{"id":30292,"date":"2025-06-23T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30292"},"modified":"2025-06-23T15:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:24:31","slug":"should-the-ick-really-end-a-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30292","title":{"rendered":"Should \u2018The Ick\u2019 Really End a Relationship?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Noisy eating, clapping when a plane lands \u2014 experts explain how to handle sudden feelings of disgust.<\/p>\n

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He was charming. He spoke several languages. Things were going well until Ann Parker, a retired public relations consultant, noticed something strange about her date\u2019s driving style.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery now and then, he\u2019d release the steering wheel and quickly lick his hands,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The relationship did not last much longer.<\/p>\n

Ms. Parker was experiencing the immediate turnoff known to daters as \u201cthe ick,\u201d a sudden pang of aversion, usually prompted by someone\u2019s behavior, appearance or personality trait.<\/p>\n

Although the term isn\u2019t new \u2014 by some estimates, it was first used in the 1990s on the series \u201cAlly McBeal\u201d \u2014 \u201cthe ick\u201d often crops up in popular culture and gets frequent mention online. #Theick racked up nearly 225,000 TikTok posts in the past year, according to a representative for the company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The term even prompted psychology researchers from Azusa Pacific University to do a study, published in May<\/a>, which found that over a quarter of surveyed singles who had experienced \u201cthe ick\u201d found it worrisome enough that they reported ending the relationship immediately.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ick\u201d may have a catchy name, but it captures something significant about the uncertainty of dating: the sneaking realization that a person might not be right for you.<\/p>\n

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Noisy eating, clapping when a plane lands \u2014 experts explain how to handle sudden feelings of disgust.He was charming. He spoke several languages. Things were going well until Ann Parker, a retired public relations consultant, noticed something strange about her date\u2019s driving style.\u201cEvery now and then, he\u2019d release the steering wheel and quickly lick his hands,\u201d she said.The relationship did not last much longer.Ms. Parker was experiencing the immediate turnoff known to daters as \u201cthe ick,\u201d a sudden pang of aversion, usually prompted by someone\u2019s behavior, appearance or personality trait.Although the term isn\u2019t new \u2014 by some estimates, it was first used in the 1990s on the series \u201cAlly McBeal\u201d \u2014 \u201cthe ick\u201d often crops up in popular culture and gets frequent mention online. #Theick racked up nearly 225,000 TikTok posts in the past year, according to a representative for the company.The term even prompted psychology researchers from Azusa Pacific University to do a study, published in May, which found that over a quarter of surveyed singles who had experienced \u201cthe ick\u201d found it worrisome enough that they reported ending the relationship immediately.\u201cThe Ick\u201d may have a catchy name, but it captures something significant about the uncertainty of dating: the sneaking realization that a person might not be right for you.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30294,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30295,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30292\/revisions\/30295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}