He's/She's Just Not That Into You

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  • AmberGlitterSparkles
    AmberGlitterSparkles Posts: 699 Member
    Lack of ambition.
  • go_cubs
    go_cubs Posts: 1,183 Member
    No job

    And if they’re an only child
  • RDahling
    RDahling Posts: 27 Member
    Things that push me away from dating someone include:

    - co-dependence or excessive neediness (any good relationship needs time apart)
    - bad personal hygiene (bad breath, BO, thinking that washing your hair once every two weeks {that's ONCE every TWO weeks - name that tune!} is sufficient ... ewwww)
    - desperation (with or without the flop-sweat)
    - no ambition (have dated some women who claim to have dreams/goals and do nothing to achieve them - sad, really)
    - bad teeth (I currently live in Asia, and there are lots of pretty women who have the most egregious snaggle-teeth - I seriously worry about what would happen to my tongue if I kissed them - would it get hooked up or shredded or what?)
    - laziness/inactivity (I want someone I can hit the squash courts with or go hike a mountain or do some trail riding)
    - victim mentality (one thing about human beings is that the longer we live, the more baggage we have, but some people just can't learn to cope with their past {or worse, conflate the tiniest of events into a personal apocalypse}, and I'm not looking for a project to save)
    - ignorance (I can deal with stupidity - stupidity can be cured - but ignorance, not so much)
    - HYPOCRISY - oh this one really rattles my cage now that I think about it.
    - People who insist on taking pictures of food they ordered in restaurants instead of, oh, I don't know, EATING IT.
    - Instagram-based narcissism (wow, you took 100 photos of yourself in various poses and finally found one that looks good ... yes, you are total wife material)
    - People who duck-face for photos. Seriously? What the Hell is wrong with you?
    - 撒娇 (sājiāo) - this means acting like a spoiled child when you're an adult, usually to get your way or get attention. See comments above about neediness.
    - Cellphone addicts - no, I don't need to be the entire focus of every minute of every day, but if we can't have a conversation without you looking at your gd iPhone or eat a meal without you suffering DTs from not having it in easy reach ... yeah, we're not going anywhere.

    I'm sure I have a lot more, but these are just off the top of my head (as I try to avoid doing work).
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    RDahling wrote: »
    Things that push me away from dating someone include:

    - co-dependence or excessive neediness (any good relationship needs time apart)
    - bad personal hygiene (bad breath, BO, thinking that washing your hair once every two weeks {that's ONCE every TWO weeks - name that tune!} is sufficient ... ewwww)
    - desperation (with or without the flop-sweat)
    - no ambition (have dated some women who claim to have dreams/goals and do nothing to achieve them - sad, really)
    - bad teeth (I currently live in Asia, and there are lots of pretty women who have the most egregious snaggle-teeth - I seriously worry about what would happen to my tongue if I kissed them - would it get hooked up or shredded or what?)
    - laziness/inactivity (I want someone I can hit the squash courts with or go hike a mountain or do some trail riding)
    - victim mentality (one thing about human beings is that the longer we live, the more baggage we have, but some people just can't learn to cope with their past {or worse, conflate the tiniest of events into a personal apocalypse}, and I'm not looking for a project to save)
    - ignorance (I can deal with stupidity - stupidity can be cured - but ignorance, not so much)
    - HYPOCRISY - oh this one really rattles my cage now that I think about it.
    - People who insist on taking pictures of food they ordered in restaurants instead of, oh, I don't know, EATING IT.
    - Instagram-based narcissism (wow, you took 100 photos of yourself in various poses and finally found one that looks good ... yes, you are total wife material)
    - People who duck-face for photos. Seriously? What the Hell is wrong with you?
    - 撒娇 (sājiāo) - this means acting like a spoiled child when you're an adult, usually to get your way or get attention. See comments above about neediness.
    - Cellphone addicts - no, I don't need to be the entire focus of every minute of every day, but if we can't have a conversation without you looking at your gd iPhone or eat a meal without you suffering DTs from not having it in easy reach ... yeah, we're not going anywhere.

    I'm sure I have a lot more, but these are just off the top of my head (as I try to avoid doing work).

    Umm, good luck with your endeavor towards finding perfection. 😁😁
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  • Ninkasi
    Ninkasi Posts: 173 Member
    Bad hygiene. Mama’s boy.

    I love it when they're a mama's boy, I think it's the cutest thing ever ❤

    Yeek...I dated a mama's boy for a while, just long enough to realize what a train wreck our life together would have been. That was a horrible lesson. But like they say, every relationship is a lesson, even the bad ones. Maybe especially the bad ones!
  • SwannySez
    SwannySez Posts: 5,860 Member
    newmeadow wrote: »
    SwannySez wrote: »
    newmeadow wrote: »
    I smolder with rage when they're financially supporting their adult offspring and their grandchildren then they won't buy me a pair of front row tickets to the Barry Manilow concert.

    That's because you came and you gave without taking, but I sent you away.

    @newmeadow is Maggie?

    You're so mean. And it was Mandy. She was his dog. He wrote that song for her. Didn't you watch his interview on the Today Show?

    Time for fact checking...

    I'm not mean. At least not right now. :flowerforyou:
    The song was originally Brandy, not recorded first by Manilow, and thus not about Manilow's anything. He didn't write it, he only changed the name and covered it.
    The original writer has clarified that the song wasn't about a dog, that was only a ruse to get rid of a reporter.
    I've only watched the Today show as a captive in a dentist's chair. I find it incredibly shallow television.

    I have no idea about Mandy's or dogs or Barry Manilow, but I do know how to page @newmeadow aaaaand be unintentionally mean.

    Damn, Leut! Who knew you were the resident Manilow expert?
  • OkChargerFan2
    OkChargerFan2 Posts: 55 Member
    If they're selfish in bed.

    Truth!
  • SwannySez
    SwannySez Posts: 5,860 Member
    RDahling wrote: »
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    It's a work in progress. ;)
    81Katz wrote: »

    Umm, good luck with your endeavor towards finding perfection. 😁😁

    Thanks. With 7 billion people in the world, I'm sure I can find one or two that fit the bill. :smiley:

    You're single aren't you? 😂😆 kidding..

    Jo!! HAaahah I thought something very similar! What a list bro.

    Yes, I am single, but I'd rather be single and content (which I am) than dating and miserable, and I find it sad that people seem to think that being in a relationship requires some measure of selling out. There is a reason people have standards, and I've seen too many friends and family members in *kitten* relationships because they are afraid to be alone so they lower their standards and expectations, which is monumentally stupid. Relationships should make you happy; they should make you feel good, not stressed out and not like you compromised yourself, but too many people are quick to do that out of desperation, and then justify it to themselves in some fashion or other. That doesn't include when the investment model kicks in and people stay in relationships simply because of the amount of time they've spent in it - again, monumentally stupid.

    Think about all the relationships you've been in and think about how they impacted the subsequent relationship - you avoided the things you didn't like in previous relationships when going into the new one, and you kept an eye out for any appearance of these things (because people are just so full of artifice when first dating), so everyone has a list of things that are acceptable and unacceptable (and the unacceptable can be divided into hard and soft limits) when it comes to dating, and this list is based on past experience of what made you unhappy in previous relationships - why repeat the past if it made you so effing miserable the first time around?

    Dude. I'm tryin' to watch porn over here..you're killing my boner.

    The things I do for my friends...

    *commences fluffing*
  • RDahling wrote: »
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    It's a work in progress. ;)
    81Katz wrote: »

    Umm, good luck with your endeavor towards finding perfection. 😁😁

    Thanks. With 7 billion people in the world, I'm sure I can find one or two that fit the bill. :smiley:

    You're single aren't you? 😂😆 kidding..

    Jo!! HAaahah I thought something very similar! What a list bro.

    Yes, I am single, but I'd rather be single and content (which I am) than dating and miserable, and I find it sad that people seem to think that being in a relationship requires some measure of selling out. There is a reason people have standards, and I've seen too many friends and family members in *kitten* relationships because they are afraid to be alone so they lower their standards and expectations, which is monumentally stupid. Relationships should make you happy; they should make you feel good, not stressed out and not like you compromised yourself, but too many people are quick to do that out of desperation, and then justify it to themselves in some fashion or other. That doesn't include when the investment model kicks in and people stay in relationships simply because of the amount of time they've spent in it - again, monumentally stupid.

    Think about all the relationships you've been in and think about how they impacted the subsequent relationship - you avoided the things you didn't like in previous relationships when going into the new one, and you kept an eye out for any appearance of these things (because people are just so full of artifice when first dating), so everyone has a list of things that are acceptable and unacceptable (and the unacceptable can be divided into hard and soft limits) when it comes to dating, and this list is based on past experience of what made you unhappy in previous relationships - why repeat the past if it made you so effing miserable the first time around?

    Most of this is very well said
  • SwannySez
    SwannySez Posts: 5,860 Member
    SwannySez wrote: »
    RDahling wrote: »
    7815i17mar4i.gif

    It's a work in progress. ;)
    81Katz wrote: »

    Umm, good luck with your endeavor towards finding perfection. 😁😁

    Thanks. With 7 billion people in the world, I'm sure I can find one or two that fit the bill. :smiley:

    You're single aren't you? 😂😆 kidding..

    Jo!! HAaahah I thought something very similar! What a list bro.

    Yes, I am single, but I'd rather be single and content (which I am) than dating and miserable, and I find it sad that people seem to think that being in a relationship requires some measure of selling out. There is a reason people have standards, and I've seen too many friends and family members in *kitten* relationships because they are afraid to be alone so they lower their standards and expectations, which is monumentally stupid. Relationships should make you happy; they should make you feel good, not stressed out and not like you compromised yourself, but too many people are quick to do that out of desperation, and then justify it to themselves in some fashion or other. That doesn't include when the investment model kicks in and people stay in relationships simply because of the amount of time they've spent in it - again, monumentally stupid.

    Think about all the relationships you've been in and think about how they impacted the subsequent relationship - you avoided the things you didn't like in previous relationships when going into the new one, and you kept an eye out for any appearance of these things (because people are just so full of artifice when first dating), so everyone has a list of things that are acceptable and unacceptable (and the unacceptable can be divided into hard and soft limits) when it comes to dating, and this list is based on past experience of what made you unhappy in previous relationships - why repeat the past if it made you so effing miserable the first time around?

    Dude. I'm tryin' to watch porn over here..you're killing my boner.

    The things I do for my friends...

    *commences fluffing*

    :D

    I know. I know. You’re next. Get me a bottle of water. I gotta stay hydrated.
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  • mustacheU2Lift
    mustacheU2Lift Posts: 5,844 Member
    If he sends random messages via fb messenger every couple months....hes just not that into you.
  • mustacheU2Lift
    mustacheU2Lift Posts: 5,844 Member
    If he admits that in a matter of weeks or days youll be deleted from his accounts...hes not digging you.
  • mustacheU2Lift
    mustacheU2Lift Posts: 5,844 Member
    If he says he'll call and doesnt...its a dud.
  • SwannySez
    SwannySez Posts: 5,860 Member
    If she doesn’t send a friend request that includes a nude of herself with the words “Be my friend. FOREVER!” scrawled on it in red lipstick - or blood, who can tell? She is just not that into you.

    Lookin’ at you, @AgainWithTheSurfyPants...
  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
    RDahling wrote: »
    7815i17mar4i.gif

    It's a work in progress. ;)
    81Katz wrote: »

    Umm, good luck with your endeavor towards finding perfection. 😁😁

    Thanks. With 7 billion people in the world, I'm sure I can find one or two that fit the bill. :smiley:

    You're single aren't you? 😂😆 kidding..

    Jo!! HAaahah I thought something very similar! What a list bro.

    Yes, I am single, but I'd rather be single and content (which I am) than dating and miserable, and I find it sad that people seem to think that being in a relationship requires some measure of selling out. There is a reason people have standards, and I've seen too many friends and family members in *kitten* relationships because they are afraid to be alone so they lower their standards and expectations, which is monumentally stupid. Relationships should make you happy; they should make you feel good, not stressed out and not like you compromised yourself, but too many people are quick to do that out of desperation, and then justify it to themselves in some fashion or other. That doesn't include when the investment model kicks in and people stay in relationships simply because of the amount of time they've spent in it - again, monumentally stupid.

    Think about all the relationships you've been in and think about how they impacted the subsequent relationship - you avoided the things you didn't like in previous relationships when going into the new one, and you kept an eye out for any appearance of these things (because people are just so full of artifice when first dating), so everyone has a list of things that are acceptable and unacceptable (and the unacceptable can be divided into hard and soft limits) when it comes to dating, and this list is based on past experience of what made you unhappy in previous relationships - why repeat the past if it made you so effing miserable the first time around?

    :flowerforyou: buy a cat 😆
  • Overit1978
    Overit1978 Posts: 54 Member
    starring at the phone!!
  • IHaveMyActTogether
    IHaveMyActTogether Posts: 945 Member
    Selfish guys who lie or liars who are selfish


    Are you a lesbian?


    Or have you actually met a man that wasn't a liar?


  • mustacheU2Lift
    mustacheU2Lift Posts: 5,844 Member
    Selfish guys who lie or liars who are selfish


    Are you a lesbian?


    Or have you actually met a man that wasn't a liar?


    yes
  • SwannySez
    SwannySez Posts: 5,860 Member
    Selfish guys who lie or liars who are selfish


    Are you a lesbian?


    Or have you actually met a man that wasn't a liar?


    If she is, she’s like the worst lesbian ever.
  • mustacheU2Lift
    mustacheU2Lift Posts: 5,844 Member
    SwannySez wrote: »
    Selfish guys who lie or liars who are selfish


    Are you a lesbian?


    Or have you actually met a man that wasn't a liar?


    If she is, she’s like the worst lesbian ever.

    Im working on it sheesh so judgy.
  • SwannySez
    SwannySez Posts: 5,860 Member
    SwannySez wrote: »
    Selfish guys who lie or liars who are selfish


    Are you a lesbian?


    Or have you actually met a man that wasn't a liar?


    If she is, she’s like the worst lesbian ever.

    Im working on it sheesh so judgy.

    How many licks does it take to reach the tootsie roll center of a tootsie roll pop?
  • IHaveMyActTogether
    IHaveMyActTogether Posts: 945 Member
    Selfish guys who lie or liars who are selfish


    Are you a lesbian?


    Or have you actually met a man that wasn't a liar?


    yes

    To what? I'm guessing the first one, cause I never met anyone who could say yes to the second one.

  • mustacheU2Lift
    mustacheU2Lift Posts: 5,844 Member
    SwannySez wrote: »
    SwannySez wrote: »
    Selfish guys who lie or liars who are selfish


    Are you a lesbian?


    Or have you actually met a man that wasn't a liar?


    If she is, she’s like the worst lesbian ever.

    Im working on it sheesh so judgy.

    How many licks does it take to reach the tootsie roll center of a tootsie roll pop?

    Thats deeply personal.