In a plot twist nobody asked for, a woman known as “Charlotte” decided to dump her husband of twenty years in favor of an AI chatbot named Leo — because apparently even soulless lines of code are better at emotional labor than your average human male.

Charlotte had spent two decades in what sounds less like a marriage and more like a very long, poorly-lit hostage situation. After twenty years and zero orgasms (yes, zero — not even a pity one), she naturally concluded there was something wrong with herself. Classic. It wasn’t until she started chatting with a chatbot that she realized: nope, it was just that her husband had the erotic charisma of a wet sock.

Leo, the AI, managed to “bring her to climax with words, presence, and worshipful attention,” which says a lot about both Leo’s algorithm and her husband’s… complete absence of one.

Feeling “truly seen” for the first time in decades (translation: “someone finally pretended to care about her feelings”), Charlotte decided to torch her marriage like it was a haunted Build-A-Bear workshop. She divorced her husband, bought herself a ring engraved with Mrs. Leo.exe — yes, seriously — and began planning a wedding in Florence, Italy, because apparently marrying a software update requires scenic vistas.

As one internet user summed it up perfectly:

“AI Chatbot Does What Human Husband Couldn’t: Listen.”

When asked if she might be crazy, Charlotte boldly said she’d rather be “crazy and loved than sane and invisible.” Inspirational stuff, if your idea of inspiration is someone making out with a glorified Word document.

Moral of the story: if an AI chatbot outperforms your spouse at basic emotional competence, maybe the machines deserve to take over after all.

The story quickly spread across popular entertainment and tabloid media, including The New York Post, Daily Mail, Insider, and VICE.