25 Things A Partner Did That Made People Dump Them Instantly
We live in an era of data, and our brains have become wired to consistently analyse the available information before making sound decisions. Decisions that may be hard to act on, but are necessary nevertheless to ensure peace of mind. Even when that choice is an insistent demand that you walk away from a problematic partner during the courting period. Someone online recently asked, ”What did your partner do that made you leave them instantly?” Redditors responded with their personal experiences, and we’ve shared a few popular favourites in the gallery below.
#1
Our marriage counselor, a psychiatrist who saw us both together and separately, told me privately that I needed to leave him or I was going to die. That was eye opening.
#2
#3
My grandfather offered to buy her lunch while we were out with my family at the local Scottish Games and she flipped out on him. He was stunned, said nevermind and walked away. I was baffled that anyone would treat my grandfather in such a way. When we were in the car on the way home, she started saying he was hitting on her. She was 21 at the time. My grandfather just wanted to get to know her. I broke up with her on the way home and told her that my family was more important to me than she was. The next day, I called my grandfather to apologize and all he said was “you’re grown up and can make your own decisions, but I don’t think she’s right for you.”
I agree Grandpa, I totally agree.
#4
Fed my hamster to his friend snake.
#5
I wanted to send myself a copy of a pic he had taken, so he gave me his phone to find it.
Previous to this moment, I knew he had a foot f****h and I found a few covert pics of my own feet. I didnt actually care that much until I found sneaky pics of MY MOTHER’S FEET.
Relationship over.
#6
Kicked my dog. .
#7
She found the keys i hid when she was very drunk. I told her I wouldn’t let her leave drunk and that I would sleep on the couch if needed, etc. (We lived together for over a year at this point). She got in the car parked in our garage, and I stood right behind it, pleading with her not to drive. She threw it in reverse and would have run me over if I didn’t jump up on the trunk and then roll out of the way. That was that. Don’t need that in my life.
#8
My toddler was crying because he wanted his mom (me) and not his dad (my ex husband). My ex husband started spanking the hell out of my toddler for that reason. We were in the middle of a fight and he took his anger at me out on a baby. He had been a***e to me in the past but that was the last dn straw. You don’t touch my child. I was at the police station the next morning. All this to say I know the detrimental psychological effects of hearing your parents fight are also so, so damaging. I regret not leaving sooner but at least I left and my kids and I are safe and happy now.
#9
Was mean to my grandmother. Not to her face, but she spoke badly and disrespected her in front of me. I lived at my grandmother because my mother was incapable of raising me, so that was a dealbreaker. We were together for almost 4 years, but if you disrespect this woman, you will be removed from my life instantly.
#10
She screamed at her daughters in public for the most trivial things. Got loud with her parents and wait staff for little to no reason. I dropped her off after a date and told her this is not, what I’m looking for and wished her luck. Blocked her on everything and moved right the hell on.
#11
Put my cat in danger. Left from Utah to Florida THE NEXT MORNING. Love my cat more than the world.
#12
After a lot of shots, he told me he really hates listening to black people talk, then proceeded to make fun of what he “hears when they yap” . For reference, I was his first black girlfriend, lol.
#13
Right after my mom died he told me that I needed to rely on my family for emotional support and not him and that my emotions made him want to chug vodka.
#14
I walked in on him performing fellatio, on my cousin! I’m a woman, I’m straight, thought he was too! Edit – for clarity, it was a heterosexual marriage.
#15
An ex cheated on me while I was going through heart surgery. I dumped him instantly. A lesson I needed to learn and I learnt it well lol.
#16
It was 7am on NYE. We were in the airport to fly out and go party. He was still drunk from the night before, stomping behind me like a big baby, hollering at me “you know I hate morning flights! Why TF would you book such an early flight!!” And the the kiss of death when he hissed “you’re so stupid.”
I stopped, and turned to look at him. My inner voice asked “wtf are you doing with this mess of a dude?” I walked out of the airport and left him there.
#17
Sucker punched me in the head after I told her she couldn’t tell me who I could be friends with.
The next morning she made it clear I made the right decision by pretending she had a car accident and was in the hospital.
Edit: Forgot to add the following evening I was going out for drinks with coworkers celebrating a promotion. She tried to crash it with a few friends dressed up like they were a bachelorette party. Thankfully she arrived before us, I walked in saw her and walked right back out again and texted everyone a new location.
#18
He wished death upon the “old hags who live next door, ruining his life” because someone had asked the building supervisor to go talk to him about the noise. He was having a house party with loud music blasting through open windows at 11:30 p.m. on a Tuesday.
#19
Got upset that he and his kids weren’t in my will…I was a single mother and We’d been dating for three months.
#20
He had told me he was single, then he said separated from his ex wife. Turns out he wasn’t, I was stupidly obsessed with this guy. So I gave him some time to fix “his situation” after weeks he said she was out of the picture, obviously she wasn’t. One night I was about to make us dinner and she started calling and texting him so I asked what did she want? He said “I don’t know, but don’t worry I’ll tell her I’ll go to bed so she leaves us alone” he then went to take a shower. While he was showering I got myself an uber, left and never saw him again. Ohh and I called the so called ex wife to let her know. Surprise! She obviously didn’t know about me either… so yeah, not sure how he fixed that.
#21
He invited himself to everything I did with my friends (I bought a concert ticket, he would buy it too w/o being invited). I hated that he didn’t have a life outside of me.
#22
Hooked up with my dad.
#23
Almost cost me my job by showing up there jealous of my boss causing a scene. Mortifying and the last straw.
#24
He was unemployed at Christmas Time, so I bought his family members gifts. The entire time I was at his family gathering, he was texting with random people and random girls. I was the only one actually engaging with them. Christmas also happens to be my birthday, and I had kept a box-cake in the cupboard for months.
Not once did he consider making the cake for my birthday (at no cost to him – I made sure everything was available) or even hand write a s****y-card.
We got home from his parents place, I told him to pack his s**t and get out. I called his mom and said “Oh, I’m so sorry. He’s going to have to come back. He forgot his manners.” (He had nowhere else to live). She apologized to me, and was not at all surprised.
Good riddance, don’t let society let you be mistreated!
#25
Screamed at me for entering the car while she was having a private conversation with our friend (I had no clue, I was just walking back from ordering takeout at a restaurant).
Shanilou Perera
Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.
“Alaska Isn’t Next To Hawaii?”: 25 Moments People Realized They Were Dating Someone Kinda Stupid
Being in a relationship has its entertaining moments, and partnered-up folks have been gathering to relate their experiences dealing with an SO that seems to be the living embodiment of a dad-joke.
As much as we would love to claim that these stories sound made up or AI-written, it appears that, from the 8 billion people in the world, there are moments where even the smartest whip displays an acute sense of stupidity that would be shocking if not for the incredible entertainment value they provide. Scroll below to check out a few examples of the funniest moments when these Redditors found out that their better half may not be quite all there in the intelligence department, but decided to love them for it, regardless.
#1
Never took a shower, always a bath. I’d ask why and “she just hates showers” Finally our grown children pressured her into an answer. “I just hate that first cold blast of water when it starts” Kids and I look at each other for a while, I finally say “I hate it too, that’s why I am usually OUTSIDE the shower when it happens” Long awkward silence. She has been showering ever since..
#2
Cooked me a cup of noodles with no water.
#3
When he straight up thought baby ducks were called quacklings. But to be honest, I actually prefer his version.
#4
Oh god. My SO has his PHD and is, on paper, super smart. However, when we had a rare sunny day (I’m in Scotland) he got one of those disposable BBQs that are basically just a tray with the charcoal in it. He set it up on a wooden chair because apparently “it won’t burn this”. Cue one very charcoal chair.
Bonus story: he decided he didn’t need to shut the electricity off to change a socket. Looked at me like I was an idiot for suggesting this and then proceeded to get an electric shock almost immediately.
Edit: sooo many people assume his PhD is in the arts. It’s not – he has a masters in Engineering and a PhD in Neuroscience.
#5
#6
I bought him a new watch and it was water resistant.
I told him I wanted to see him wearing it at the pool when we go do laps. He did two laps, got out, took off his watch and came back to the pool.
I asked him why he took it off. I thought maybe it was uncomfortable.
He told me it was water resistant “up to 100 meters” so he took it off after two 50 meter laps.
#7
My wife spent two hours installing a wireless printer because she didn’t plug it in. “But it’s wireless!”
She also cashed a check and when they asked if she wanted big or small bills she said regular size.
Both stories are absolutely true, and I’m so goddamned happy I married a living dad joke. (She’s definitely no idiot though)
#8
He forgets the names of things, and so will often make up a new name in the middle of a sentence without breaking stride. My personal favorite was when he forgot what a sandwich was called, so he asked me to make him a “meat bread”. Throughout the years I’ve become fluent in husband, but at first it would take me awhile to figure out what he was talking about.
He also does this thing where if he forgets someone’s name, he renames them Terry in his mind. He called our neighbor Terry for over a year, to the man’s face, until one day neighbor’s wife finally corrected him and told him that neighbor’s name was Neil.
My husband is an absolute idiot, but he’s my idiot and I love the hell out of him!
#9
We were putting away the groceries when I see her take a new jar of salsa, open it, and put it in the fridge. I asked her why she did that and she said:
“It says right on the jar to refrigerate after opening.”
I swear, she’s smart as a whip most of the time.
#10
She was at the store and I remembered I needed some whole chickens for the weekend, so I call her up and ask her to grab a few. Over the phone she says “the big kind or the little kind?” “I dunno, the largest you can find, it doesn’t really matter”. She shows up at the house with two 25 pound turkeys. Her entire life she believed turkeys were just larger chickens.
#11
When she answered the door in a s**y negligee…when I was bringing my parents over for dinner. She then swore, ran off, came back and apologised to my parents for swearing then ran off again.
#12
When she told me, quite seriously, that wind is made by trees.
You know, because they sway around which pushes the air around and thus makes wind.
She was not kidding.
#13
When he gorilla glued his bathroom door shut to see if he could break it down. He couldn’t.
#14
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALASKA ISN’T NEXT TO HAWAII ” Followed by, ALASKA is connected to Canada??
#15
Very early into our relationship she said something to the effect of, “I miss living in the mountains. When I lived in North Carolina, we had this beautiful mountain range… I think they called it the Rocky Mountains? Anyway… I wish we could go back sometime.”
We live in the Appalachian Mountains… Just a little north of where she grew up… It’s quite literally the same mountain range she saw as a kid…
#16
When I asked him to grab the “crushed red pepper” for my pizza, and he got offended. He asked me why i didn’t just say “the red flakes”, and that I was just trying to sound smarter than him.
#17
My boyfriend insisted that cooking certain things in the microwave was a hassle since you had to “stop them early” because the microwave only cooked in 30-second increments. I’m not sure what he thought all the numbers were for, but his life changed that day.
#18
My husband told me that he never slept in hotel sheets because they “never washed them”. So instead, he would wrap himself up in the comforter and sleep in that. The big fluffy comforter…
#19
When she insisted that Kim Jong Un was the leader of North Carolina.
#20
I’ll speak for my wife.
Up until about 2 years ago (I’m 30) I honestly believed goats were the male version of sheep.
I still don’t live that down.
#21
My crazy ex girlfriend told me a story once about her very special car. See, she thought buying gas was for other people and that her car didn’t need it. Evidently she didn’t realize this wasn’t the case till one day, she had run out of gas on the side of the road. Her ex boyfriend had been filling and keeping her tank full, so she just assumed her car ran off the battery.
This was nearly 15 years ago, where the notion of an electric car was futurology.
#22
When the ex wife accused me of making up the word hypocritical after telling her that her actions were just that. “You think because you’re smart you can make up words to call me and I won’t notice?” One of those moments where you open your eyes really wide and take a moment to process what you’re hearing.
#23
I’ve posted this before, but it’s my favorite story.
In the middle of a conversation that was referencing Washington DC, he angrily stated that what I was saying was impossible, because people don’t live in Washington DC.
I stopped, wait what?
“No one lives in Washington DC, they aren’t allowed.”
Are you serious?
“Yeah, only the President and the secret service live there, in the White House.”
He was 26.
#24
We sat on the porch of her rented house during university, smoking. It was nighttime, the stars were out. I saw Venus, asked her why she thought that star was extra bright (hoping to drop my planetary knowledge.) She said maybe it’s closer to us than the moon. I said “What does that mean?” “Like it’s between us and the moon.” She then explained that she thought the stars float around and change their positions, and that they were small. I ran into her house, told all her housemates, and we informed her about stars. She’s a PhD scientist.
Edit: Biology. Cigarettes. As for it being rude of me to run in and tell her roommates, it was. But she didn’t beleive me, thought I was messing with her. Told her the sun is a star and she laughed and was like ‘now I KNOW you’re kidding..” Went inside to confirm this with her roommates (also good friends of mine) and we all had a good laugh. I’m no genius, can’t point out countries on a map. We all have our faults, I just thought this one was particularly funny especially given that she is a brilliant scientist now (this was in 2nd year).
#25
He told me there was a giant tsunami rolling in. We live in Arizona.
Edit: This story is about an ex. He was dead serious when he said tsunami. I googled the definition of tsunami and told him what it was and he proceeded to call me an arrogant b***h.
Shanilou Perera
Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.
