"I wasn’t asking him to fight in a war. I was asking him to walk through some damp camellias with me."

Jessica Morgan thought she was in a relationship with a man who understood romance—until he refused to take a stroll through the Atlanta Botanical Garden in the rain. What should have been a dreamy, mist-kissed date among blooming flowers quickly unraveled into a philosophical crisis about love, effort, and whether wet socks are truly a dealbreaker.

“He acted like I was asking him to hike Mount Everest in a monsoon,” Jessica lamented, still processing the breakup. “Meanwhile, I was just standing there, waiting for him to be the kind of guy who sees a little rain and thinks, ‘This is our moment.’”

Her ex-boyfriend, Ryan Thompson, saw things differently. “Plants already get enough rain,” he said, as if that was the point.

Now single, Jessica is reflecting on the red flags she ignored—including Ryan’s firm belief that all sushi tastes the same and his insistence that grocery store bouquets are "just as nice" as florist arrangements. Meanwhile, Ryan has re-downloaded Hinge, updating his bio to include the word "indoorsy."

The Atlanta Botanical Garden has issued an official statement expressing their condolences for the breakup but affirming that "a light drizzle only enhances the experience."