My Top 5 Silly Reasons for Dumping a Relationship
God knows I’ve had my own share of lame reasons for dumping relationships — some of the ones that might sound silliest to most are:
5. Poor manners. The dude hung over his salad like he hadn’t eaten in months and the guy at the next table was going to take his food.
4. Lip Issues - I’m not sure what it was, but the guy had this film that was constantly on his lips. It was just icky! Ewww. There was NO way in Hell I was gonna kiss THAT!
3. When Size Does Matter - I’m 5′7″ tall and having grown up with a tall father and short mother, I supposed it just seems normal to me that the woman be shorter. I tried to date shorter men a few times and it just wasn’t happening.
2. An Extra Value Meal Split for Two - When a date took me to the park for a nice romantic walk, I thought we were really going somewhere. Then we went to a fast food joint where he ordered the two cheese burger meal and ONE large drink for us to split. I didn’t even like the drink he ordered. I’d have happily purchased my own meal, but he wouldn’t hear of it.
And the number 1 silly reason I’ve ever dumped a relationship…
1. Dirty Car - When the guy opened the passenger door for me to get in for the date and fast food bags, pop cans and candy bar wrappers fell out all over the ground, I knew it was over before it began. At least he was concerned enough about the environment to pick the garbage up and throw it in the back floorboard.
Ok, your turn! What’s the lamest excuse you’ve ever had for ending a relationship?
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6 opinions for My Top 5 Silly Reasons for Dumping a Relationship
The Mineral Makeup Girl
Jul 17, 2007 at 9:43 am
I was told by a friend that she dumped a guy because he was slacking off in his career, and she needed a more motivated and successful guy. Sad, but the guy was one of the nicest people I’ve ever met.
My share - by surprising me as he visited me during my prom. God, I hate surprises.
Diva
Jul 17, 2007 at 5:26 pm
There was one who was short. Then the one who was too fat. Then there’s the one who dropped out of college, the pathological liar, and the womanizer…oh wait, that’s all the same person.
Barbara
Jul 17, 2007 at 10:54 pm
I think your reasons make perfect sense. Some of mine are the same as yours, I tried shorter guys too and it does not work for me, I need taller than me. I once dumped a guy that talked with his mouth full of food and once dumped a guy because the same dead bug was on his bathroom floor two weeks in a row when I visited his house. ICK
Hatsumomo
Jul 18, 2007 at 12:40 am
I don’t know, poor manners seems like a legitimate excuse for dumping. It goes along the lines of good hygiene and such. You need/want somebody with some home training.
noname
Sep 4, 2007 at 7:21 am
Hi, I’m a new reader.
My story is a little different. It’s the reasons I almost dumped a guy.
1. He was from the “wrong side of the tracks”, so to speak. From a very poor family, while I was from a solidly middle-class family.
2. He was a “grease monkey”, slang for an auto mechanic, (actually, just a “mechanic-in-training”, who seemingly had no interest in gaining any skills that wouldn’t contribute to his future career fixing cars.
3. Auto-mechanics are not, generally, upwardly mobile people. It’s very hard to support a family on their salary.
4. He was too young for me, in my estimation. I was 17, he was 16 (17 year old girls often don’t like guys younger than them).
5. He was always covered in grease, and he didn’t own any nice clothes. His hair was always a mess. His bedroom was a pig sty.
6. My parents didn’t like him–not because of his personality, but because he didn’t look good and came from a poor family.
7. He struggled in school, and didn’t know about current events in the world.
8. His friends were absolutely AWFUL.
Considering this list of his negative attributes, it seems absurd that I would have ever given him a chance. I certainly wasn’t desperate. I wasn’t the prom queen, but I had had my share of boyfriends, and I was selective in choosing who to go out with. But when I met “Mack”, I saw things in him that others didn’t see. I saw that he was intelligent, but that his intelligence hadn’t been nurtured by his family (he was quite neglected as child, as is turns out). I saw that he was a kind, considerate person, funny, witty, and friendly. He had never been presented with possibilities in life other than what his parents had taught him–that’s why his world view was so limited. He had no opinions about politics, religions, and other such issues because he knew nothing about any of those issues.
We started talking about things. I gave him things to read and engaged him in conversations about what was happening outside of his tiny little world (hey, when you’re a teen, you have time for that sort of thing, I guess). I introduced him to people whose lives were different than his own. I expanded his world, I guess you could say. It didn’t take long before he started growing intellectually and emotionally. He blossomed as a person.
We recently celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary. We have three children and he’s a law-enforcement officer. We have a nice house in the country and a good life. He’s college educated, a short-story author and a blogger.
So, that’s my story on the guy I almost dumped, for reasons that would have seemed rational at the time, but would have turned out, in retrospect, to be quite silly.
One other thing….
There were a few girls Mack had crushes on before he met me. He made his interest in them known (one at a time!), and was promptly shot down by all of them, being told he wasn’t their type or that he was “too much of a friend”. I’m glad those girls were so shallow and didn’t want to have anything to do with him–that left him free for me! And what about those girls? Well, one ended up getting pregnant by a guy who went to prison, another is a single mom living in a trailer park (last I heard), and the other, the girl who introduced me to him, who is now a neighbor of mine, has been married and divorced twice.
Oh, and my entire family loves him now :)
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