Weaskedmembers of theBuzzFeed Communityto tell us about the icks that helped them get over an ex.
Here’s what people bravely shared:
1.
“The creepy, smiley face he would make when he would rip a large fart.
It was like he was a giant baby or something.
Don’t miss that.”
Anonymous
2.
He would get pissy about it, in fact.
I got really sick both winters I lived with him.
His friends were also elated when I moved in because there was ‘finally’ soap in the bathrooms.
Excuse me???"
“My ex refused to tip.
Well, we spontaneously decided to treat ourselves to Olive Garden.
This man was literally asking our poor waitress to move heaven and earth.
When we went to pay, he said he would pay, which was nice.
But, he didn’t leave a tip.
queenlovie
5.
“He had a deep, cartoonish laugh that sounded like ‘hur hur hur.’
But oh my god.
Why did it sound like that?
I sometimes wonder if he did it on purpose because it was deeply unnatural.”
“The fact that she started washing only once per week.”
mitrofannorris
7.
“I was in an on-again-off-again relationship with a man.
In retrospect, I was way more into it than he was.
At the end, I spent a full weekend with him.
He was drunk almost the entire weekend.
I noticed that the alcohol made him smell bad and act erratically.
I decided to end it after that weekend.”
“This man did not own any pillows, just various-sized stuffed animals.
I shudder whenever I look back on that.”
2dabdeb
9.
“Realizing that he was not smart at all.
It never hit me during the relationship, but afterwards, it did.”
caakle
10.
“His mom would bring his daily meds to him.
ninak40a16c78c
11.
“He had a Hank Hill ass.”
“Looking back, I realize that I never, ever saw them brush their teeth.”
“How much he liked porn.”
ginnyjensen
14. nemo17
15.
“He had started losing his hair when he was in his early 20s.
It still grosses me out.”
“How messy he was, and how much of a mess he made our shared home.
“He couldn’t read out loud.
He used me being ‘perfect’ as an excusenotto fall in love with me.
And, he wanted to be in the military.
Ive also seen him eat spaghetti with a plastic butter knife.
Both major icks.”
“He posted a picture recently on social media of his ‘shoe wall’ like it was a gallery.
Over $50k in shoes.
Sneaker heads are a different breed and definitely not for me.
Financial security »> sneakers.”
genericjill
20.
“He became a devoted Disney adult.”
“I saw that the woman he dated after me is a Trump supporter.
When we dated, he claimed to have very progressive values.
Either way, thats not the kind of person Id want to be with.”
“He couldn’t drive, swim, or ride a bike.”
“My ex had to have everything a certain way, which I didn’t know beforehand.
Sometimes, he would relent and compromise, but eventually, he would start to complain.
sadartha
24.
“My ex was best man at the wedding of a couple we’d known well.
He also grew out a beard, and it looked horrible on him.”
“My high school ex-boyfriend and I were in touch intermittently throughout our 20s.
I considered us friendly, although I definitely still thought he was THE cutest.
I also thought he was smart and well-informed, and I liked talking politics with him.
Cue the last time we hung out.
We were talking about a complex sociopolitical topic, but we weren’t agreeing on a certain point.
Then, he said, ‘I have a degree in law.
I know what I’m talking about.’
When in the last 10 years had this man gone to law school?
“When I got home, I looked him up.
Turns out he had a paralegal diploma, which is not the same as a full law degree.
Now, I’m not trying to insult paralegals or even his knowledge of the law.
I lost so much respect for him in that moment.
Who knows what else he had exaggerated/embellished over the years?
Why make up a lie about this?
So unnecessary and corny.”
“We dated long distance for a while after he moved to another state.
I was waiting him out, absolutely certain he would come around and see what we had.
Instead, he moved across the country to be with a married woman who ‘needed him.’
I realized then that he was not the person I thought he was.”
I was devastated, and for two years, I considered him ‘the one that got away.’
Our breakup was out of the blue.
I never understood what went wrong, and he never explained why he left me.
I had a chance encounter and ran into him two years after the breakup.
We talked, and I found out he got married six months after we broke up.
For some reason, that made me feel better about the breakup.
However, that’s not what killed my feelings.”
He cheated on ME with her, and now he was trying to cheat on HER with me.
Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
