Woman dumps her boyfriend for admitting to disgusting habit almost half of men do

A woman has revealed she dumped her boyfriend after finding out he had a pretty gross habit.

Dating can be tough at the best of times, especially when trying to get through the honeymoon stage and settle into a long-term relationship without giving each other the ick.

There can be many dealbreakers along the way, with some people finding even the smallest things too difficult to bear.

One woman revealed why she ended up ditching her partner - and it's a habit around half of all men share.

She opened up about what ended their relationship. Credit: Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images

Taking to the Reddit thread r/texts, she shared screenshots of the text message conversation that sparked the beginning of the end.

She revealed that they'd moved in together after two years of dating, but things began to unravel after just three months.

The unnamed woman captioned it: "The text conversation that foreshadowed our breakup."

But what was such a dealbreaker for her? Well, it all came down to washing the bedsheets.

In the text, she asked him if he could "throw the bedsheets in the wash", to which he responded: "Why?"

She pointed out that the sheets were dirty from being used and that she washes them "once a week", and suggested they "alternate" who does that household chore each week to make it "a little more fair".

However, her slovenly boyfriend argued that it wasn't "fair" on him as it was "creating more work" and that the sheets "don't need to be washed every week".

Of course, the next question was then - how often does he actually change his bedsheets?

Shockingly, he responded: "IDK (I don't know), like once every other month? If that."

The woman shared the conversation that sparked the end of their relationship. Credit: Reddit

The horrified girlfriend then replied: "Is that a joke because that's disgusting," leaving her man bewildered.

He then argued that if she wanted "something done a certain way" she should just do it herself, to which she responded that she didn't feel "comfortable sleeping in a bed with musty sheets".

Not wanting to change his crusty ways for anyone, the boyfriend then suggested she sleep on the couch and branded her "controlling" for suggesting they actually clean their bedding more than once every few months.

She added in the caption that her boyfriend had later admitted he "only washed his bedsheets twice a year".

The frequency of how often he changed his sheets was a dealbreaker. Credit: Olga Dobrovolska/Getty Images

The woman confirmed in the comments: "I only lasted another five months before I moved out and dumped him. [...] Before you ask, no he wasn’t depressed. Just super lazy, gross, and entitled."

Unfortunately, his gross ways don't appear to be all that rare, as a British study shared by the New York Post recently revealed that revealed that around 45% of single men only wash their sheets around every four months.

People in the comments also sympathized with the woman's plight, having encountered similarly musty-bedded men in their lives.

One wrote: "My ex and i live together still but i moved out of the bedroom to the living room. He hasn't washed the sheets once since and that was last Dec. him and his room smell soooooo bad. He works in a restaurant too so his pillowcase is now turning black. I don't get it. it's so foul."

Another added: "I now get backne from sleeping over at dudes place. Thought he had cream-coloured sheets…they were supposed to be white. When I asked him about it he said 'oh yeah mum’s coming to do them this weekend'. Bro was 23-24 ."

Others were similarly grossed-out by the man's poor bed hygiene, writing: "How were you able to stay with this f**king guy another year 5 months after this exchange? My skin is iching by reading this."

Many men have admitted to not changing their sheets for months on end. Credit: Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Images

Another added: "good on you for breaking up w the must master," while someone else wrote: "But like… if you wash your sheets biannually like this dude maybe you need 15 pods to cut through the man grease of that straight up oiled canvas he’s manufacturing."

One poster commented: "I would’ve broken up w him right then and there. Talking mad crazy and getting defensive over his dirtiness… you dated a boy not a man."

How often should you change your sheets? Let us know in the comments.

Featured image credit: Olga Dobrovolska/Getty Images