Deal Breakers.

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ww_21

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I believe we all have them, deal breakers who will make us rapidly lose interest in a person we have taken a romantic liking to. I am curious what are some of your deal breakers? Mine are:

- Don't lie to me.

- Do not speak to me as if I'm an idiot.

- It's a huge turn off if you flirt with every other female in sight.

- I will lose every interest if I find out you are a double crosser (trying to date multiple people at once)

- Profanity is a huge turn off.

- Bad spelling and grammar annoy me.

There are perhaps many more but I'd rather not get into it. These are just the major ones for me.
 
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- Insincerity
- Profanity
- Rudeness and/or cruelty to others, especially (but not limited to) women, children, service employees, etc.
- Arrogance
- Excessive Materialism
 

just_monicat

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- Insincerity
- Profanity
- Rudeness and/or cruelty to others, especially (but not limited to) women, children, service employees, etc.
- Arrogance
- Excessive Materialism
a few more, in addition to those:

+a rather causal relationship with personal hygiene. reckless disregard for managing one's resources (evidence of destructive habits and lifestyle)

+makes most decisions as if tomorrow will never come - lives in complete denial of the future and the value of decisions that delay gratification

+won't go outside, go places, or leave the couch for that matter. won't try anything new.

+negativity, whiny and lives in victim mentality. blames ex-gf and everyone else for their bad experiences. complains but will do nothing to improve one's circumstances

+unwilling to accept my (sexual) purity standards, either outright or through subtle attempts of manipulation

+claims christianity, but clearly picks and chooses what parts of the bible he chooses to follow, often attempting to justify why he can ignore other parts. or claims christian, but missing any real evidence of fruit. *finds bible on shelf with a 1/4" of dust on it*

+poor communication skills - lacks the courage to be honest with me, resolve conflict or even express himself.

+selfish of spirit - what can you do or be for me? everything is seen through the filter of how i can make his life better. also, cannot compromise.

+moodiness, crankiness, and overall mercurially unstable

+aggressive, prone to anger and jealousy - i simply *cannot* deal with yellers, loud and angry outbursts and full-grown men acting like temper-tantrum-throwing-children.
 

mystdancer50

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I believe we all have them, deal breakers who will make us rapidly lose interest in a person we have taken a romantic liking to. I am curious what are some of your deal breakers? Mine are:

- Don't lie to me.

- Do not speak to me as if I'm an idiot.

- It's a huge turn off if you flirt with every other female in sight.

- I will lose every interest if I find out you are a double crosser (trying to date multiple people at once)

- Profanity is a huge turn off.

- Bad spelling and grammar annoy me.

There are perhaps many more but I'd rather not get into it. These are just the major ones for me.
Pretty much the same for me. :) I also include drinking alcohol, even one, as I am avidly against drinking alcohol; no smoking anything...except for meats ;) ; any cruelty to animals/children; and anytime there is a violent reaction, no matter how minor (grabbing my arm roughly, slapping/hitting/punching, shoving, abusive words/actions/deeds, etc.) I'm out of there without a second thought.
 
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Excessive profanity
Smoking
Chronic condescension/degradation
Chronic unkindness or vengefulness
A bad temper
Lukewarm spirituality
 
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Jullianna

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- Anger issues
- Constant attempts to be seductive/talks about sex all the time
- Controlling
- A player
- Bad parenting (if they have a child)
- Uses scripture as a weapon/ploy rather than having righteous understanding of the same
- Uses lady "friends" he has sweet talked to spy on you or manipulate you
- Gossips about you and others
- Rude/Crude
- Continuously speaks badly of an ex
- Foolish/illegal behaviors
- Prejudice
- Inappropriate/hurtful "jokes" or remarks at the expense of others
- No interest in learning/trying new things or growing as a person
- No interest in taking care of himself/poor personal grooming habits
- Not a passionate follower of Christ
- Vain
- Smoker
- Addictive behaviors (drugs/alcohol/porn/gambling/gaming/etc)
- Treats/talks about/looks at other women inappropriately
 
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Dang reading these lists I have a lot to work on lol.

As for my own deal breakers, I am kinda simple:

1. Lady is not a virgin (not that I hate you if you are not, but merely I didn't put off sex so that I can fall for a woman that is all ready married to another man, and I define marriage as having sex with someone. Not gonna lie I am extremely jealous person in the realm of love interests and I somewhat expect a woman to be the same. Just as I think my ideal woman would not want me if I had sex with another woman prior to her so also I do not want a woman that has had sex with a man prior to me.)

2. Someone who is not direct/honest. What I mean by this is like how you goodly women are saying you want someone that will openly discuss and talk and not hide things/lie and thus theoretically we'd be able to solve any conflict simply through conversation. Some girls (and guys) like to play those annoying head games, and that is not what I desire. This isn't just a rule I have for potential dates, but also just for in-general-friendships. (Also just to clarify this directness is just on serious things. I wouldn't mind if a gal was a lil spontaneous or liked to pull pleasant surprises on me for instance birthday surprises, valentine's day spontaneity, etc. all that is okay to not be too direct so as not to ruin the goodly surpise. So when I mean someone who is not direct, I mean in terms of conversation about serious things. To sum it up; good surprises I like, bad surprises no thank you.)

3. Someone who is anti-Christian. Personally I am kinda new to the Bible and Christianity and am still learning, so if a girl isn't a Christian, that I do not mind so much since we could learn together. What I mean here by an anti-Christian girl is someone that is so totally against Christianity that they will never even give it a chance or they just constantly berate Jesus, the Bible, etc. Like I said I am kinda new to Christianity (not sure if I should even call myself a Christian, but I can say that I do like learning more about Christianity and it keeps giving me positive effects in my life so this is the religion I want to pursue.) So if a girl is like in that phase where I am where she just has genuine questions, then that is okay with me since we'd be on equal footing.

Besides these major factors, yes there are some little pet peeves I would have that are in common with what others have said here, but I personally am a pretty simple guy and since I have made many mistakes in my life anything besides the three above I can look past and we could work on together. For instance with smoking, I admit I am still a smoker (it's a very hard habit to kick!) So if I met a good gal that is a smoker that be okay with me, but I also am trying to kick the habit and don't want to be a smoker all my life, so if that girl is a smoker I would at least desire her to at least want to quit at some point in her life and maybe we could work on that problem together (though I personally am gonna try to kick smoking before seeking a mate because it seems all you good girls do not like smokers (and I thank you all for that cause it helps motivate me) lol so this might not be a big issue in the future.)

I think really what a lot of these lists can boil down to is that old sage advice Paul left us about being equally yoked. Basically I have many flaws right now so if a girl has the same flaws, that's okay with me because we're still equal and thus can either be content with our mutual flaws or help eachother as a team to overcome. If a girl transgresses the 3 Points above then we would not be equals, thus we would not be a good match and I'd probably just be better off being single, lol.
 
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Thalassa

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Fascism
Racism
Lack of intelligence and humour
Closed mind
Bad smell
Rudeness
Insincerity
 

rachelsedge

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They don't like milk
They don't like cats
They don't like breakfast food

I may add more serious ones later...but those are still kinda serious.

;)

(No but really)
 
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Donkeyfish07

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Nagging. That's my number one no no. As important as honesty is to me, I would rather be with someone who lies to me about everything than someone who nags about everything.
 
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DarlinNadia

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- Complete disregard for Teflon requiring low heat and non-abrasive utensils. Get outta my kitchen if you are intent on destroying my pots and pans.

- Separating bread the way it was born. Schloping it back together all haphazardly while making a sandwich as if it did not deserve the respect to have the crust to crust and top to top. (This makes me look a little OCD)

- Drinking and driving. Be stupid on your own time, don't involve others

- Obnoxious drunks at the Grill. Honestly, it's no one's fault but your own you burned your eyebrows off with your stupid grill trick.

- Belligerent drunks trying to prove some stupid point about politics or NASCAR, or other stupid topic ... Seriously? who cares?

- Drunks refusing to give up keys. I'll take you down, I'm not above knocking your block off to get your keys, clearly your friendship is less important to me than your will to win this fight, but I'll still win.

- I'm thinking Drinking is a deal breaker.... or irresponsible, childish, stupid drinking is the deal breaker, requiring a drink every day or each night.... just seems habitual to me, so yeah .. Excessive, necessary/required alcohol is a deal breaker for me.

- Loudness. Belligerence.. I dunno, since living with my daughter and removing the need to battle for attention - I seem to have low tolerance to loud people... it raises my blood pressure or something, perhaps God is making me meek in some situations that I was no meek in before... if not God, then customer service... avoidance or meekness.. hmmm. I need to think this through some more.

- Behind the wheel shouting - Even if the person cut you off... yelling at those in the car is not going to solve or change anything except the moods of the people in the car with you... so knock it off. No Tolerance for that.

Hmmm Deal Breakers are more like Things I need to pray about ... EXCEPT the teflon - cause that's just wrong.
 
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zaoman32

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-Smoking
-Dishonesty
-flirtatious behavior
-lacking of a sense of humor
-history of cheating
-lack of hygiene
-lukewarm christian

All in all looks are no big deal (no uglies please)
 

DuchessAimee

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Doesn't fight fair. (Meaning he brings up stuff from years ago that isn't relevant to the argument.)

Smoking more than the occasional pipe.

Getting drunk. I don't mind if he drinks, but getting drunk isn't something I go for.

Relevant addiction issues. If he's in recovery and is stable, I don't have an issue with that. But if he's still using, nope.

Lukewarm Christian.

Refuses to help out around the house or with the kids.

Behaves in a "know it all" way. It's especially bad when/if he actually knows NOTHING, but behaves otherwise.

Treats people badly or manipulates them.

If he won't accept my mom. She doesn't have a retirement, so I'll be taking care of her. If he's a big baby about it, adios.

If he disapproves of what I write.

And if his words are consistently hurtful, condescending, rude, selfish, or ungodly, he's gone.
 
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dohayw85

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Im sorry but I think so many of you on here are so judgemnetal, remember we are not hear to judge thats gods job!! And if your that choosey with eachother ull be single for a very long time as I am not even that choosey but I have had 45 dates in 2years and still single 50% I rejected and 50% rejected me! People are just way too choosey nowadays!!!
 
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Shouryu

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Im sorry but I think so many of you on here are so judgemnetal, remember we are not hear to judge thats gods job!! And if your that choosey with eachother ull be single for a very long time as I am not even that choosey but I have had 45 dates in 2years and still single 50% I rejected and 50% rejected me! People are just way too choosey nowadays!!!

*rubs chin*

Soo...is that your judgement that we are judgemental...?

*cackles and runs away*
 

Shawn2516

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Deal Breakers for me:

Violence.
Throws punches knowing I can't swing back.
Excessive screaming instead of talking/solving our issues.
Manipulation.
Smoking.
Drinking.
Has no heart for God.