Dating Dealbreakers

This sounded fun, so I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon with Miss Candy this week, as she participates in Mommy Brain's All About MEme Monday.  They're talking about Dating Dealbreakers, and since I'm still stuck out there in the dating world I thought I'd play along!  I'm going to list my top 5, so I hope you enjoy!

Dealbreaker #1:  Flakey McFlakerson.  Guys who cancel all the time or stand you up-kick 'em to the curb!   I have had far too much experience with this, and I'm beyond tired of it.  Some of you who read my blog remember E (if not, go back a few months in my Archive, I wrote about him a lot last year) and how he probably stood me up eight out of ten times.  There was another guy who stood me up twice, The Musician Asshole did twice, and I wont put up with it anymore.  From now on, if you stand-me up once (or cancel too often without valid excuses) I'm moving on.  No way in hell am I being strung-along like that anymore.

Dealbreaker #2:  Mr. Clingy Emailer.  I belong to a few dating sites online, and get quite a few emails from guys on there.  Sometimes my life gets so incredibly hectic that I don't have time to respond right away, or I'm too exhausted when I get home to email back so I'll put it off for a day or two.  If I receive an email from a guy and then another one (or in some cases, several more) before I have a chance to respond, it sends up red flags.  I don't want someone incredibly clingy after I've been dating them for a while, so why would I want someone who is clingy before I even meet them?  Scary!

Dealbreaker #3: The "wut-up dawg" guy.  I will admit that I am a grammar nazi, but if a guy actually tries and misspells words or has typos, I can look past it.  However, if you email me and use the stupid (I don't even know if there's a proper term for it) spelling of words, in an effort to be cool, I will ignore you.  There have been times I've gotten entire emails written out like this: "Hey wut up guurrrrl, u r hawt an I wanna tak uz out cuz it cud be fun timez, iz a fun boi to chill with dawg.  Laterz."  Also, on this same note, you call me "dawg" or the like, I'm pretty much done at that point.

Dealbreaker #4: Mamma's Boy.  There's some give on this, but I've dated guys that lived at home still, and I can't do it.  It's awkward, and basically lame.  By this age, you should at least have moved forward in life enough to have a place of your own or at least some roommates.

Dealbreaker #5:  Closed Minds and Intollerance.  Racist?  Religious with no tolerance for other beliefs?  Pass on by buddy, I wont do it even in the least.  I wont even CONTEMPLATE doing it.  Better luck next time.