It took seconds for my boyfriend to give me a very specific and long-term ick – and everyone agrees with me

A woman immediately got the creeps from her long-term boyfriend after he put on a macho act in front of her friends – despite behaving very differently in private.

The “ick” is when attraction to a current or potential partner suddenly turns into a feeling of disgust because the individual has done something disturbing or irritating.

The Australian woman revealed her boyfriend is afraid of spiders and recently ‘freaked out’ after seeing one in her closet.

‘He wouldn’t even go near it because he hates spiders. I didn’t really want to deal with it either, but I moved it outside,” she said in a Facebook post.

‘A few weeks later we were having dinner and there were five girls on the balcony. A spider appears and a girl panics. My friend, who apparently no longer has any problems with spiders, takes a piece of paper towel and tries to kill it.’

The woman said his sudden change in behavior really “set her off.”

“I have the biggest ick right now because what is this new show of masculinity?

“He let me deal with it while we were alone. But if there is a female audience, he likes to put on a show? I’m literally being rejected.’

The next morning, the woman admitted that she thought she was overreacting in the heat of the moment, but she was still irritated about the situation.

A few women agreed with her “ick” and claimed it was a red flag.

“That would annoy me,” one person wrote. “I’d tell him to go live with his new girlfriend.”

“Pick up the next spider in the house and throw it at him,” said another.

“If he doesn’t get the spin every time, he’s not marriage material. Why bother staying together if he’s only going to man up in public?’ a woman asked.

But others claimed she “overreacted” and was too harsh.

‘I see it the other way around. When he’s with you, he feels safe enough to show his vulnerable side,” one person said.

“You’d expect him to be brave and deal with it, so if there’s a bunch of women in his house he has no choice but to deal with it. Imagine if he was the one afraid of the spider, how much shit you girls would have given him!’ another wrote.

A third said: ‘I’m terrified of spiders but if anyone else around me freaks out I go into what I call mother override. I can do scary things for other people. Your friend is probably the same.”