It is the same ending every time, with a different person each time.
It goes well. It keeps going well. And then somewhere around the point where it would have become real, it cools, and the reason you are given never quite explains it.
My name is Ren Kagetsuki. For fifteen years I took orders to do this to people.
Separation was the most common order I ever received. More than money, more than health, more than revenge.
What people were actually buying
In Japanese it is enkiri. The cutting of a bond.
It is an old and completely ordinary part of practice here. There are shrines people travel to for it, and there have been for centuries.
Most of what I was asked for was not dramatic. Nobody wanted a person destroyed.
They wanted one thing not to work.
An ex who could not accept an ending. A parent who had a different match in mind. Someone who wanted you, and reasoned that clearing the field was easier than being chosen.
Why it does not look like a curse
Because it does not touch you. It touches the join.
Nothing happens to your face, your work, your conversation or your warmth. You go on being exactly who you were.
What stops happening is that the bond takes.
So there is never a moment to point at. There is only a long series of near misses, each with its own perfectly reasonable explanation.
He was not ready. She moved away. The timing was wrong. He said he could not explain it.
That last one is the one I listen for.
People under this work hear it constantly, and it is a very strange thing for a person to say about their own feelings.
A woman once brought me four of them. Four men, over nine years, and three had used almost the same sentence on the way out.
None of the three had ever met.
The tell is the timing, not the reasons
Lay your last four out on paper. Not why each one ended. How long each one lasted.
Ordinary bad luck in love gives you a spread. Six weeks, two years, one night, eight months.
What I see in this work is a cluster.
Three of them ending at around the same point, or all of them ending at the same stage: the meeting of parents, the talk about moving in, the first time anyone said the word.
Different people, different reasons, same mark on the ruler.
Nothing about your personality produces that. Personalities do not keep time.
And note what you are not being asked to do here. Not to rate yourself, not to examine your attachment style, not to find the flaw.
Just to write down four numbers.
The three shapes I see
Aimed at you
Usually an ending somebody else did not agree to.
It begins within months of that ending, and it follows you rather than any particular partner. Moving city does nothing.
Aimed at the couple
This one is ordered by family far more often than people imagine, and in my experience it is never described as a curse by the person paying for it.
It is described as wanting what is best.
I have sat with a mother who cried while she gave me the details.
The mark of it is that one relationship falls apart with unusual speed and the ones after it are fine, or that every relationship survives until it meets the family.
Carried by the line
Your mother alone. Her mother alone. The same age, the same shape of ending.
This is the one that makes people say it is simply how their family is.
It is not how your family is. Something was done, far enough back that nobody alive remembers it being done.
Work carried out on you alone will not hold this one.
What I will not do
I do not bind anyone to you.
There are practitioners who sell that, and if it is what you want then I am the wrong person and I will say so on the first message.
What I do is take out what was put between you and everyone else.
After that, what happens is ordinary. Some of it will still go badly, because that is what love is like.
It will just be going badly for the usual reasons.
How it is undone
The bond was not damaged. Something was placed across it.
So the work is to find the line it was placed along, cut that, clear what has settled, and then seal it so the same hand cannot lay it again.
That sealing matters more here than anywhere else in my practice, because the people who order separation work tend to order it more than once.
It is carried out from Japan, and you do nothing and face nobody: how the work is done and what it costs.
If you feel cursed to never find love
Send me the list. Four relationships, how long each lasted, and what stage each one reached.
Then tell me who did not accept it when something of yours ended.
Most people know. They have known for years and have never had anywhere to say it: the twelve questions I ask before I take a case.
You have spent a long time being told to work on yourself.
If this is what I think it is, there was never anything wrong with you. There was something in the way.
