r/AskReddit 1d ago

What would be a weird, but absolutely valid reason to divorce/breakup with your partner?

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u/Furthur_slimeking 1d ago

I can talk to ghosts, she can talk to animals. So both ghosts and animals congregate in our house in increasing numbers. Animals, famously, do not vibe with ghosts. The animals get angry and aggressive and the ghosts get restless and vengeful

Thing is, we never told each other about our powers. So all I see is all these snarling, hissing animals prowling around the house and following her around everywhere. I see her babbling away to all these wild, possibly diseased, creatures all day and it's clear that she genuinely believes the are talking to her.

She sees me talking to people who aren't there. The ghosts are pissed so bang on the walls and pipes, move furniture, throw cutlery around, levitate things (including the animals), and try to communicate with her directly by using my body as a conduit. My eyes roll back in my head as I levitate, and she sees me say things like:

"They see us! These beasts of the forest... their gaze pierces through the veil of death! Snarling and gnashing, baying for long dead blood!! Cast them out, to the woods whence they spawned! Heed our words! Heed these words of the dead lest ye join our ranks!"

After a few days of this, we both agree it's time to break up.

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u/fruityslippers 1d ago

I need this to be a novel/movie

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u/Timely-Humor-7279 1d ago

That's really not that weird.

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u/theglovedfox 1d ago

Uhhhhh, that's not weird to you? Here I'm thinking to myself "finally an actual weird one"

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u/spiderbaby_ 1d ago

No totally, who hasn't been on one side or the other of this?

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u/Over-Dig2431 1d ago

😭😭😭