'Just how hard have you had to work to get someone to take the hint and stay dumped?'
Er, never had to. I was usually the one being dumped *sob*.

However, the lamest excuse I ever had for being left high and dry on the emotional shelf, after much probing and exclamations to effect of "Come on, we've been together for 'x' years, the least I deserve in an explanation as to why", was...

"You're too nice".

WTF?

Ah well, happier times and places ensued eventually. As an aside, Tourette's reckons that the most romantic thing I ever said to her, (next to going down on bended knee to propose) was on holiday a few years ago. The weather was warm, 'twas a balmy evening, we were getting a bit frisky on the balcony; except that we had a triple room (i.e. one room with three beds in it) and Sweary Junior was asleep inside...

I leaned forward and whispered in her ear, "Fucking hell, I wish I had some bromide".

You see, at the time SJ was going through a very insecure patch and could have woken up at any given moment. Hence the need for bromide to stop me tipping myself over the edge. She took it as a compliment that she was having such an effect on me. And yes, I know that the story about the Navy putting bromide in sailor's tea to stop them getting urges on the poop-deck is a load of bollocks, before anyone starts
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 6 Jun 2008, 11:51, 11 replies)

"You're too nice"
Yep, I've had that a few times. Usually from women who complain bitterly that they keep getting involved with bastards.

Go figure.

How did you propose then, was it "Will you fucking marry me?"
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 12:00, closed)

Pretty much
But social decorum dictated that I left out the 'fucking' bit.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 6 Jun 2008, 12:01, closed)

I've never had anyone say i'm too nice...
I could certainly make use of some Bromide though.
( Cawl, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 12:05, closed)

Too nice, am I?
Yep, had that aswell.

So, it's bad that I care for you and take you out to dinner and stuff as opposed to - I don't know - cheating on you at any given opportunity or hitting you or whatever.

Women. *smacks head* Can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em.

(Not you, Mrs. Devil, if you're reading this. You're fab, of course!)
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 12:15, closed)

In the lab once
we were making compressed bromide tablets that were pretty colours. I suggested we should give them to the local pikey kids as an excess pêrmanently does the job of sterilisation. Everyone though I must be related to Josef Mengele or something...
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 12:27, closed)

Translation
"Too nice" = "You treat me well, you'll never hit me and you'll never screw around behind my back. However, I'm looking for someone who will do those things. Let's face it, being with someone who is perfect is no challenge - and we women love a challenge. I'm off to find a hard-drinking, two-timing wife-beater that I can attempt to change, finally realise that he won't and in 10 years time I'll be a bitter loner wishing I had stayed with the nice guy. See ya."
(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 12:30, closed)

There is a thing as too nice.
I had an ex girlfriend who was too nice. She would always ask me for a kiss and never just kiss me. I knew that if I asked her to spin around on one leg and sing I'm a little teapot then she would have done it.There are some people out there who just ache to be taken for granted and mis-treated. Must be a mashocistic thing.

Unfortunatly my one regret is that I dumped her when we went to London to gay pride. Not one of my proudest moments.
( girlinthehole, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 12:44, closed)

I'm pretty sure I've been dumped for being 'too nice' as well.
But instead of saying, 'I'm sorry Robert, we have to break up, you're too nice,' what they actually said was, 'What the fuck are you doing with your cock in the marmite?!'

Meh.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 12:59, closed)

Ayup.
Been there, done that. Never makes any more sense later, and never feels much better either. No matter what, the WTF reaction stays firmly in place.

Goddam nutjobs...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 6 Jun 2008, 13:03, closed)

Awww...you guys are all just too nice.


/coat
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Fri 6 Jun 2008, 14:53, closed)

"Too nice"
What is it about people who say that? A decent person is a gem and they're making the effort not just to be nice, but be a nice person. Is it cynicism? Do they just want a challenge? Or is their self-esteem so low that they think they're unworthy? Whatever it is, anyone who accuses someone of being too nice helps build up someone's cynicism. Please! Do everyone in the universe a favour and embrace the other person's niceness (but don't take advantage of it).

If someone ever accused me of being too nice, I’d respond with "Look, I am what I am and it's just the way I am and if you don't fucking like it, you can piss-cocking shit off."
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 15:28, closed)