‘I Got The Ick’: Redditors Report Dating Ick Activations That Made Them Nope Right Out Of The Date

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Eleonora Bader
May 19, 2023 8:00 PM EDT

The dreaded ick… the moment you look at your potential romantic interest and think, 'Oh no. Not this again'… everyone experiences the ick at one point or another, and each time it's something different about a person that makes you want to crawl into a hole and hide until they've forgotten about your existence. You'll know you've got the ick when their quirks are irritating, you feel repulsed by the way their mouth twitches when they smile, and when their habits are just downright annoying.

It's a frustrating part of the dating process, oh well. The ick nudges us toward the right partner in the end. It's the moment you realize you just gotta move forward, end it, and give someone else a chance. Below you'll find a hilarious Reddit thread with answers that genuinely made our jaws drop. What was the question that prompted such replies? The good old, 'Redditors, have you ever gotten an "ick" from a potential partner or love interest that instantly killed your attraction to them? If so, what happened?' question. Yup, we've got a few replies of our own.

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    Font - Posted by u/th3dankmemer 17 hours ago Redditors, have you ever gotten an "ick" from a potential partner or love interest that instantly killed your attraction to them? If so, what happened?
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    Font - noteveni 14 hr. ago He bullied someone in front of me. Instant disgust ↑ 1.8k Reply Share
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    Font - HalfBeatingHeart - 16 hr. ago They invited me over for dinner, and to clean the table they just slung the food off the plates across the kitchen floor for the pack of dogs they had to fight over. 12.5k Reply Reply Share 2
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    Font - executeablefiend · 16 hr. ago Making spills / messes and leaving it for long periods of time without cleaning it up. like months. 18.7k Reply Share
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    Font - jamesinthehood 16 hr. ago She asked for my chapstick and then put it on her dog. 12.6k Reply Share
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    Font - lookssharp 15 hr. ago edited 6 hr. ago My brief GF 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
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    Font - 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.
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    Font - Edit: Just to clarity before it becomes too man vs woman. 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. Reply Share 7.8k
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    Font - Speech Distinct8793 16 hr. ago 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. Had the audacity to say "let me call my mom" when I mentioned I was a little hungry. 4853 853 Reply Share
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    Font - noteveni · 4 hr. ago It was like 7-8 years ago, but the gist of it is that I worked at a restaurant as a chef, very high end place. He was a server I had been flirting with. He had to train a kid on serving who had been a busser for a while. The kid was super sweet, really nervous and excited. Kid takes trash out
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    Font - before his shift and gets a few raindrops on his shirt, a grey button down. This aschole yells at him about being unprofessional and unpresentable and stupid, does a sh't job training him, and I found the kid crying later.
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    Font - Yeah, asshole server got fired a month or two later for coming in wasted. Dodged a bullet there. Best part is I actually started dating the kid (he was 24 at the time and I was 29, we started dating at 25/30) a year or so later, we've been together six years in September and he's
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    Font - wonderful. So yeah, I'm pretty happy about how all that shook out. ↑ 271 ↓ Reply Share somnusqq · 4 hr. ago That is so cute. 67 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - 11_Jay 15 hr. ago . She was "best friends" with another girl who she constantly spoke shit about when said friend wasn't around. 14.3k Reply Share
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    Font - ctrlALTdeleted 716 · 14 hr. ago Literally every single problem she had was someone else's fault. Even when there was proof it was her fault she would argue non stop that it was someone else's. She got in a car wreck and called insurance over and over
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    Font - again to tell them that it was the other person's fault. They checked the computer in her car because it saved her speed she was going right before the wreck. It told them everything they needed to know and she STILL denied it. 4.8k Reply Share
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    Font - GetInMyBellybutton. 14 hr. ago In college I was seeing a girl who lived in 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
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    Font - 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
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    Font - 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 because she saw the text message exchange happen in the reflection of a
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    Font - mirror when they were in the same room. I was close with 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.
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    Font - Kixion · 14 hr. ago Making assumptions about me on the first day "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
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    Font - left. They messaged me what my problem is so i wrote back something to the effect of; "A boy like you wouldn't understand even if I told you" Reply Share 4 5.7k 5.7k
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    Font - jbartlettcoys 16 hr. ago. edited 16 hr. ago . Maybe not instantly ki"ed, but a really lovely woman telling me in a sincere voice that she loved me, 3- 4 hours after meeting her, freaked me the fuck out in a way that I guess could reasonably be described as "the ick".
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    Font - In no way was the statement couched either, just straight up "I love you". Think I responded "...no, you don't" 10.2k Reply Share
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    Font - imlivinginurwall. 15 hr. ago she constantly thought everyone wanted to fuck her all the time, even strangers 2.2k Reply Share
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    Font - letsjakeonit 15 hr. ago This thread is saving my marriage 4.8k Reply Share
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    Font - choccymilkaddict. 16 hr. ago. edited 13 hr. ago 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
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    Font - 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 jewellery onto me despite my protests. He asked what I wanted to order for food, then ignored me and ordered me something else and got frustrated I didn't eat it all. He
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    Font - referenced being arrested, made me guess what for, and when I refused to guess for not knowing him well enough he said GBH. 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
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    Font - got my knee-high boots, slipped them onto my feet and zipped them up and said "you should always be treated like a goddess... My Morticial Addams". ALL ONE DATE. 4 8.9k Reply Share
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    Font - 00 Clubblendi 18 hr. ago They started calling themselves "poor" before humble bragging about making $200k a year and owning two houses that their parents bought for them. Reply Share 13.7k
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    Font - 16 hr. ago On a second date with a guy I liked. I mentioned that before we sleep together we should talk about birth control. He said something like, "Well, that's totally your responsibility." I said good night and good riddance. 43.9k Reply Share _O---
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    Font - ethereal_empress · 18 hr. ago Over confidence. Had one guy who I was on a first date with, he was nice enough at first. But then he started bragging that I should be happy that he chose to drive one hour to see me, and that he had other chicks he could've seen instead. He was overly confident that I was in love with him. I noped out so fast!
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