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What one weird thing has killed a relationship stone dead in an instant for you?

550 replies

talkingmongoose · 08/03/2008 22:11

Just something that told you there was nooooo future?

I was seeing a chap quite some years ago, pre DH. We had been dating about a year, and were getting into bed at his place when I mentioned that I had my period, just in a casual 'so no rumpy-pumpy tonight' kind of way. The issue had never come up before.

He went all pale with disgust, said 'I wish you hadn't told me that', and proceeded to sleep on the floor.

Utter, utter twunt, I never returned his calls after that. Lucky escape.

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DrNortherner · 08/03/2008 22:47

Is it really a comon complaint?

Not something you want to tell a girl on a first date though surley?

Washersaurus · 08/03/2008 22:49

You'd think not DrN, but my brother was always very proud of his (freak)

He used to bite my chocolate bars and leave the 4 front teeth marks in them

Lizzer · 08/03/2008 22:50

Him (after being on the phone to his ex gf for 30 mins while on a date with me) "I'm really good friends with [insert ex girlfriend's name] but I'm not in love with her anymore so don't worry....I do love her though, we'll always be in each other's lives"

Good sex though, heartbroken desperate men are usually good shags for some reason, probably need to prove something to themselves so really make the effort

janestillhere · 08/03/2008 22:54

I once went out with someone who used to wake me in the early hours 'just to chat'.
FFS I used to think - are you for real?
Feck oorrrrffff 'an let me ssllleeeeep.

banality · 08/03/2008 22:56

Walking in on him dressed like this

Mumcentreplus · 08/03/2008 23:02

lol@Rainbow love...some men don't mind

Blueskythinker · 08/03/2008 23:35

An old BF told me he had gone on holiday to Australia for 6 weeks, and brought 6 weeks worth of clothes so he didn't need to do any washing there.

Eeeew. Imagine the smell in his bag. Did he think they don't have washing machines there?

JamesAndTheGiantBanana · 08/03/2008 23:37

I met a guy who lied about his age until after we'd slept together, he said he was 19 turned out he was 17 (I was 23)- he was gorgeous and worshipped me so I decided to live with the fact that he was quite a bit younger than me...

...until he casually told me his ex who he had been seeing a few weeks before me was 14. ew, ew, ewww!

Blueskythinker · 08/03/2008 23:37

But the final straw was when we had gone for a weekend to a caravan, and he did a hideously smelly poo in the toilet. That's what toilet blocks are for. [gross]

IVCaffeine · 08/03/2008 23:40

I dated a guy who showed up at my flat on week 2 with a bag of laundry and bag of raw veg, dumped them both on the kitchen floor, said "wash it, cook it" and walked into the lounge and turned the tv on-WHAT! Good sex though, hm .......

JamesAndTheGiantBanana · 08/03/2008 23:41

My current dp just told me his: The day he walked in from work and found his (now ex) gf sitting watching TV eating a mixing bowl full of buttercream icing off her finger. He asked her if she was baking a cake, she said "nope"

He said he just couldn't look at her the same way.

KerryMum · 08/03/2008 23:42

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expatinscotland · 08/03/2008 23:43

'I'm good friends with all my ex's'.

expatinscotland · 08/03/2008 23:43

'All my friends are women.'

Mumcentreplus · 08/03/2008 23:45

lol@expat...(shouldn't she be in bed resting her bump?)

JamesAndTheGiantBanana · 08/03/2008 23:45

Kerrymum, I should have realised when I asked him to tell me about his parents, and he said "They're dumb, I hate them and stuff"

Scramble · 08/03/2008 23:46

I got "Sorry I can't make it I am working late"

Sorry mate thats what I have been hearing for the past 10 years+ from exH, so not a good for a first night out is it.

BoysOnToast · 08/03/2008 23:47

i was seeing a boy of about 16 when i was also about that age. i went ot his house before we went out clubbing one night.
his jeans werent ironed so he went downstairs and got his mum to do it. she was just sitting down with her dinner after having fed her man and 2 children, each different things as they wanted diff things...
she put her dinner down again (on tray in fron tof telly) and got up to iron the jeans. then and there.
was so shocked i nearly fell over.
anyone broguht up with such expectations was never going to be right for me.

MrsMacaroon · 09/03/2008 00:06

In the midst of a pretty rubbish shag (our first and last), this guy suddenly started to 'whisk' me (ahem in the nether regions), IYKWIM...I was too polite to say anything and he persisted with this for a considerable time, then began making dolphin noises. He was a really nice, attractive guy but I couldn't bring myself to overlook his bizarre 'techniques'.

Rachmumoftwo · 09/03/2008 00:11

Shrieking like a little girl right in my ear at Alton towers- it wasn't even a scary ride! He had to go.

Scramble · 09/03/2008 00:11

"whisk" you, UI dread to think [oooh]

Just realised that these are supposed to be weird things, and mine was as common as they come.

Ok weirder one, I went out with a guy that had a hbit of pointing at things like on a low shop shelves with his feet, I hated the way he did it, when he did use his hands he pointed with his middle finger and it just made me cringe everytime. I have a freind that does this and I am diingt to tell her not to, but I won't.

marmadukescarlet · 09/03/2008 00:15

with a whisk?

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talkingmongoose · 09/03/2008 00:16

Dolphin noises!

that deserves a thread of it's own!

Ah well, at least the relationship served a porpoise...

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Scramble · 09/03/2008 00:18

LOL I want to know more but at the same time I really don't .

S1ur · 09/03/2008 00:21

bad sex.

Dead as a dodo.