The moment your crush withered?

[MarilynMerlot]

What was the moment the lightbulb came on for you and a mad crush just died?

I’ve posted about this before but the moment that killed a totally consuming crush was he developed a fixation on keto, ‘raw food’ and intermittent fasting, and I saw him eating ‘dinner‘ that was just four plain very soft-boiled eggs and then lick the yolk off the plate and I nearly threw up. He also called it the ‘keto protocol’ with a serious face like he thought he was in the army, in some ways that was even worse.

😂😂😂

I dated one of those! He knew absolutely nothing about birds. He didn’t even know that in many bird species, the males and females have different colouring.

And to think he took the piss out of me for mispronouncing the name of the teddy bear in Brideshead Revisited! (Aloysius, for those who haven’t read it).

🤣🤣🤣

More serious (to me) than a shattered crush...married for a couple of years, my husband was/is a Tom Sellick lookalike. Back then he had jet black hair, and a gorgeous matching moustache.
One day, he appeared from the bathroom clean shaven. I couldn't even look at him. It was if one of his facial features had been taken away and I was looking at a stranger.

It did honestly affect me, I was married to someone with a different face to my husband. Thankfully his hair grows quickly, and he soon returned to normal.

He has never shaven it off since.

Was he a good singer?

I used to have such a crush on a beautiful redhead in my school days. I moved away and was back visiting my home town several years after graduation. This woman came up to me and was trying to get me up to dance but she was blind drunk. I had no idea who she was until a friend told me. Age had sadly been very unkind to her.

Probably bad habits more than age

I was trying to be kind by rolling out the old age trope but yes, probably some bad habits took its toll.

I felt enraged just reading that.

I had a sort of non sexual crush on a mum
I met at the school gates. She dressed like me and it transpired we liked lots of the same things. It got to the let’s go for breakfast after drop off stage. She was a vegan (fine) and when I ordered my eggs on toast she said ‘I consider eggs to be chickens periods’. There was not another breakfast and it’s annoying because I love eggs in all forms and now I can’t eat them without thinking about it.

I had a crush on a man who travelled on my bus- for 8 years!. He was really handsome, stylish dresser, lovely tattoos. Then one day he got on the bus and a) he scraped his hair into a desperate scraggy man bun and b) I heard him say Bye on the phone in a really fey highpitched way. That was it - eight years just totally dissipated

Also known as 'David Beckham syndrome' LOL :)

sardine breath with my old boss, I used to imagine a passionate snog with him in the deserted finance office but he loved sardines and close to his mouth reeked of fish 🤢

I remember reading a Fess Hole post on X about a woman who was just about to start an affair with her brother in law.

She said they were talking on Face Time, before they were due to meet up; and she said watching him try to be sexy just killed it then and there.

Not a crush either,but my ex

He didn't have an arse (he was about 8 stone wet through)

His legs sort of went up to where his back started

If he wore jeans/trackie bottoms it looked like he was wearing a full nappy

I tried so hard to get past it but couldn't so I finished it

(He was also an abusive twat who had a massive complex about being skinny)

Nooo! @piscofrisco Now I won't be able to eat eggs without thinking of chicken periods either 😕

sorry 🫣

Wtf

Really? Why would that even bother you? 🤣🤣🤣 did you think he'd do it for your wedding lol.

Had sex with them. The longing and fantasy just never measured up. Instant death to my obsession (thank god).

I was dating a guy when I was 17. I dumped him for my x husband.

When I broke up with my x husband the guy i had dumped, came back on the scene. We had always sent birthday wishes over the years, but on this occasion we started chatting and I immediately became smitten. I couldn't stop thinking about him, but we lived in different countries now.

We decided to meet for the first time in 30yrs in Cambridge and stay a few nights at a hotel. Of course I'd seen him in photos, and we had talked on the phone, but when I saw him in the flesh a little part of me died. I'd forgotten how short he was, I felt like gigantor next to him. He still looked like a boy with wrinkles.

We had a lovely time, but immediately the rose colour spectacles fell away. Walking through town, hand in hand made me feel fat and like his mother. It was a strange feeling.

I'm grateful for those few days and it was a good way to get over my husband, but I just couldn't get past the ick.

I'm now dating an x rugby player for the last few years, and I feel small and protected next to him, which is what I needed.

This is what I mean about a crush being a lack of info. It’s NEVER going to live up to fantasy land because they will simply fart, or blow their nose in a weird way, or have sardine breath, or leave crusty pants on the floor and be a bit shit at sex, and you’ll realise they’re just a person. A crush is like microdosing insanity, a total break from reality 😂

It was exhausting. Amazing that these men exist that think any of us would like that!

He told me he'd failed a university exam, it was the second time he'd failed, and he was angry with the professor he thought had it in for him. 17 year old me immediately shuffled the handsome pharmacy student whose company I'd been enjoying into the bin labelled LOSER. Once I got to university myself I discovered that failing exams isn't a character flaw and sometimes professors do have it in for individual students.

That's concerning, at home (not restaurants) I always enjoy licking up the remainder of any sauce etc on my plate.

Delicious!

The alternative is to dab it up with bread, but you know.....bread past the lips, straight to the hips!