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People Divulge The Moment A Love Interest Gave Them The 'Ick'

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Dating can be pretty fun, but like anything else, there are going to be some bad or weird dates.

But sometimes the person we think we're really into will do something so repulsive, we know instantly that relationship is over.


Redditor th3dankmemer asked:

"Redditors, have you ever gotten the 'ick' from a potential partner or love interest that instantly killed your attraction to them?"
"If so, what happened?"

Uninterested in Them

"We were talking about our interests, and after I listened to him blab about his ''lawn-scaping business,' I went to talk about my interests. He interrupted me to say, 'Wow, you really have nothing interesting to say, do you?'"

- youraveragebrat

Interrogating Them

"I went out with a guy who would not stop grilling me, and I couldn't get him to actually answer any questions about himself."

"I finally just said, 'Look, it's cool that you're so interested in getting to know me, but I'd like to hear about you too. What do you do in your free time?'"

"He sat there and stared for a bit then started listing off TV shows, asking if I'd seen them."

"I had not."

"Finally, he got to 'The Wire,' which I'd seen a few episodes of, and because that was the only one I had any experience with, apparently that meant I needed a 20-minute monologue about what the show was about. I literally checked the clock when he started, and it was a full 20 minutes."

"When he finally petered out, we just sat in silence for a second before he stood up, shook my hand, and left without another word."

- TheDogWhistle

No Personal Space

"He grabbed me by the face on the first date, 'stroked' under my eyes, and said, 'You need to take better care of yourself.'"

"Sir, I’m a divorced 37-year-old woman with kids, and those under-eye circles were passed down from my grandmother. They’re family heirlooms."

"And get your hands off my face. We just met, and this is not a Nicholas Sparks movie."

- IgnoreThisIAmStupid

Victimizing Themselves

"Literally every single problem she had was someone else’s fault. Even when there was proof it was her fault, she would argue nonstop that it was someone else’s."

"She got in a car wreck and called insurance over and over again to tell them that it was the other person’s fault. They checked the computer in her car because it saved the speed she was going right before the wreck. It told them everything they needed to know, and she STILL denied it."

- ctrlALTdeleted716

Bully Behavior

"He bullied someone in front of me. Instant disgust."

- noteveni

Absolute Nose Blindness

"I had a guy once whose car smelled so bad, I had to try not to throw up while sticking my head out the window."

"He couldn't smell it. I thought I was going to die."

"It turns out he forgot about a double cheeseburger in the back of his car for over two weeks in the hot sun."

"I don't know what bothered me more. The smell or the fact that it didn't bother him."

- yuyufan43

Mom the Third Wheel

"I found out the reason he rented the house next door to his parents was so his mom would make his meals, wash his clothes, etc. He had the audacity to say, 'Let me call my mom,' when I mentioned I was a little hungry."

"She was a big enabler, and she was part of the reason I ended the relationship. I don’t need to be coached on 'how to please her baby boy.'"

- SpeechDistinct8793

The Two-Faced Partner

"She was 'best friends' with another girl who she constantly spoke s**t about when said friend wasn't around."

- 11_Jay

"Ooh, I had an ex who did that."

"She got SUPER MAD at her 'best friend' for wanting to go out for sushi a week before her birthday when she wanted sushi! It was totally on purpose just to steal her idea of getting sushi. Because you obviously couldn't go out and get sushi two weekends in a row."

"A couple of weeks later, they were best friends again. A couple of weeks after that, I got ghosted and realized I was better off."

- mdp300

Imaginary Friends

"In college, I was seeing a girl who lived in a student residence with me but on another floor. She would always talk about how another guy, Tom, on her floor was obsessed with her and would show me texts between them. She said she only talked to him because he’s harmless and that they’re friends. I never met him."

"After a week, her ex-friend from high school pulled me aside and told me not to trust her. She said that the girl I was seeing is a notorious liar and that Tom doesn’t exist. That she added her own number in her phone as 'Tom,' would text herself, and then delete the sent messages."

"The only reason her ex-friend knew is that she saw the text message exchange happen in the reflection of a mirror when they were in the same room."

"I was close with the front desk and asked if they could look up the names from that floor. They said yes, and told me that there was no guy named Tom on her floor. I noped out of that real quick."

- GetInMyBellyButton

Reciprocation Matters

"My brief girlfriend bought me some hair care products before she came over because it was right by her house. In return, I said I would go grocery shopping and make her a nice dinner. I thought this to be an even exchange."

"That night I found her looking through my trash for the receipt for the groceries to make sure that the 30 dollars she spent on me was equal to the amount I spent on her dinner."

"Just to clarity, I saw her parents do this to her. It was her upbringing. She did this in every aspect of her life which gave me the ick but she did not have very good role models."

- lookssharp

Conspiracy Theorist

"I dated a guy who seemed chill but kept talking about social media and how people and his exes were scheming against him."

"I believed him at first until it got to a point where he thought things like a photo someone put up was an indicator that they were ‘getting him back’ when these people were literally just doing normal things and posting normal stuff."

"I think he was schizophrenic, but it was really unsettling. Months later, he rang me out of the blue to ask me about a link between his ex, myself, and a friend. The link was butterflies, and because of this link, he thought we were conspiring against him."

- BangGrenade

Constant Assumptions

"He kept making assumptions about me on the first date, like 'I suppose someone like you...' or, 'A girl like you wouldn't understand...'"

"I am literally right here, ask me. Don't tell me what my life is or is like."

"Anyway, eventually I got up and left. They messaged me and asked what my problem was, so I wrote back something to the effect of, 'A boy like you wouldn't understand even if I told you.'"

- Kixion

Faking Seizures

"I realized he was faking seizures our entire relationship to get out of helping me do chores or cook meals."

"We dated for less than a year. I found out from his friends and family he never had a seizure in front of them."

"I came home one night after working a double, and I asked him to please try to make dinner."

"The next night, I found him asleep and woke him up to let him know I was home and where was dinner?"

"He said he had a seizure. This caused an argument where he admitted he faked it. He said his seizures were caused by flashing lights."

"I took him to countless doctors and no one could replicate what I saw all the time. After he admitted it, it finally clicked. He’d been faking it the whole time."

- helloyellowfellow1

Weirder and Weirder

"I went on a date with a guy I met at a party. He made me prove that I liked 'Lord of the Rings' by answering who said what when he quoted someone."

"He pulled out a notebook of really poorly drawn anime characters and asked me if he could draw me."

"He was a lot shorter than me and asked if it bothered me. I said no, then he said, 'Good, I like Amazonian goddesses.'"

"He kept trying to put his jewelry onto me despite my protests. He asked what I wanted to order for food, and then ignored me and ordered me something else and got frustrated I didn't eat it all."

"He referenced being arrested, made me guess what for, and when I refused to guess for not knowing him well enough, he said GBH (Grievous Bodily Harm)."

"He was a trainee doctor and asked if I'd ever broken any bones. When I replied yes, he said that he was going to look up my X-rays."

"And the icing on the cake... When I wanted to leave, he got my knee-high boots, slipped them onto my feet, zipped them up, and said, 'You should always be treated like a goddess... My Morticia Addams.'"

"ALL ONE DATE."

- choccymilkaddict

Saving Marriages One Story at a Time

"This thread is saving my marriage."

- letsjakeonit

"No kidding!"

"My parents love to say that after going out in public, there’s no one else they’d rather go home with."

- Tup1000

We've all met some unusual people in our lives, but it's especially strange when we're dating them and make unexpected discoveries about them.

At least a relationship doesn't have to last forever unless it's meant to.

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