“I looked in the mirror and said, ‘She’s hot... you can do this...’ I couldn’t.”

"Except it was a shockwave of the hot stench of the piss of an ungodly number of cats that pissed everywhere but the litter tray. I gagged and almost threw up.

I couldn't wrap my head around how any human could possibly tolerate or grow immune to that genuinely horrifying stench. Even my unfathomably horny 21-year-old self didn't care how hot she was. The odour blasting out of her open front door was far too revolting to set foot inside.

So, to answer the question: I didn't see a thing, because I never got past her front door."

"We were being playful, taking shots, goofing around, taking selfies, getting to know each other, etc. I went home with my friends. The next time I went to the same bar, she was there. We chatted, had a nice night, I got her number, and we started texting. We arranged to meet at the same bar, had some drinks, and went back to her place. She had one of the photos of the two of us printed out on an A4-sized sheet, framed, and hanging on her wall. It was the only thing hanging on the wall in her entire flat."

"This is the tamest thing in this thread but a major deal breaker for me too. Never met anyone who has 30 cats peeing everywhere but carpet in the bathroom is revolting."

"This was about 13 years ago. I had just moved to Los Angeles. I had made an online dating profile and, within two days of living out there, began talking to someone. We hit it off pretty quickly and, on our third date, we went to a restaurant near her apartment. She needed to drop by her place real quick to feed her dog and use the loo. While she was in the bathroom, I was playing with her dog and noticed a few DVDs on her coffee table. The top one was a DVD explaining Dianetics and the Church of Scientology.

While I don't consistently practise any type of religion, I had heard enough about Scientology to believe it wasn't for me. As I was sitting there, looking at this DVD case and trying to figure out how to extricate myself from the situation, she returned from the bathroom. She clocked what I was looking at and immediately said, 'Oh... Don't worry, they were offering a free breakfast, so I went for the breakfast, but they gave me this on my way out.'

I've been happily married to this woman for the past 11 years."