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Alpine divorce is the term circulating online for something that is not a divorce at all. Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch say it is abandonment with a trendy name, and the conversation it opens is about what a partner does when things get genuinely hard.

The term comes from a climber in Austria who left his exhausted girlfriend at a summit. She died. He was convicted. But the conversation Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch build around it is not about mountains. It is about the smaller versions most people have actually lived: being left on the side of a road mid-argument, being abandoned in an unfamiliar place, being with someone who disappears the moment the situation demands more than they want to give. Tedesco puts it plainly: big moments do not change people. They expose them.

Topics: alpine divorce, relationship abandonment, emotional maturity, relationship red flags, dating advice

GUEST: Tony Tedesco, Jen Kirsch

Originally aired on 2026-04-27