20 People Share Petty Reasons They Broke Up With Their Partners
Some of them are so out there.
Some breakups happen over cheating, distance, or big life changes. Others happen because someone chews peas one at a time, smells like cooking oil, or texts with too many ellipses.
This roundup pulls together a string of petty, funny, and oddly relatable reasons people decided they were done. The stories come from a Reddit thread asking, “What’s the pettiest reason you’ve rejected someone?” and the answers range from harmlessly ridiculous to surprisingly understandable.
From bad socks to tiptoe walking, the list gets stranger with every entry. Read on.
1. Oh, a rebel at heart.
"They ate their peas individually."
-u/DTownForever
2. Sideways?
"She ate a banana sideways. She would hold it horizontally, peel it, and take bites from the side."–u/peazley
CBS3. Sometimes, you just have the wrong name...
"He had the same name as a horrible ex. It bothered me every time I said the name."
-u/pinecity21
4. Oil smell
"He smelled like cooking oil or something weird, and his whole house did. It was overpowering. I couldn't do it."
-u/GalaxygirlWoW
5. Bad kisser
"Dude kissed me open-mouthed with relaxed lips. It wasn't meant as a makeout kiss. He just opened his mouth, smashed his face into mine, then pulled back."
-u/kitcat7898
6. The name...
"She had the same name as my mom. I just… couldn’t."
-u/Valcutio
7. Phil and Lil
"His name was Phil. My name is Lil."
-u/fizzywiggle
8. Must have good socks...
"Not me, but a girl I hung out with in high school once dumped a boyfriend because she didn't like his socks. She's married with two kids now. Her husband's got mad sock game, obvi."
-u/PunchSploder
9. Text etiquette
"I once stopped talking to a girl because she kept putting '...' everywhere in texts."
-u/rahiq
Also, the same kind of post-breakup tension shows up in the AITA where OP denied a pet-friendly apartment to a friend after breaking up.
10. Guess all those bones aren't proof enough
"She was 100% convinced that dinosaurs didn't exist."
-u/SixGunChimp
11. Too many
"He texted me too many photos of his eggs Benedict in the morning."
-u/Natarenec
12. Don't knowwwww...
"Every time I asked what she would like to do, it was an annoying 'I don’t knowwwwww.'"
-u/raoulduke223
Don't you dare talk about my sunsets...
"He said the sunsets in my state weren’t good."
-u/aradilla
14. She didn't care much about dehydration
"She didn't drink water."
-u/Cousin_Carl
Petty so far...
WE TV16. Well, he needed to emphasize things...
"He used too many exclamation points."
-u/cherry_latte
17. Not nice
"She gave me a hug, and a booger that was stuck to her nose got on my shirt. For some reason, I never recovered. It's been 10 years, and I still haven't forgotten."
-u/Cpt_Howl
18. Wow
"She didn’t like my new haircut."
-u/Gomichi
19. Funny walk
"He would only walk on tiptoes. There was no medical reason; he just tiptoed about like a burglar in a cartoon."
-u/fja203
20. Dog walking
"They wouldn’t let their dog walk when they walked their dog. They would carry the poor little guy around."
-u/burglicious
21. A promise is a promise
"We had promised to see the same movie together. When I showed up to go see the film, they had already seen it."
-u/polywha
Well, do you relate to these stories? One question arises: how did these people break up?
What did they list as a reason? The truth, or did they make something up? We guess it's the second option.
Because the truth would probably make them look a bit weird. And they wouldn't want that, right?
For another breakup fallout, see what happened when someone chose their ex’s disowned pup over her new puppy.
