Instead of proofreading the materials, I got stuck in TikTok again. The feed threw up a video of a girl. She is walking along some rocky mountain path, crying, the wind smearing tears across her face. The text on the screen screams that this is the worst Saturday of her life: the guy just dumped her in the middle of the route, and then it dawned on her that he never loved her, informs Ukr.Media.
Over 19 million views. In the comments, this phenomenon was dubbed the “Alpine divorce.”
It sounds like the name of an elite legal service in a Swiss resort where property is divided over a glass of champagne with a view of Mont Blanc. But in reality, it's just a new term for the situation where your supposedly loving partner abandons you to your fate somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
It turns out that the trend has deep roots. Back in 1893, writer Robert Barr published a story of the same name, about a man who decided to elegantly get rid of his wife while hiking in the Alps. More than a century later, we have learned to fly into space and print organs on a 3D printer, and some individuals' methods of resolving conflicts have not evolved.
Today, an “alpine divorce” is when you are abandoned in the forest, mountains, or on a deserted coast after an argument. Usually, this is where a relationship logically ends, because it's somehow difficult to say: “You are very dear to me, I was just not in the mood, so I left you to the wolves.”
And if the TikTok video makes it look like another buzzer drama, the reality is much dirtier.
In the comments under that video, people write that there are entire support groups for those who have gone through similar experiences. And last month, a frankly creepy story flashed in the news: an Austrian climber was convicted of manslaughter. He had an argument with a girl and just walked away, leaving her on the Grossglockner mountain. She froze to death.
When you read something like this, you can't help but think: what's going on in these people's minds?
To turn around and walk away, knowing that someone is depending on you in extreme conditions, requires a complete, total lack of empathy. The same banal ability to understand someone else's fear. It's easier for them to say “your problems” and disappear into the fog as soon as it becomes uncomfortable.
Another option is simply zero emotional control. This type of people, whose visor falls off over a trifle. In a fit of anger, they turn off their brains and act impulsively. Perhaps, having descended to the base camp and drunk coffee, such a hero will feel guilty, but it will not make you warmer at the top.
We spend so much time searching for the perfect partner, analyzing musical tastes, political views, and how a person feels about cats. But it turns out that the main criterion is whether this handsome guy will leave you to die in the bushes if your car gets stuck in the woods.
If the conflict has caught you somewhere at an altitude of two thousand meters or in the middle of a dense forest, you need to somehow come to terms with your own pride. Hide the insults deeper into your backpack, press the brakes and focus on one thing – to descend together to civilization. And there, in safety, with a hot shower and normal Wi-Fi, you can block the numbers and make scenes.
But looking at all this, you understand one thing: Until you know a person one hundred percent, it's better not to go with them to a place where it's impossible to call a taxi.
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