Don’t Know How To Break It Off? Hire A Splitter-Upper To Do It For You

Are you sick of your husband and want a divorce? Do you think your daughter is marrying the wrong man?

Well if you are lucky enough to live in Japan you can hire a “splitter-upper” to do the deed for you.

But be warned, things are likely to get messy.

There are estimated to be over 270 of these business who call themselves wakaresase-ya or “life consulting” made up of people who act as “part-private investigator, part-prostitute”.

They will, for the right price, do whatever it takes to lure people into affairs and cheating on their partners.

Often this is done by people such as “the lover of her husband, a woman who yearns for the failure of Rika’s marriage”, or a woman who wants to find a way to get custody of her children and demonise the father.

“It all comes from the desire to own something for yourself,” says Mr Tomiya, a surprisingly ordinary looking Casanova, with a wispy moustache. “Some people want to own a watch or a house, in the same way a woman wants to own her boyfriend or her husband, own him for herself. You ask clients what they want and they say, ‘I want to be happy’. Our job is to sell happiness to our clients — dreams and happiness.”

Dreams and happiness? I don’t think so. What these people are doing is destroying lives and breaking hearts of people in ways that are totally and completely unnecessary.

If you don’t want to be with someone, why not do it the old-fashioned way and dump them yourself?

Obviously this is best done face-to-face, but even if you were to send an email or a text message it would be better than staging an affair, luring them into cheating on you, or any of the other scenarios that these actors come up with to break people up.

None of what these people do is “obviously illegal”, but does that make it right?