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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.

OP posts:
Joash · 10/03/2008 13:10

As I said on another thread - my first 'serious' boyfriend bought me "Begin the beguine" by Julio Iglesias ... so I dumped him on the spot!!

Joash · 10/03/2008 13:14

Then there was the footballer (well known) who took offense when I actually fell off the bed laughing at his cone-shaped (and small) erm ... tackle!!!! PUN INTENDED

FourPlusOne · 10/03/2008 13:34

I slept with someone who had the biggest 'manhood' I have ever seen. It was quite frightening and looked horrible. There were lots of other things that put me off him too, but that is the one that sticks in my mind! It only happened once and I had to avoid him for ages to get rid of him.

donnie · 10/03/2008 13:39

I had a bf years ago and we were going home late on a train one night. A group of nasty looking oiks started beating some poor unsuspecting lone man up and slamming his head against the glass door so I jumped up and intervened, in a fit of indignance. But my BF ( and everyone else on the carriage) just sat there staring at their hands and did fuck all.

STONE DEAD.

JamesAndTheGiantBanana · 10/03/2008 13:41

Fourplusone, I had a guy who put my hand on his crotch in a club whilst we were talking -I didn't know him from adam!- I think it was a well rehearsed move as it was just enormous (felt like a bloody cucumber) and I have to admit I just sortof shrieked in shock and ran away. I quite freely admit I wouldn't have known what the hell to do with it, anyway. What a cocky sod though (pun also intended!)

claireybee · 10/03/2008 13:44

It's not that wierd compared to most of these but the guy who kept calling me poppet-surely that's what you call a small child, not someone you are trying to shag?!

EiWishFor3MoreWishes · 10/03/2008 14:05

haha i thought i was the only freak-magnet around
i went out on a first date with a man who told me he was 21 (i was about 18 or so at the time)and drove a nice new VW golf. he picked me up took me the pics and asked me back to his house for a coffee. i thought why not as it was only early so said yes...he then took me to a big house opened the door and introduced me to his mum as his new girlfriend i was taken aback by that but not as much as the smell of cat pee in the house coupled with the nudey girl posters on his bedroom wall and the dirty undies (eewww) his mum made us a sandwich and brought glasses of coke up to us so i decided to ask his age and he was only 17 had just turned 17 the week before and had been taught to drive by his dad so needed no licence i got a taxi home...
xx ei xx

EiWishFor3MoreWishes · 10/03/2008 14:06

i have loads of these stories btw as i had a hard time trying in my quest to find the one
xx ei xx

GetOrfMoiLand · 10/03/2008 14:13

A purple willy. Seriously. I quite like him until I saw that (was all veiny as well, blee!)

Was invited round for dinner to man's house, had been on a couple of dates. His flat was a fleapit with hand-me down furniture from the 70's (from his mum and gran) and was filthy (this was a wealthy man). He proceeded to order a chinese takeaway; he ordered the cheapest meal for 2 (wasn't offered to choose what I wanted). When it turned up we had to eat it out of the foil containers as he didn't own any plates or bowls, and only had 1 fork and 1 spoon (I got the fork - oh lucky me!)

I didn't even get a cup of tea as his fridge was never plugged in and he didn't have any milk.

This man was 34. Let's just say this was the FINAL date!

My real non-negotiable point, though, is football. Any serious relationshop I have had (not many!) has been with a man who is not at all interested in football, either watching or playing. I couldn't cope with that level of dire conversation in my life. I could be on a date with a Brad Pitt lookalike and if he started wittering about Charlton Athletic and UEFA cup ties he would be out the door!

EiWishFor3MoreWishes · 10/03/2008 14:16

haha GOML one of the finer points of my DH is the lack of sports enthusiasm he does like formula one but it is not a sore point as he falls asleep watching TV so i get the remote i hate being second best to a game so this is definitely somethin i would consider to be a relationship no no
xx ei xx

cutekids · 10/03/2008 14:42

the fella who took my hand in the back of a taxi then proceeded to take his willy out and place it in my palm!

swalesie · 10/03/2008 21:05

When i was 18 i found skidmarks in my boyfriends pants, just couldnt get horney over him after that, twas the beginning of the end.

MsHighwater · 10/03/2008 22:34

Hmm. The incident that should have killed it was his apparent need to explain to me why, on my first visit to his house, he had moist toilet paper in his bathroom.

But, since I was young and very foolish, it actually took until we were sitting at dinner in a hotel in York for the weekend that he (SNP activist) announced in a none-too-quiet voice that "there is something rotten about the English"!!!!

eldestgirl · 10/03/2008 22:46

The one who put on MY bathrobe, danced around my flat with a hard on, with the robe flapping open and who then flashed the flat opposite. Dead as a dodo. Could never get the image out of my head.

ara · 10/03/2008 22:54

mshighwater -pmsl!!

i once tentatively dated a guy who was really keen on me - i liked him but the feeling wasn't mutual and i couldn't put my fingers on what wasn't quite right about him and then one day i noticed he had tiny ears - i mean really tiny. they didn't really extend much beyond the bit that actually fixes onto you head iyswim. it was weird that it took me so long to notice, but once i had he was toast. poor bloke - he was so desperate as a result of my dithering he tried a dry hump on me before i chucked his small-eared arse out of the door in horror.

pruners · 10/03/2008 22:54

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ara · 10/03/2008 22:55

gads i am so shallow - me being so perfect and all

ara · 10/03/2008 22:56

waaaaaaaaahaaa - you've brought a tear to my eye pruners!

Mhamai · 10/03/2008 23:05

Him, "So how about you, me and your mate for a threesome? You know? spread the love?"

Me, So how about you and your friend pamela? you'll be seeing a lot more of her than me from now on........wanker!"

SleepIsForTheWeak · 10/03/2008 23:09

I had been dating this guy for a while and we were invtted away for a friend's (who strangely is now my DH)21st birthday weekend at the beach.
My then bf and I were walking down to the beach oneday when I looked down and noticed that he was wearing flip flops and his 2nd and 3rd toes on both feet were fused together! Just could not get over it. I also am sound very shallow!

threestars · 11/03/2008 10:52

One in the early 90's - he got his hair cut really short, when I'd been attracted to his long hair. (Nobody could believe how shallow I was, apart from me)
One whose bath was stained brown up to the watermark. Didn't even dare look in the loo.
One techno musician (90s again) who made me spend afternoons listening to his music, then to the Aphex Twin and talking about how superior his own music was. snore.
One who 'accidentally' (but quite forcefully) slipped into the wrong entrance during sex.
One who, after I dumped him because he was always drunk,and phoning me at 3am, tearfully arranged to meet me to discuss 'what went wrong' because his therapist had suggested it. I then thought he might be close to suicide so said it was all my fault.
One first date who darted to the loo every 20 minutes and was constantly fidgity. Then fondly recounted how he'd gone through a visitors book in a gallery and contacted them all to tell them what w***s they were, and then told me how great it feels to do heroin. Never date someone you've met at a nightclub.
One who would usually contact me at midnight/2am and insist on me coming over to his flat to join a party with his pals. Found a copy of Cosmopolitan in his bedroom - turned out he already had a girlfriend and I was the standby.
Oh, I could go on, but fear the drag back to the shady past could ruin my head forever.
I promise never to moan about DH again.

skyatnight · 11/03/2008 10:56

GrinGrin

mrsdannydyer · 11/03/2008 11:05

a bf i had just met, who had a photo of his still born child everywhere on the tv, on the walls, when i went to his place for the 1st time, he showed me his photo album of the still born baby.

it was his and his ex gf's baby of course. but this was pre kids so it totally freaked me out, seeing photos of this poor dead baby everywhere, but now as a mother myself i can totally totally understand it, and feel a bit bad that i thought he was so weird.

Booboobedoo · 11/03/2008 12:22

A recent divorcee I slept with at University, who kept whispering 'no falling in love' into my ear while we were having sex.

I obeyed him, obviously.

Avoided him after that, but he kept leaving apples on my front door-step.

MarmiteMe · 11/03/2008 12:39

The guy who when it came to the er "end" moment of our first (and only) shag did a countdown.

The guy at uni who walked into the bar one night with a V neck jumper with nothing under it and his hairy chest on show

The guy who on our second date invited me to his sister's wedding three months later and started going on about how much his Mum wanted to meet his new gf (me apparently)

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