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<h2>We&#39;ve probably all developed a deep, yearning crush on someone only to watch it fully combust as they&#39;re screaming at a waitress on her first day because she forgot to tell the chef to put salad dressing on the side...</h2><p>While it&#39;s nice to give people a second chance and not immediately write someone off because of one questionable first date move, there are some behaviors or opinions that are just complete dealbreakers in a romantic partner. If you&#39;re dating to find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you might have to be relatively selective about the red flags that creep up. Don&#39;t assume people will change, run at the first sign of doom!</p><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8takdg/what_is_something_that_instantly_killed_the_crush/">Reddit</a> user asked, &quot;What is something that instantly killed the crush you had on someone?&quot; people were ready to share the moment all of the romantic energy officially left the room.</p><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>Started dating a girl, after a couple of weeks I went to her house and it was a disgusting mess. Trash piled up everywhere, old food and fast food drinks. They had a bunch of animals and didn&rsquo;t clean up after them when they ate, there was rotten wet food all over the floor and walls. - Boyburnsgrey</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>He argued with the waiter because they didn&rsquo;t stock &ldquo;Cabernet&rdquo;, only Cabernet sauvignon. He insisted <em>just Cabernet</em> was a thing.</p> <p>Now, I don&rsquo;t know any better myself, but I know I wouldn&rsquo;t get along with someone so convinced he&rsquo;s right that he&rsquo;d argue with the man who literally serves wine for a living. - tonybenwhite</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>She was telling me her boyfriend issues then casually mentioned he was married &quot;like her last boyfriend. - ToyVaren</p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>She told me all about her fantastic exciting life, but the more I got to know her, the more holes I noticed in her tales.</p> <p>Turned out she was just an adept pathological liar, and I literally didn&#39;t know her at all. The girl she had painted a picture of, across 3 weeks and multiple dates was entirely fictional.</p> <p>The magic died when I asked about a small inconsistency, giving her the benefit of the doubt, and she blew up at me, turned everything I had told her about my life into an attack on my character, and then acted as if she said it for my benefit. All that just to deflect from my question. - TheNoidedAndroid</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>I had a crush on a customer at my job. Then I found out he was dating (and later married) &ldquo;the popular girl&rdquo; from my high school class. I can now talk to him without blushing. It was amazing how instant it was. - vodkankittens</p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>He picked his nose and wiped it on a door handle.</p> <p>People were watching. - crochetprozac</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>It took a while but I finally balls&#39;d up and told her I had a crush on her.</p> <p>She said, quote, &quot;Yeah, lots of people do.&quot; - Captain_Shrug</p> </blockquote><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>Complete and utter laziness.</p> <p>There was a girl in my class once I was crushing on mad hard. She was real cute and I didnt have the courage to actually have a conversation with her. Fast forward to the end of the semester, we are doing a group project and we wind up in the same group. After days and days of trying to find a good time for all of us to meet , we eventually meet at the library just a few days before the project is due. I&#39;m already mad going in, because I&#39;ve been ready to get started for a while now. She shows up , sits down , and contributes nothing the entire time.</p> <p>Doesn&#39;t chime in with anything useful , doesn&#39;t offer to do anything, just sits there. We eventually agree to do our own parts on our own and bring it all together later on. She was supposed to do a few slides and nothing more. I dont think she even had to research anything, just take what we already did and make it look good. The night before, she still doesn&#39;t contribute a goddamn thing and I ended up having to BS her slides last minute. - therealjoshua</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>She casually mentioned how many guys she has dated to get free perks.</p> <p>She called it <em>breakfast, lunch, dinner.</em></p> <p>And that&acute;s exactly what it was. She would set up multiple dates on the same days, so she would be wined and dined. - sothisismylifehuh</p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>Saw him at a family reunion -TheSaltyBarista</p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m an engineering major and so is this guy and his roommate. His roommate is struggling but he doesn&#39;t want to help him. So I help his roommate and he just hovers nearby and then scoffs and then says to his roommate, &quot;being taught engineering material by a girl, you&#39;re so stupid.&quot; TBF, they are both foreign exchange students so the culture is probably different but the fact that he wouldn&#39;t spare a minute for his roommate/friend and then spoke as if girls are incapable engineers made it really hard to like the guy. I hardly even hung out with him by the time last semester ended. - rillakachi</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>I had the beginnings of a crush on a guy I&#39;d met through mutual friends, started hanging out and getting to know each other a little bit. Hung out with him and his friends at a bowling alley and he and his friend started basically beating the sh*t out of each other for no reason, pretty positive he did it to &#39;impress&#39; me. I didn&#39;t like that at all so was already mentally on my way out, and then he sent me a text saying he was falling in love with me after three days, <em>right</em> after I mentioned that we should take it slow. Nope nope nope - SeriesOfAdjectives</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>Had a crush on a girl on/off for like 3 years in high school. We were great friends for the whole way through though. Anyway during Christmas of my first year of college her sister sent me a Snapchat of this girl I liked lying on the floor, practically in tears, screaming &quot;IT&#39;S THE WRONG ONE&quot;</p> <p>I responded with something along the lines of &quot;oh what happened?&quot;</p> <p>Turns out her mom got her a PS4 for Christmas, but it was the Uncharted edition. She wanted The Last of Us edition. She liked both games and was going to get both of them anyway at some point. That&#39;s when 3 years of built up romantic feels just fell out of me like taco bell with laxatives. - GetInMyBellyButton</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>On our first date, he screamed at the waitress for taking too long (only about 5 minutes, plus they were busy) to bring out our dessert after we ordered. She kept apologizing even though she did nothing wrong, but he kept going on and on until she offered to comp our meal. As soon as she walked away he gave me the douchiest smile and said &ldquo;See that? With me, you&rsquo;ll always eat for free!&rdquo;</p> <p>I left what would&rsquo;ve been the total for my meal plus 20% as a tip for her when he wasn&rsquo;t looking. I was totally planning on a second date right up until that moment, glad I dodged that one. - [deleted]</p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>Guy I had a crush on said &ldquo;I&rsquo;m so sick of this &lsquo;round earth&rsquo; bullsh*t.&rdquo; - stocar</p> </blockquote><h2> </h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

15 people share the moment that instantly killed their crush on someone.

We&#39;ve probably all developed a deep, yearning crush on someone only to watch it fully combust as they&#39;re screaming at a waitress on her first day because she forgot to tell the chef to put salad dressing on the side...While it&#39;s nice to give people a second chance and not immediately write someone off because of one questionable first date move, there are some behaviors or opinions that are just complete dealbreakers in a romantic partner. If you&#39;re dating to find someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, you might have to be relatively selective about the red flags that creep up. Don&#39;t assume people will change, run at the first sign of doom!So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;What is something that instantly killed the crush you had on someone?&quot; people were ready to share the moment all of the romantic energy officially left the room.1. Started dating a girl, after a couple of weeks I went to her house and it was a disgusting mess. Trash piled up everywhere, old food and fast food drinks. They had a bunch of animals and didn&rsquo;t clean up after them when they ate, there was rotten wet food all over the floor and walls. - Boyburnsgrey 2. He argued with the waiter because they didn&rsquo;t stock &ldquo;Cabernet&rdquo;, only Cabernet sauvignon. He insisted just Cabernet was a thing. Now, I don&rsquo;t know any better myself, but I know I wouldn&rsquo;t get along with someone so convinced he&rsquo;s right that he&rsquo;d argue with the man who literally serves wine for a living. - tonybenwhite 3. She was telling me her boyfriend issues then casually mentioned he was married &quot;like her last boyfriend. - ToyVaren 4. She told me all about her fantastic exciting life, but the more I got to know her, the more holes I noticed in her tales. Turned out she was just an adept pathological liar, and I literally didn&#39;t know her at all. The girl she had painted a picture of, across 3 weeks and multiple dates was entirely fictional. The magic died when I asked about a small inconsistency, giving her the benefit of the doubt, and she blew up at me, turned everything I had told her about my life into an attack on my character, and then acted as if she said it for my benefit. All that just to deflect from my question. - TheNoidedAndroid 5. I had a crush on a customer at my job. Then I found out he was dating (and later married) &ldquo;the popular girl&rdquo; from my high school class. I can now talk to him without blushing. It was amazing how instant it was. - vodkankittens 6. He picked his nose and wiped it on a door handle. People were watching. - crochetprozac 7. It took a while but I finally balls&#39;d up and told her I had a crush on her. She said, quote, &quot;Yeah, lots of people do.&quot; - Captain_Shrug 8. Complete and utter laziness. There was a girl in my class once I was crushing on mad hard. She was real cute and I didnt have the courage to actually have a conversation with her. Fast forward to the end of the semester, we are doing a group project and we wind up in the same group. After days and days of trying to find a good time for all of us to meet , we eventually meet at the library just a few days before the project is due. I&#39;m already mad going in, because I&#39;ve been ready to get started for a while now. She shows up , sits down , and contributes nothing the entire time. Doesn&#39;t chime in with anything useful , doesn&#39;t offer to do anything, just sits there. We eventually agree to do our own parts on our own and bring it all together later on. She was supposed to do a few slides and nothing more. I dont think she even had to research anything, just take what we already did and make it look good. The night before, she still doesn&#39;t contribute a goddamn thing and I ended up having to BS her slides last minute. - therealjoshua 9. She casually mentioned how many guys she has dated to get free perks. She called it breakfast, lunch, dinner. And that&acute;s exactly what it was. She would set up multiple dates on the same days, so she would be wined and dined. - sothisismylifehuh 10. Saw him at a family reunion -TheSaltyBarista 11. I&#39;m an engineering major and so is this guy and his roommate. His roommate is struggling but he doesn&#39;t want to help him. So I help his roommate and he just hovers nearby and then scoffs and then says to his roommate, &quot;being taught engineering material by a girl, you&#39;re so stupid.&quot; TBF, they are both foreign exchange students so the culture is probably different but the fact that he wouldn&#39;t spare a minute for his roommate/friend and then spoke as if girls are incapable engineers made it really hard to like the guy. I hardly even hung out with him by the time last semester ended. - rillakachi 12. I had the beginnings of a crush on a guy I&#39;d met through mutual friends, started hanging out and getting to know each other a little bit. Hung out with him and his friends at a bowling alley and he and his friend started basically beating the sh*t out of each other for no reason, pretty positive he did it to &#39;impress&#39; me. I didn&#39;t like that at all so was already mentally on my way out, and then he sent me a text saying he was falling in love with me after three days, right after I mentioned that we should take it slow. Nope nope nope - SeriesOfAdjectives 13. Had a crush on a girl on/off for like 3 years in high school. We were great friends for the whole way through though. Anyway during Christmas of my first year of college her sister sent me a Snapchat of this girl I liked lying on the floor, practically in tears, screaming &quot;IT&#39;S THE WRONG ONE&quot; I responded with something along the lines of &quot;oh what happened?&quot; Turns out her mom got her a PS4 for Christmas, but it was the Uncharted edition. She wanted The Last of Us edition. She liked both games and was going to get both of them anyway at some point. That&#39;s when 3 years of built up romantic feels just fell out of me like taco bell with laxatives. - GetInMyBellyButton 14. On our first date, he screamed at the waitress for taking too long (only about 5 minutes, plus they were busy) to bring out our dessert after we ordered. She kept apologizing even though she did nothing wrong, but he kept going on and on until she offered to comp our meal. As soon as she walked away he gave me the douchiest smile and said &ldquo;See that? With me, you&rsquo;ll always eat for free!&rdquo; I left what would&rsquo;ve been the total for my meal plus 20% as a tip for her when he wasn&rsquo;t looking. I was totally planning on a second date right up until that moment, glad I dodged that one. - [deleted] 15. Guy I had a crush on said &ldquo;I&rsquo;m so sick of this &lsquo;round earth&rsquo; bullsh*t.&rdquo; - stocar  

We&#39;ve probably all developed a deep, yearning crush on someone only to watch it fully combust as they&#39;re screaming at a waitress on her first day because she forgot to tell the chef to put salad dressing on the side...  While...