I similarly refuse to date in my industry.  It’s a small group and they talk - I don’t need my boss knowing what I like to do in bed.  Also, I spend 50-70 hours a week with these idiots, I know what they’re like.  Not a single one of them is relationship material.

Amen to that, unless their career takes up a lot of their time.  (haven’t met one of those....yet)  I’m sure they’re out there, it prob has a lot to do with my geographical placement.

Actors. Forget it.

I broke up with someone because when they’d scoop butter from the tray, they wouldn’t do it smoothly. They’d leave a smashed looking mess and then spread the butter unevenly on their toast. I was looking to break up with them, and lumpy uneven butter in my tray was the magnificently petty reason that forced my hand. 

Men who drink gin. I used to joke* that my type was “tall skinny white boys who drink gin and don’t actually want to be with me”, but without fail, every guy who liked gin (and especially the ones who insisted that I just hadn’t had the ‘right’ gin yet) would get tired of me in short order, usually after blowing hot…

I’ve found that dudes who don’t smile in pictures generally have very weird hangups around masculinity. Like, smiling is weak or just for girls or something. I straight up do not trust men who won't smile for photos.

I won’t date someone who works in tech. No story, I work in tech and find most of the men I work with/who are in the same field fine enough as friends but somewhat repugnant as dating prospects. The attractive guys in tech are the biggest douches on earth and the unattractive guys are...pretty damn hard to talk to…

Not going to lie, I broke up with someone once because he had HORRIBLE breath and I couldn’t figure out a nice way to tell him. It wasn’t just a one-off, “I ate too much garlic” thing, either. It was full blown halitosis. I couldn’t stand to kiss him. I know I should have told him, but instead, I just said that I…

Calling them “the local Becky” seems pretty dismissive of people who’re being used for their uterus by some deceitful prick, who will likely come out and dump them once the kids leave home. There is no pit of hell deep enough for those assholes and their sense of male entitlement.

It is maybe petty, maybe not depending on who you ask. Under no circumstances will I date a Republican.

I have dated men who are shorter than me, men who are balding, men with small nail beds (lol @attica) and many more with these types of deal breakers. None of that bothered me. But when a dude says he’s a DJ, I nope the FUCK out of there. 

my best friend from college let a couple of very promising relationships fizzle out because the person preferred Lennon to McCartney.

Men with long stringy hair pulled back into a ponytail. I went on a date with a perfectly nice guy but could not get over his hair (at the time, longer than mine.) A friend suggested that if the relationship progressed, I could always encourage him to cut it, but all I could think was, he looks in the mirror every day…

Until it got sorted out by WHO later...? 

I’ve broken up with people for a LOT of reasons but one guy in recent history - we slept together on the fourth date. I asked him - so what’s our status? For instance, I wanted to know if we were now exclusive. He called me every day and took me out a lot in a short period of time, so I really figured once we started…

You asked for petty...

Nail biting is a non-starter. Aside from the fact that everyone by now should know that it’s basically just eating biohazards, I start to imagine his stubby, pink, cuticle-shredded fingers on my body-ody-ody and I literally gag.

You would surprised how many deal breakers one has a divorced just-turned 60 woman. Petty or not, I have a lot though to be fair, some have always been in place, such as cowboy boots, Wrangler jeans and any beard that exceeds the actual chin. Those have lasted forty+ years. But others are less petty, i.e Republicans…

Oh shut up. It’s a different kind of relief, but even those of us who don’t feel pain when walking down stairs and can sleep on our stomachs appreciate taking our bras off. We don’t have back pain, but it doesn’t mean the band or straps or edges of the underwire aren’t uncomfortable by the end of the day.

Sounds about right. Even tiny modern apartments have really nice appliances because they have to justify charging 50% more rent than tiny older apartments. (I had to find a new apartment recently, can you tell?)