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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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fluffyanimal · 11/03/2008 12:40

My first boyfriend (I was 15 and he was 16) was from a farming family and was going to be a farmer himself. That's no problem, but he took to sending me pages from tractor catalogues with his letters. Then on my birthday he bought me a packet of Bachelors Savoury Rice.

I hope he learned how to romance the ladies because he was a sweet boy.

poshwellies · 11/03/2008 12:44

at shag countdown...hahaha

fluffyanimal · 11/03/2008 12:45

I was once in the position where two boys from the same school wanted to invite me to their formal dance. The first one asked me and I said I'd think about it, and soon after, the other guy, who I preferred, asked me. I felt duty bound to go with the one who asked me first, and told the other guy this - he was really gutted. But then I met up with the first guy and he arrived in the bar dressed in a suit with his hair all plastered down with gel, and proceeded to drink a pint in one and then belch thunderously before coming up to talk to me. I ran like the clappers after the other guy and told him I'd changed my mind!

GetOrfMoiLand · 11/03/2008 12:46

lolol bachelors savoury rice!

contentiouscat · 11/03/2008 12:54

I was seeing someone and not really sure about him but giving him the benefit of the doubt because I was trying a different "type" i.e loved jack the lad funny guys but it never worked out so thought I would try more sensible nice type.

Anyway it was 3 things firstly he told me he had a friend who referred to women as "girly no knobs" which he thought was really funny

Then he addmitted he had been to the PROMS and had also gone to see ready steady cook being filmed.

He just had to go im afraid, I was always hideously fickle anyway LOL

fluffyanimal · 11/03/2008 12:56

Gosh, I'd have loved to date someone who went to the Proms - and to have gone with them! I'd happily tolerate girly no knobs and Ready Steady Cook for that.

solo · 11/03/2008 13:43

I had a date with a guy once. I ended up paying...1st mistake. When he brought me back home, he asked if he could have a coffee, I said he could, but only a coffee. No problem he said...I left him in the front lounge and went to make the coffee...when I returned to the said lounge, he was stood there starkers with a bloody great hard on...says me 'I don't know what you think is going to happen, but whatever it is, it isn't going to happen'.
DEAD as a dodo.

ScubaDuba · 11/03/2008 13:53

The guy who, having bought us a round of drinks on our first date, promptly started vomiting and ran for the toilet!! He came back as though nothing was wrong - he had to go.

The guy who announced with pleasure during a lift home, 'I'll be able to take the de-icer out of my car soon'.

spudcounter · 11/03/2008 13:55

what, like the guy who bought me a 'sexy' (his words, not mine) present..turned out to be a rubber dress which he persuaded me (yes I know, I know..but I was only 20)to put it on for a hot night of sex. Half a bottle of talc (twas a size too small) and an hour later, there's me on the bed trying to put on a sexy 'come hither' look while attempting to breathe normally. He loved it, I didn't. Took me even longer to peel off. Next day, I stuck it in a plastic bag and surreptitiously left it on the doorstep of the charity shop (well, someone might have wanted it.... Actually it took until he insisted on wearing a pair of my tights to a burger bar before I fell out of love with him.

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 11/03/2008 14:07

I don't have one but it oddly reminded me of the gun rack scene in Waynes World. Oh that was a clasic film s a teenager.

StarlightMcKenzie · 11/03/2008 17:03

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CHOCOLATEPEANUT · 11/03/2008 20:18

"Im a virgin and I have been waiting for the right girl"

Byyyyeeeee

Justaskin · 11/03/2008 20:37

Oh - so many of these!!!!

  1. The one who came in his pants within seconds of snogging!

  2. The one who had a tongue with a slit down the middle like a lizard! I had no idea until we kissed and I freeked out a bit!

  3. The one who rang me last minute on a Saturday night and begged me to join him and his friends for dinner because he hadn't realised that all his mates were taking their girlfriends. As I had already eaten I just ordered a starter and shared a bottle of crap fizzy wine with one of the other girls. When the bill came his mates took the piss out of him about paying for me (he had a reputation for being stingy) and he announced to the group 'she earns plenty of money - she can bloody well pay for herself' - so I said I was just nipping to the toilet - and promptly fucked off and went to meet up with some friends in a nearby bar and left him looking like a twat!!

  4. Oh and the one who kept saying 'when I get a wife I'm obviously going to sack my housekeeper - because my wife can do all of that stuff! (he lived in a mahoosive house)

  5. Oh and the one who I took on a night out with friends and he pissed in the street in front of everyone.

mummyoffrankie · 11/03/2008 20:39

lol at booboobedoo and the 'no falling in love' whisperer !

i had just flown home from a college trip to spain and found boyfriend of only a few weeks waiting unexpectedly at the airport.

he was wearing a navy blue blazer borrowed from his 50 something dad ( he was 20), and carrying a bunch of cheap carnations.

to my horror he produced a ring and got down on one knee in front of whole class of college friends and sang that awful ' and i swear, by the moon and the stars and the sky ' song (boyz 2 men or some such tosh )

tried to dump him when got home but he hid my shoes so i couldnt leave.

micegg · 11/03/2008 20:55

"hid my shoes"

PussinJimmyChoos · 11/03/2008 20:56

A bloke I fancied at Uni...plucked up the courage to tell him one evening when popped into his hall of residence....had quite a nice snog and then realised he was wearing a dressing gown with a stationery motif...paper clips and such.....

Told him right away that it wouldn't work....

uberalice · 11/03/2008 21:00

I once refused to go out with a guy who wrote his name on all his pencils. He was in his forties!

BitLessTiredNow · 11/03/2008 21:04

loving this - I have 2 really bad ones - first was wehn I was 19 and copped off with a gorgeous bloke who had NO idea how to kiss and kept licking my mouth and slobbering all over me - literally. Second was a v good looking falconer that I chased for ages - first date he showed me his kestral and then laughed as he popped the head of a day old chick so that the brains went all across the garden and then fed the kestral with it........ mty car keys were in my hand before you could say'you sick F'

jasper · 11/03/2008 21:47

"no falling in love" That's classic

SenoraPostrophe · 11/03/2008 21:55

justaskin - you dumped someone because they didn't pay for your share of food and wine?

I'm so glad we live in the 21st century.

I like the sound of stationery-dressing-gown man too.

getmeouttahere · 11/03/2008 22:05

I couldn't carry on seeing the bloke who, after the 1st time we had sex, he farted and pushed my head under the covers !!

Ilovenutella · 11/03/2008 22:07

When a boyfriend insisted on putting toothpaste on my toothbrush for me and couldn't understand why I wanted to do it myself.......

When another would rather drive a round trip of 6hrs to his mum's house to get his washing done rather than do it himself (oh.... he wouldn't do his own ironing)

When another said that he had 'found himself' and when in a meditative state he could communicate with people all over the world and he knew where a lost city was as a 'soul' had told him (just not for me)

That's just for starters - I am now married to an absolute HERO!!!!

cariboo · 11/03/2008 22:10

When I got my period while staying with a potential dp. There was a bit of blood on the sheets & he leapt up, insisting on changing all the bedding immediately. 'You don't expect me to sleep in a pool of blood, do you?'

getmeouttahere · 11/03/2008 22:22

WHY are blokes so squeamish about menstrual blood?? Its just blood after all.

cariboo · 11/03/2008 22:25

Yeah. Imagine if we made the same fuss about wet patches.