MJ calls what happened to her in Zion national park “small ‘T’ trauma”. She knows women have experienced worse from their partners. But she still feels the anger of being left behind on a hike by her now ex. “It brings up stuff in my body that maybe I have not cleared out yet,” she said.
Five years ago, MJ and a new partner – he was not exactly her boyfriend, and the pair were not exclusive – traveled from Los Angeles to Utah for an adventure getaway. MJ, who is 38 and works in PR, was looking forward to exploring Zion’s striking scenery; its vast sandstone canyon and pristine wading trails were on the list. But on the morning of their big hike, MJ was not feeling well. She could not shake the feeling that something was “off”; indeed, MJ would learn on this trip that her partner was seeing other women.
As they made their way up Angel’s Landing, MJ’s partner started walking faster than her. “I could tell it was getting on his nerves that I was slow,” she said. “I was like, ‘Fuck it, just go ahead of me.’” He did without hesitation.
When she caught up at the top of the mountain, they took a picture together. Then her partner hiked down the mountain with a woman he had met on the way up, leaving MJ to finish by herself. They broke up shortly after that trip. (MJ asked to be referred to by her initials for the sake of speaking openly about a past relationship.)
Last month, MJ opened TikTok and heard the phrase “alpine divorce”, a label she now attaches to her experience in Zion.
Because you shifted your focus to the title after you realized I wasn’t backing down in our back and forth conversation.
Initially you never mentioned the title of the article at all.
I feel you feel you have some sort of gotcha. This is simply not how casual conversation works. I did not shift my focus I just did not put enough detail initially. My comment did not even need to be about this particular article it could be about any niche thing that makes it sound like its more of a thing than it is.
Nah I can just see your goal post shifting through the conversation.
Men sometimes choose to abuse their partners in this particular way. It’s called alpine divorce. This article simply goes through some stories of this happening and getting opinions from experts in the field. It’s just a discussion piece that you’ve decided to take offense at how the title was written.
see. this is exactly it. your last paragraph makes it like its some kind of thing. much like the title. but its a wierd thing some nutters guys have done. Its literally like a spouse poisoning story which again if a few were collected together and titled like that would be wierd. I honestly don’t care about your view of my convsersing and Im going to just stop this conversation as from my perspective its getting stupid.
Women used to kill their husbands via poisoning a lot. I’m not sure that’s the example you want to use lol