Breaking up is hard to do for anyone. Whether you're the person doing the dumping or the person who is dumped, you feel pretty bad after. Sometimes, there are solid reasons to end things with someone, like cheating and lying. Other times, there are some petty reasons why people end relationships.
Recently, Reddit users have been sharing the prettiest reasons they've ended things with someone else, and brace yourself, it's bad.
"I broke up with my girlfriend in eighth grade because she called me four times a day when we didn't have cell phones. I got tired of talking on the phone and broke it off," one person said about their ex.
One person shared that a friend of theirs has ended things for petty reasons numerous times. One guy cut his spaghetti, so she said "bye."
Another guy said "whoopsie" when he dropped something and she was totally out of there immediately.
"Was chatting to a girl online. She seemed very up for it - she asked to meet up, set a time and place. An hour before she says “shoot forgot to ask, how tall are you?” When I said 5,11 she just said “sorry, one inch off” and that was that," one person wrote.
One guy said that he ended things with a girl because of her laugh.
He didn't want to tell her because "when a person laughs they are at their happiest," but he couldn't handle the laugh at all.
"We went bowling and she started saying the bowling ball was hurting her fingers. She was convinced that there were bugs inside the bowling ball biting her fingers and that was the reason for her pain," one person shared on the thread.
One guy shared that he was texting with a girl who was sharing all of her "standards of guys," which he said was fine, but what wasn't fine was the number of spelling errors she had in all of her text messages.
"Her toenails were so long whenever she was nearby you could hear clicking from the ground as if she was a dog," one guy said on Reddit.
Could you imagine hearing someone's toe nails when they walk? That is a big turn off, for anyone!
"My ex's name was Simone. She was studying business administration and had a horse.
We broke up after she [slept with] another dude.
I got over it, and met another girl. Her name was Simone. She was studying business administration and had a horse.
Nope," said one person.
One Reddit user said she ended things with a guy because he was an "open mouth kisser."
Not when they made out, but when they had a peck on the mouth, he would open his mouth. She was like "nope, next."
"I could not stand her smell. No, she didn't stink. But it was that "immune system does not match"- smell. I just could not get turned on, and the kisses felt like paper.
Luckily, we handled this like grown-ups and are still friends," one guy shared on Reddit.
One girl said she didn't like that a guy she was dating didn't use pillowcases on any of his pillows.
Not that he didn't own any, because he did, but he never put them on his pillows. Ever.
"This dude was super sweet and had a lot of good qualities. He was a plumber and casually admitted to me that sometimes he will bite/clean his nails after work and taste the remnants of what he touched that day. I could not get over that and had to move on," one person said.
One guy said he was distracted by the way the tip of a girl's nose would wiggle every single time that she spoke.
He couldn't concentrate on anything else, so he ended things with her completely.
"I also once stopped seeing a girl because I felt like I had to encourage her to make choices all the time. I think autonomy and initiative/sensation seeking are super attractive character traits, and I couldn't imagine being with someone who doesn't possess those traits," another said.
One guy shared that on a first date, the girl screamed at him to "stop" in the middle of a 4-lane highway and she got out of the car, "played Frogger" across the lanes, grabbed a hub cap, and came back to the car.
She told him it was "to commemorate" their first date and they can "share" custody of it. It was their first and last date.
How could any '90s kid not want to be constantly reminded of one of the best animated shows of all time?! You know I'm talking about Rugrats! I'd consider this to be a huge missed opportunity.
While it may not necessarily be a means to end a relationship, I can totally understand why someone would find an overabundance of exclamation points annoying.
Not everything is that exciting. Relax and take a breath.
"We were playing Jenga and I noticed that she only drew from the middle, never once from the sides. It made me feel like she was timid and boring. That the[sic] moment I lost attraction to her and broke up with her not long after." - Reddit u/BasketeerOverHere
"She ate a banana sideways," Redditor peazley explained. "Would hold it horizontally, peel it and take bites from the side."
This isn't a petty reason to break up with someone, Anyone who would eat a banana sideways is definitely a psychopath.
Reddit user mrwhoisthatdude claims that they got rejected based solely on the fact that they happened to be a Libra.
That sounds like the move of a typical type-A Virgo if you ask me.
No matter how hard marginalizedmustard tried to convince his ex that snakes had bones, she simply wouldn't believe him. He even went so far as to buy a snake skeleton and still she refused to accept it.
"First day he visited my apt he opened the kitchen cabinet without asking, saw my kids[sic] vitamins and said ooh gummies! And started to shove them In his mouth." - Reddit u/Ornery_Pumpkin_8691
Reddit user Additional_Ad1054 said that even by the third date, there was nothing to be found — not even dish soap! Apparently, he never smelled but it was still too weird to get past.
