#GrossHygieneIssues #OverlookedHygiene #ExHygieneProblems
We’ve all been there – clinging to the memories of an ex, remembering the good times and conveniently overlooking all the gross hygiene issues that we had to put up with. Whether it’s the way they never washed their sheets or their questionable personal grooming habits, exes can sometimes be the epitome of hygiene nightmares. In this article, we’re going to delve into the grossest hygiene issues you may have overlooked in an ex, so you can learn from the past and avoid making the same mistakes in the future.
Here are some of the grossest hygiene issues you may have overlooked in an ex:
1. Dirty Sheets 🛏️
One of the most common hygiene issues that often gets overlooked in a relationship is the state of the sheets. Your ex may have had a habit of never changing their sheets, leaving them to accumulate dirt, sweat, and who-knows-what-else for weeks on end. This can lead to a breeding ground for bacteria, dust mites, and even bed bugs.
2. Questionable Personal Grooming Habits 🧼
Another hygiene issue that often goes unnoticed in a relationship is your ex’s personal grooming habits. Whether it’s their lack of regular showers, leaving their hair in the shower drain, or having an untamed, overgrown jungle of pubic hair – these issues can be major turn-offs and can also pose health risks.
3. Poor Oral Hygiene 🦷
Many people tend to overlook their partner’s oral hygiene habits, but it can be a major issue in a relationship. If your ex had a habit of rarely brushing their teeth or had chronic bad breath, it could have been a major source of discomfort and embarrassment.
4. Lack of Hand Washing 🧼
The importance of hand-washing cannot be overstated, especially in today’s world. If your ex had a habit of neglecting to wash their hands after using the bathroom or before meals, it could have been a major red flag for their overall hygiene habits.
5. Unkempt Living Space 🧹
The state of your ex’s living space can also be a major indicator of their hygiene habits. If they had a habit of leaving dirty dishes in the sink for days, piling up dirty laundry, or letting dust and grime accumulate on every surface, it may be a sign of a deeper issue with cleanliness and hygiene.
6. Foul Body Odor 🤢
Body odor is a common issue that many people tend to overlook in a relationship. If your ex had a persistent, unpleasant body odor that never seemed to be addressed, it could be a major hygiene issue that can impact your attraction and comfort levels in the relationship.
In conclusion, it’s essential to pay attention to your partner’s hygiene habits and address any concerning issues early on in the relationship. Grossest hygiene issues can lead to discomfort, embarrassment, and even potential health risks. By being mindful of these issues, you can avoid overlooking hygiene problems in future relationships and prioritize your own health and well-being.
So, what was the grossest hygiene issue you overlooked in an ex? Share your experiences in the comments below and let’s start a conversation on prioritizing hygiene in relationships. And don’t forget to check out our website for more informative articles on maintaining a healthy and happy lifestyle. Remember, your health and well-being should always be a top priority!
He never brushed his teeth.
“i dont like to brush my teeth bc it makes my gums bleed” as in therefore its not good for him
Didn’t seem to shake well or wash well so if I ever laid my head on his lap it reeked of piss.
He didn’t wipe well enough so he left a stanky ass smell everywhere
Well, not on purpose, but when we broke up, my family told me he smelled horrible. (I have zero sense of smell, so I had no clue).
He used to wipe the smegma off before asking me to put it in my mouth. Young naive me thought it was normal🤢
She had terrible breath. She was also very skinny. Looking back now, I’m pretty sure she was bulimic. I felt bad realizing that long after high school.
Y’all put up with some seriously fucked up shit. Sheesh…..
Eating earwax, biting off toenails and using them as floss 🫣🫠
*I’m reading some of these comments, and I’m wondering if some of you were very lonely or desperate….like wtf. Ew. Lol*
did not clean his house at all, i mean trash everywhere, no clean dishes, no spot was clear on countertops, and his bedroom was so cluttered there was only a trail clear to the bed
My long term ex had questionable hygiene. He showered a lot but ALWAYS forgot to wear deodorant and thought it was funny. His oral hygiene was the worst. For context we started dating when I was 22 and he was 27. He didn’t know he was supposed to brush his tongue when he brushed his teeth… and he NEVER flossed a single time in the 3 years we were together.
My most recent ex (a very attractive 35 year old) never brushed his teeth before bed. Literally not a single time in the 3 months we were together. He stayed at my house for a weekend and forgot his toothbrush and didn’t tell me for two days. I mentioned I had bought him an extra toothbrush and he goes “that’s good, I was about to use yours”. 🤮
He also got extremely sweaty, I mean literally was dripping all over me, when we had sex. I would take a quick body shower after but he never would. His bed would literally be soaked with sweat after doing the deed. Later found out he was cheating on me, which is even more disgusting. I also had to tell him to wash his throw blankets bc they smelled like sweat. I can’t imagine how many bodies’ bacteria was all over those blankets. His sweat also smelled weird to me… the first time we had sex I remember thinking there was a weird musty PB&J scent. It was him. 🤮
smoked too much and would cough up mucus all over the interior of his car…dried loogies all over the windshield and steering wheel. So gross
I didn’t know this until much later in the dating and put a stop to it. He always had musty funk shit odor when we were having sex, but he showered routinely, always washed well, and didn’t smell otherwise (we showered together time to time and we talked about it). He claimed to not know what was going on with the odor. It wasn’t unbearable, but it was definitely noticeable and gross.
We’re getting frisky in the bathroom, I pull his pants down… he says to let him clean up quickly. That’s nice!
He picks up a USED BATH CLOTH LAYING IN THE SHOWER FLOOR and wipes himself down. Crack included. Wtf dude?!
It was his sexy time wash cloth that he admitted to using multiple times in the week to “clean” with and then it just laid around in the shower the rest of the time. 🤢
She showered once a week sometimes longer and was very usual for her to go days on end without showering, didn’t change her panties or bras for weeks either.
Foot fungus.
He would re-use the same nasty, crusty socks until he wore holes in them. Same shoes weeks in a row until he wore them down.
It’s not because he didn’t have socks and shoes. He just reached for whatever was closest and when he took them off the night before, he would roll his socks into a ball and stuff them into his shoes. So the next day , there were his shoes with socks in them so fuck it , put them on again.
It’s about balance. I couldn’t find a way to tell him that after a long day he needed to take a shower because he had stinky dick. I didn’t want a shower because I always took one before a date. And take one in the morning too. His dick was always stinky on dates. It felt so disrespectful but he would cook me dinner and do all of the dating shit. But you expect me to suck stinky cock? We broke up.
I dated this guy who had a really crusty gross belly button. He was otherwise clean.
He’d come and visit me with his dog. The dog was very old and stinky. There was always a yeasty stinky stink left over when the guy and the dog left. I thought it was the dog!
Until one time, he came without the dog and I realized the stink was coming from him. From the belly button.
Something something soap is bad for you
“My tooth keeps chipping and growing back.”
Dawg that’s tartar 😬
He regularly stuck his fingers in his ass and took a whiff
I would frequently hear my ex blowing his nose at night in bed. He always said it was into a tshirt. Thought that was gross but whatever. Then when i moved out i discovered he was actually blowing it into his hands and wiping it onto the back of the fabric head board of my bed! His side was covered in so much disgusting crusty snot. I left it there. Fuck trying to clean that!
I could smell my exes ass.. Had to bring it up more than once. That was one of many things. I don’t know why I put up with that shit. All I can think of is that I had low self worth
Oh hi. This is going to be cathartic.
My ex had a toenail fungus so bad that his super long and disgusting crust-mobile toe literallly cut holes in multiple fitted sheets.
Our toilet paper rolls would get poop on them. Because ye olde ex somehow got a poopy hand EVERY SINGLE TIME and then transferred a little bit of it to the roll. Was he doing the first pass with a bare hand? I have no idea.
Once he didn’t change his clothes for a week, then he took a shower AND ALMOST PUT THE SAME UNDERWEAR BACK ON. I had to convince him to put on clean undies.
Sat on the bed right after a shower, naked. Stood up, a tire track was on the bed. HE HAD JUST SHOWERED. THIS HAPPENED MULTIPLE TIMES.
Fuzzy teeth.
Anyway we’re divorcing now.
Edit to add: all of this started after we got married, and then the pandemic basically turned him into a feral animal. I did not consent to marriage with this level of hygiene.
This is one of the most disgusting threads ive seen yall need some self respect dating these absolute animals.
We both somehow contracted head lice. We both had quite long hair, I washed mine regularly and he washed his once in a blue moon, due to this, they liked living in my hair but liked laying eggs in his hair, so I was literally walking around with an itchy scalp ALL THE TIME whilst he wasn’t bothered by it at all. I was washing my sheets and treating and combing through my hair every night/second night in attempts to get rid of those fuckers, I kept nagging him to do his head at the same time but he claimed it hurt too much/he was too tired/he couldn’t be bothered, even though I was literally offering to do it for him while he sat there and zoned out. We both had our own seperate living arrangements but spent every night together at each others places. It got to the point where we’d both had head lice for over 4 months despite my time consuming efforts to get rid of them. I finally told him to spend the night at his place and sort it the fuck out as I was staying at mine to wash my sheets and basically marinate in head lice treatment and that he was absolutely NOT welcome at my apartment. He got the idea after that but it took a few weeks. I knew it was fucking revolting at the time but looking back on it now it makes me angry. I want reimbursement for all the money I spent at the chemist on nit poison.
I’m beginning to think it’s over for me if these people are getting into relationships and I’m struggling.
They peed the bed. Every night. I would sleep so close to the edge of the bed to avoid it, and my ex always reeked of piss, even after washing the blankets.
I’m never sleeping with anyone again. Humans are nasty.
Refused to floss. She claimed the space between her teeth was too tight, so I introduced her to the Glide series from oral b; but she still refused. I suggested a water pik since there was no actual flossing involved, and she refused again.
Some nights her breath was really really bad, to the point where I let her know because I was worried for her health. She took it as an insult and tried to say I was just being a dick.
I loved the relationship, but we eventually broke up. The flossing wasn’t a factor in this, but it’s certainly something that I eventually overlooked.
I’m sorry but y’all need therapy for even dating these ppl
I can’t effin read any more of this.
But how the fuck did the people described in this thread have an SO at at least one point in time but I’m single….smh.
I was with girl who didnt wash her ass and any time we would do doggystle I’d get the smell it was disgusting. Relationship didn’t last long
You know what’s funny? Before I read this thread, I thought my standards were low.
I had an ex who just sweat a lot and sometimes didn’t smell the best because of that, but also kinda did all the things to try to improve it so I had a hard time ever wanting to criticize/comment on it.
She showered like a normal person, had good hygiene routines, and I think even tried using prescription deodorant… but she was just constantly damp all over and rocking pit stains with occasional BO.
I always felt a bad because she seemed self conscious about it while also taking all the reasonable steps to try to change it. Overall, I don’t think it had too big an impact on our relationship. We had a lot of shower sex.
Nothing gross here to report. Just putting a shout out to all my exes and to my guy now for always keeping themselves clean, teeth brushed, balls, ass and pits scrubbed and smelling good. Some of these stories have me gagging…….
– didn’t brush their teeth unless I made them, often would see small green bits on their teeth almost like mold
– never washed their hands unless I begged (even after shitting)
– refused to wipe with more than a few squares of toilet paper
– always reeked of BO so much so that if I had to borrow their jacket people who knew me would say “you’re wearing x’s jacket” how do you know? “I can smell it”
– almost never did laundry unless someone else did it for them
– would constantly reuse dirty underwear
– chewed their own toenails to cut them
– room so dirty and full of old trash that it smelled of dead meat, had both a maggot and fly infestation
– did not shower often
– hairy asshole that would collect bits of shit in it
– low key hoarder would keep random bits of trash
– dry skin and dandruff that would flake off onto me
– mattress was stained with dried blood and various other substances
– basically never showered prior to oral or sexual activity
– trash bags under the bed and in every possible ‘hidden place’
– often sat on a specific chair naked. That chair smelt like shit.
– I became so used to cleaning up and so desensitised to it that I failed to realise how disgusting it really was.
Never again. Ever.
I couldn’t overlook a hygiene issue. The relationship would be born dead.
I just got up and brushed my teeth again because they felt nasty for these people
I walked in on my then boyfriend sitting on the bed with his foot up to his mouth…biting off his long toenails. We were living together and had been dating for three years at this point. (Early 20s).
I didn’t want to mock him or anything, but how does someone decide that’s the right way to handle long toenails, and if he’d been doing it the whole time we were dating, had there ever been a time he’d done that, not washed out his mouth, and then kissed me?!
Then I dated a guy, (again, for years and we moved in together, late 20s) before I found out he was so paranoid/scared of getting “diseases,” from toilet seats that he would SQUAT on the toilet seat, with his feet on the rim, to shit. He only admitted this because he was really drunk…
Seriously, WTF, is there a hygiene survey I need to start passing out to exclude these people from my dating pool?
When during COVID his (white) mask was all yellow and grey, and when I asked him why’s the mask that dirty he told me he never washed it. It was a textile mask.
She wasn’t the best at wiping. I stopped doing her in doggy as I didn’t want to see the shit. Once when we did it I had shit on my stomach afterward
After reading some comments here I feel like I must be quite the catch
Y’all just be having sex with anybody 😭
He pissed all over the toilet seat and the floor, consistently. He also used our broom to clean up a collection of pitbull’s shit outside and came to rinse it in our sink with cold water and expected us to use it inside. He would fight with me for wanting an extra, separate broom for this. I am horrified even thinking about it and can’t believe I was ever with this pos 🙁
I was late teens/early 20s and was going to give my first BJ until I noticed the dick didn’t look right… CAKED on smegma like he had been rolling in lotion. And THE SMELL, oh my god. I jumped back, WTF’d the situation. He wasn’t even a smelly guy, I just don’t think he knew he was supposed to clean there? I never did give him a BJ either.
Another one, was seeing a guy but he would never invite me over to his bedroom and one night his friend dragged me to the room and was like “LOOK, at THIS. You want THIS? This is nice?! It’s disgusting! He’s hiding THIS! I’m trying to help you!” He was flipping through trash to show me how bad it was. Food containers everywhere, trash all over the floor and I’m pretty sure suspect looking piss bottles? I ended up dating him for a year, cleaned/gutted his room several times but it was just too much.
How’s this, happened with my highschool girlfriend, at 17.
Bottom drawer of the bathroom filled to the brim with used tampons, and when I discovered this and asked why the bin or even just a sealable bag wasn’t an appropriate option – she sheepishly said she liked the smell of them.
I tapped out.
Not an ex but a cute guy I hooked up with transferred me his tonsil stones while making out.
I didnt say anything because I didnt want to embarrass him and thought it‘d never happen again.
Guess what—
Makes me want to throw up Even thinking about it