'If you eat all my pickles, I'm breaking up with you': 25 Serial daters share their weirdest dating requirements

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Sep 16, 2023 8:00 AM EDT

After you've been around the block a few times in the dating world, you realize that there are a few things about yourself that you're not willing to sacrifice. For some, their love of pickles is enough to break it off in a relationship and for others, it's a deal breaker if you're really into a guy and he can't swim. We do our best to simplify our love lives, but at a certain point, some things are more important to a person than a love interest. 

Serial daters have an especially acute problem with dating requirements. It seems like the more dates you go on, the more 'icks' you end up having and the higher standards you require for a potential mate. Next thing you know, you've got a laundry list of requirements that no living person could live up to. I guess it's time to increase the range on your Tinder profile to include that graveyard on the other side of town. For those of us who haven't RIPed our love life, we're still searching for that perfect fit in a partner– someone who is the glass slipper to our irregularly shaped foot. Scroll onward to read about some serial daters who have even weirder dating requirements than you do.

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    Font - Posted by u/Dawn OfLegion1 8 hours ago What's the weirdest dating requirement you have?
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    Font - pollypocketpussy · 3 hr. ago ITT: people not the word "weird" understanding Mine is you have to at least appreciate frogs a little. If you dislike frogs, I'm not interested.
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    Human body - tombebop 8 hr. ago Don't eat all the fully loaded nachos
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    Font - One-Internet-1982 - 3 hr. ago Not sure how weird it is, but my rule is that I pay for myself every step of the way until we decide to become a couple, then we can split the bills, or take turns treating each other etc if that is what we both choose.
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    Font - homeortravel - 49 min. ago Same reason I do this. There are guys that push to pay the bill on the date even after I offer. If I plan on seeing them again I let them pay if they insist. If I don't plan on seeing them again, I insist on paying
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    Font - New_Yesterday5751. 7 hr. ago My wife said she wouldn't swipe right on any one with a gym pic or dog because she didn't want to get up on weekend morning with a hangover and need to do stuff
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    Font - m_nieto 6 hr. ago . If you eat all my pickles and put the empty jar back in the fridge I'm breaking up with you.
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    Font - ripped-grocery-bag- 4 hr. ago If you use your fingers to get pickles out of the jar, I'm breaking up with you.
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    Font - Smellmyhand. 6 hr. ago Not having the same name as my sister or my mom. Alternatively, my name is unisex and a girl with my name is a turn on
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    Font - YEEyourlastHAW. 2 hr. ago Taylor Lautner has entered the chat
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    Font - Phader24 edited 5 hr. ago 5 hr. ago. I can't date anybody who uses the phrase, "work hard, play hard"
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    Human body - Unlikely-Base-4989. 3 hr. ago I love it when they have a hyper fixation
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    Font - maybejustadragon - 2 hr. ago That's funny. I have ADHD and gfs would mad at me for being hyper fixated because I wasn't fixated on them.
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    Font - _hootyowlscissors - 5 hr. ago He should be as smart as/smarter than me. There's no bigger turnoff than a guy who is noticeably dumber and there's nothing hotter than a guy who is particularly intelligent.
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    Font - Ezira 3 hr. ago I have a weird thing for dudes explaining things to me. Not like "mansplaining", but like intimately explaining how whatever mechanism they just built works.
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    Font - _hootyowlscissors. 2 hr. ago Yep. Anyone speaking, in detail, about something they're passionate about can be hot (within reason).
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    Facial expression - CherryApple89 · 5 hr. ago They have to be a little bit pervy and a little bit weird.
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    Font - Amish_Cyberbully. 2 hr. ago If you haven't grown weird as you grow up then you're doing it wrong.
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    Font - arcsecond 6 hr. ago She should actually like me and want to do stuff with me. Some guys i know seem to be perfectly happy dating a woman who seems to simply tolerate their presence but not actually desire it.
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    Font - KBell090211- 2 hr. ago I think I'm the same. Idk. I want someone to curl up on the couch with me and watch my fav tv show because you're spending time with me and you wanna know what I'm into!
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    Font - BlackDwarfStar - 3 hr. ago If you only date men over six feet, I don't want to date you. Reason why this is weird: I'm over six feet.
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    Font - auntiepink007. 4 hr. ago Facial piercings and/or gauges. It's unfortunate that it gives me the icks because I know there are a lot of great people out there with them but they are a complete turn off for me.
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    Font - Glittering_Dust_92 - 3 hr. ago I don't really have a type but a big turn off for me would be a man with long nails, even if they are super clean. I don't know why it's just not for me.
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    Font - 10yearplanreject. 3 hr. ago Have to like cats
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    Font - RenegadeRabbit - 4 hr. ago Not a strict requirement but would be nice to marry someone who has a last name that begins with a particular letter so that my initials will still be the first three letters of my first name.
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    Font - The Late ThagSimmons 1 hr. ago Reciprocity. The older I get, the more I realize how important it is that they put in as much effort as I am.
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    Facial expression - I can't date anybody who uses the phrase "work hard, play hard"
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