It ain't an easy thing to do for the person pulling the plug and, obviously, it's shit for the person being dumped but sometimes it has to be done.
A thread on Reddit this week has focused on breaks up, specifically what drives people to end relationships, by asking, 'What supremely annoying habit did an ex have that ended up being the deal breaker?'
Here are 13 of the best replies, you'll probably be able to relate to a few of them.
"She had one volume when speaking. It made eating out at nice restaurants uncomfortable." - JustXed
"Baby talk. Constantly speaking to me as if I was an infant... even in public. God that was annoying. I'm no grammar nazi but instead of saying , "I'm," he would say "am." For example. "Am tired giggly goo. Am going to work sweet treat lady loo. Awww am missing my beetle beauty baby." Kill me." - Festeringtrolley
"He was kinda quirky but whatever we all are right? Took me awhile to notice that he brought up my sister in our conversations a lot & realized the dude was full stop in love with her. That was one habit I couldn't support." - --fernwehrn--
"My ex would repeat things I laughed at over and over again like a child to get a reaction. Sooo annoying" - Sw3gLurd
"Finish episodes of Netflix without me." - BallinBrown23
"She kept comparing me to her exes, one who was my college roommate at the time." - Closer-To-The-Sun
"He wouldn't let old stuff go. Every mistake I'd ever made was held over me. Just can't bear weight like that. It's demoralizing." - ughfup
"Every like other like word like was like like, like you know?" - fishl3gs
"He tickled me all the damn time. I HATE being tickled. When I finally told him that I hated it, he got mad because I was mad at him. Eventually he said he would stop, and I thought I had nothing to worry about. Afterwards, he would still tickle me and try to cover it up with something like 'I'm just feeling you' or 'I'm just holding you.' No! You are twiddling your fingers lightly against my skin!" - linniebaby
"Going through my phone when I wasn't around because she always assumed I was cheating on her." - Nigelrover
"Cheating on me. Tends to get annoying the longer it goes on." - keeper_of_keys
"Him almost every time he called me: "Do you miss me?" Me: "This is the third time you've called me today and you stayed the night at my house last night. So... no."" - mrpoopiepants
"She had this weird fetish. Where she would dress like herself, and be a bitch all the time." - BLARGITSMYOMNOMNOM
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