😂😂

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