38 Of The Most Unusual Reasons People Have Gotten "The Ick" From Their Romantic Partners, And I Can't Tell If They Are Too Picky, Or If The People They're Dating Are Gravely, Deeply Unwell

Look, dating is hard. People are retired determination trying to find connection, but a batch of pieces person to travel unneurotic for a mates to work. Sometimes, you conscionable can't assistance but announcement small things astir idiosyncratic (no substance however weird oregon seemingly insignificant) that conscionable aren't going to work. As Liz Lemon erstwhile said, "That's a dealbreaker, ladies!"

1. "This mightiness look benignant of strange, but I can't day radical who hatred pigeons. Those mediocre guiltless birds were betrayed by humanity, and radical conscionable deliberation they're pests."

—u/moapika

2. "On dating apps, it's an instant swipe near if they person skydiving pictures successful their profile. I don't attraction however charismatic they are oregon however galore things successful their bio sounded interesting. Why? Because I americium terrified of heights and person an adjacent greater fearfulness of falling. If you went skydiving and posted pictures of it connected your dating profile, you're going to privation to bash it again, and you're going to privation maine to bash it with you. There is simply a 0% accidental I'm ever going to bash it, and that volition beryllium disappointing to you. We'll bash the full 'come on, it volition beryllium truthful overmuch fun!' 'Honestly, I was frightened to, but it's truthful fun, and it's implicit truthful fast!' 'The teacher is determination the full time!' 'Please, however astir for my birthday?' I'll accidental no, and you'll beryllium upset. So let's conscionable skip each that and ne'er adjacent conscionable each other."

—u/PoisonLenny37

3. "I dumped a dude due to the fact that each clip we had sex, helium wanted to perceive to Linkin Park portion we were banging. I lone fto it hap 1 and a fractional times earlier I threw successful the towel. Like???? Why????????"

—u/Small_Frog_In_Pants

4. "If they are rude to inanimate objects — not people, but objects. The benignant of idiosyncratic who slams a doorway due to the fact that it didn't adjacent right, throws a controller, punches the dashboard. It sounds ridiculous, but I person noticed it usually means they are carrying astir mode much choler than immoderate concern calls for."

—u/Still_Garage_7241

5. "Guys who deterioration sandals arsenic an mundane shoe. I'm sorry, but I don't privation to spot your feet similar that."

—u/PaleMycologist9373

6. "I had an ex who would connection backmost and distant with radical connected PlayStation for HOURS trying to person the past petty connection successful a combat due to the fact that idiosyncratic called him a loser successful Call of Duty. Like, nary of this is adjacent real!! 😭😭"

—u/TheDrandLadyWeird

7. "Turned down a feline erstwhile due to the fact that helium ever had to sojourn his ma each azygous Sunday and wouldn’t marque an exception, not adjacent if we wanted to spell connected holiday. We ever had to enactment astir it truthful helium could beryllium backmost connected Sunday. His ma was wholly steadfast and fine! She didn’t request him to beryllium determination every Sunday. It’s large to person a bully narration with your family, but that was conscionable a small excessively much."

—u/Perfect_Fix2888

8. "She shaved her eyebrows arsenic a joke, and past they ne'er grew back."

—u/dumpmymoney

"Losing eyebrows AND a boyfriend?? I'd ne'er recover. 😭😭"

—u/characterhoneypop

9. "I had to crook a feline down due to the fact that helium was conscionable excessively tall. I'm not adjacent a abbreviated pistillate (a small implicit 5'9"), but this dude was so fucking tall. I truly disliked having to crane my cervix backmost conscionable to speech to him. He was a bully guy, but I truly felt uncomfortable with him towering implicit me."

—u/gayasadragonfly

10. "He didn't similar euphony — ANY genre of music. He didn't adjacent get wherefore radical similar it. I had ne'er met idiosyncratic who didn't similar euphony earlier that. I emotion music, and I danced for galore years, truthful it's truly important to me. I request to beryllium capable to creation with my partner. Today I americium with idiosyncratic who loves euphony arsenic well, and adjacent though helium is simply a silly dancer, we emotion to creation together."

—u/leaomanhoso

11. "I've met mode excessively galore guys who don’t brushwood their teeth successful the morning. It's an instant deal-breaker. I’m not consenting to thatch basal hygiene to a grown man. I tin tolerate a batch of ick, but nope, not that again. Have amusive with your stank breath, you child."

—u/kidkipp

12. "I (M38) was precise precocious wholly turned disconnected successful the mediate of an different bully day by a pistillate (31) who conscionable seemed hellbent connected having an big life, with big hobbies, and big everything. She told maine astir her precise childish ex, who couldn't get a grip connected life, and however she had to grip everything for him. I tin perfectly recognize wherever she was coming from, but that's nary crushed to wholly strangle your interior child. I'll support my 'silly' hobbies aft adulting each day, convey you precise much."

—u/Bravemount

13. "I stopped dating idiosyncratic successful ample portion due to the fact that she spoke mode excessively quietly. She was hard to perceive successful idiosyncratic and darn adjacent intolerable to perceive connected the phone. Every speech was tiring. And honestly, it's truly unfortunate due to the fact that I liked her successful a batch of ways, but this was legit a challenge. And earlier you ask, yes, I talked to her astir it, and if you're wondering what she said back, truthful americium I."

—u/CarpeNivem

14. "I can’t day a feline who is excessively large successful general, similar erstwhile helium does things oregon erstwhile helium talks. I similar a antheral who does things softly and has a much calm demeanor."

—u/moonsaunas

15. "Someone wanted maine to ticker gory videos to go stronger erstwhile they knew I get sick oregon faint astatine the show of it. They thought it was anemic to beryllium sensitive."

—u/Academic-Thought2462

16. "I retrieve I was seeing idiosyncratic casually, and they were acold each the time. Like, acold with hard muscles. I similar my men lukewarm and soft."

—u/Away-Veterinarian811

"This is the tegument of a killer, Bella."

—u/verdant_squirrel

17. "If he’s wholly soccer-obsessed, it's a dealbreaker. I cognize idiosyncratic who HAS TO travel each azygous crippled and each the quality astir his favourite team, nary substance wherever helium is. He’s truthful obsessed that if they lose, helium really cries and is depressed for days."

—u/prova_provaa

18. "Tongue hygiene is truthful important to me. I dated a guy, but had to interruption up with him due to the fact that his lingua had a GREEN coating. Like, consistently. I could not get past that. No mode did I privation that successful my mouth, fto unsocial elsewhere!"

—u/Crisp_white_linen

19. "When I was 16, I broke up with my archetypal fellow due to the fact that helium got a vessel cut, and 2 weeks later, we got backmost unneurotic erstwhile it grew backmost a bit. Lmao."

—u/Fantastic_Flower6664

20. "I had a day with a miss successful assemblage who was VERY attractive, but erstwhile she got successful the car, I could odor that she was wearing the aforesaid perfume my parent wears (mom was successful her midlife situation era.) I americium not 1 who easy gets 'the ick', but this was the biblically close explanation of it."

—u/forensicdude

21. "They utilized WAY excessively overmuch mousse successful their hair, and it was crunchy to the interaction astatine each times. It wholly turned maine disconnected from them."

—u/nuggetblaster69

22. "Being specified an overdramatic Christian. I'm Christian too, but much down-to-earth. I can't basal erstwhile each small determination needs to beryllium based connected 'what signals the lord gave me' alternatively of utilizing communal sense."

—u/Gias1

23. "Sorry, but I would ne'er day different firefighter. The past feline I dated was portion of a unpaid department; helium had to transportation a pager with him astatine each times. Most of his calls were for things similar brushwood fires and tiny operation fires, oregon state and CO2 checks. His pager ever went disconnected astatine truly inconvenient times, and it happened truthful often that I joked helium was triggering it connected intent to get retired of stuff. We'd beryllium connected a day oregon having dinner, making out, cuddling connected the sofa, etc., and he'd person to suit up and tally disconnected each time. Aside from the exigency response, I was disquieted sick astir him each the time; each telephone made maine worry, particularly the operation fires. He came location 1 clip with immoderate heat-damaged gear, and it truly freaked maine out."

—u/Walmartian_Beta

24. "When I was dating, I refused to day an lone child. I was successful a semipermanent narration with 1 once, and I’m definite determination are precise well-adjusted lone children retired there, but my ex was incredibly self-centered, and I deliberation a large portion of that was that the attraction was lone connected them"

—u/eaglesnation11

25. "They had 2 corgis who they refused to bid properly, to the grade that they'd ever beryllium jumping connected radical and trying to slobber their faces. I haven't dated idiosyncratic with a canine since. I'm conscionable not astir that."

—u/tfrules

26. "She said she hated animals. Who TF hates animals?!"

—u/AdamRose4Ever

27. "He looked astatine maine with puppy-dog eyes and tilted his caput somewhat to the broadside erstwhile I spoke to him. I don't cognize why, but it creeped maine out."

—u/Anzi130

28. "He was tall, handsome, smart, romantic, aforesaid background, aforesaid spiritual views — helium was a large feline with a large aboriginal up of him. He seemed to truly similar me, and my mum was rooting for him hard. It was cleanable connected paper, but I had ne'er erstwhile honestly laughed astatine thing helium had said. I had to accidental no."

—u/exxcathedra

29. "If they person immoderate magnitude of vocal fry oregon mispronounce words similar 'expresso', 'expecially', oregon 'supposably', I conscionable can't bash it."

—u/JNCO_Malfoy

"Could you beryllium much pacific?"

—u/Moofler

30. "I was seeing a feline who had the aforesaid sanction arsenic my sibling, and arsenic overmuch arsenic I tried, I conscionable couldn’t get implicit it. And the shortened mentation of his sanction was the aforesaid 1 my member used, too, truthful that didn’t assistance either."

—u/Jumpy_Funny_4711

31. "I erstwhile asked a miss what her hobbies were, and she said she didn't truly person immoderate different than speechmaking and watching TV. I asked her if determination was thing she wanted to bash oregon try, and she said, 'Not really.' I would effort to suggest amusive day ideas, similar a candlelight concert, for example, but she was ne'er into them. And the existent occupation was that she would ne'er suggest an alternative."

—u/Bamres

32. "If they trigger my misophonia, I conscionable can't get astir it. If they respire excessively loudly, marque rima sounds oregon lingua clicking noises, oregon devour excessively loudly, they person got to go."

—u/GlitteringHoneydew9

33. "I wouldn't day a miss due to the fact that she was specified a picky eater. I mean, she would lone devour similar 3 things. It was intolerable to spell retired to eat, and question was wholly retired of the question."

—u/farttowel84

34. "If the wrong of their car is disgusting, I conscionable can't get past that."

—u/sweet_n_feral

35. "Their smell. I americium a super-smeller, and determination are conscionable immoderate radical who person a musky scent to them. Even if I find each different happening attractive, I conscionable can’t get past this."

—u/Well_this-sucks

36. "Too overmuch cologne. Like, immoderate is fine, but if I tin odor it 5 feet distant from you, it's TOO much!"

—u/princess-of-aces

37. "I don't caput the occasional manus holding connected a locomotion erstwhile the temper is right, but walking done shops, etc., portion holding hands is specified a symptom successful the ass, that if I ever get into different relationship, I volition marque it known from time 1 that it's not for me."

—u/sticky-stix

What are your antithetic dealbreakers erstwhile it comes to dating? The weirder and much circumstantial the better! Tell maine successful the comments oregon usage the anonymous signifier below. Your effect whitethorn extremity up being featured successful an upcoming BuzzFeed article!

Note: Responses person been edited for length/clarity.