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The moment your crush withered?

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MarilynMerlot · 17/08/2026 18:46

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.

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EstoyRobandoSuCasa · Yesterday 10:32

pomegranatescent · Yesterday 08:21

It wasn’t far off that! He even put his hand to his chest to emphasise his surprise!

He’d literally heard me pull up 45 seconds prior and told me where to park and told me to enter through the wide open front door!

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😂😂😂

EstoyRobandoSuCasa · Yesterday 10:38

canuckup · Yesterday 02:58

'Another couldn't tell a sparrow from a blackbird'

😂

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).

Whosthetabbynow · Yesterday 11:09

Crushed23 · Yesterday 04:42

Not really a crush but an ex-BF. He had flat feet and no shape to his legs. They looked like tree trunks, although he wasn’t fat. He’d also lost weight but hadn’t toned up so was ‘skinny fat’ and kind of soft which made him look feminine. He looked fine with clothes on and he’s a really nice guy - happily married now etc. - but he was so not my type, I learned.

🤣🤣🤣

NovemberMorn · Yesterday 12:00

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.

ThatCyanCat · Yesterday 15:37

pomegranatescent · 19/08/2026 15:13

Early stages dating a guy. He was quite extroverted and often talked about how he was a great singer and his friends would often ask him to sing at their weddings and birthdays! I never asked him to sing for me because I think I’d have cringed to death.

Anyway he invites me to his for dinner. Just before I arrive he messages me telling me the front door is open and to walk straight through to the kitchen.

Then texts me as I’m pulling up telling me where to park.

As I walk into the house, he’s in the kitchen chopping veg and crooning at the top of his lungs 🎶 as if he’s on a West End stage. As I enter the room he stops and says “Oh! Wasn’t expecting you to be there! Was just singing away to myself” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

He was so desperate for me to hear him sing. I know that for some people that would have been lovely, but not for me thanks Elvis.

Was he a good singer?

Hiredgun · Yesterday 15:44

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.

Disturbia81 · Today 07:59

Hiredgun · Yesterday 15:44

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

Hiredgun · Today 08:08

Disturbia81 · Today 07:59

Probably bad habits more than age

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

WhatNextImScared · Today 08:20

FantasyFoodhall · Yesterday 04:07

Asked me a question and then interrupted me to tell me how beautiful I was, then again to ask me to look into his eyes ‘really close to’ whilst I answered, then another time to tell me he knew I felt the same as him about everything. He was so disappointing.
I can confirm that it is not possible to answer a question and look at someone ‘really close to’ without laughing.

I felt enraged just reading that.

piscofrisco · Today 08:23

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.

TheGoddessFrigg · Today 08:26

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

Lobelia123 · Today 08:26

rainbowbrong · 17/08/2026 21:32

Guy at gym, never spoken to each other. Intriguing, silent man of mystery. Tall, dark, passable. Occasional eye contact. Once asked him if he was using some equipment and he shook his head and smiled at me. Ooh, what could happen? Left the gym one day shortly after to find him sitting outside talking on the phone. His voice just wasn’t right. It was kind of higher pitched and squeakier than I’d expected. Any butterflies I’d ever wondered about immediately stopped flapping, just withered and died. What a shame. I like having a gym crush as it makes me work out harder!

Also known as 'David Beckham syndrome' LOL :)

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MarilynMerlot · Today 08:30

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 🤢

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ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · Today 08:32

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.

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