One woman’s atypical relationship recently came to an end, and she’s now explained the reason why.
Michele Köbke is a 36-year-old woman based in Berlin, Germany who has previously stated she was in a long-term relationship with a Boeing 737-800 airplane, one that lasted for roughly nine years.
However, despite her previously shared ambition to marry the airplane, Köbke has now revealed that she is no longer in a relationship.
Michele explained her situation to Blide, a German newspaper, in an interview that was later translated by the DailyMail UK: “We are separated, but we’re still friends.”
While considered peculiar by many people across the world, Michele is what experts call an objectophile, or someone who is attracted to inanimate objects.
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She once said of her relationship: "My cheeks hurt from smiling, I’m the happiest woman in the world - when I’m with him I have everything I need.
“It’s like a normal relationship, we have relaxing evenings together and when we go to bed, we cuddle and fall asleep together.
“When I touch his wings, I get immediately sweaty palms and get excited.”
She also spoke about the time she did get the chance to be up close and personal with her beloved aircraft, saying: “The time in the hangar was the most beautiful moment of my life and when I was with him, we enjoyed our time together, we kissed and I caressed him.”
But like all relationships, they had their difficulties.
Michele previously said: "A relationship with a plane is not easy and at times difficult.
“I can only get close to him when I fly with him or when I can get to him in the hangar, which has only happened once in my life.”
The Boeing 737-800, which Michele took to calling Darling, was a major part of her life for nearly a decade, making her decision to disengage in the unique relationship a shocking one.
However, she also has said that the time she did get to spend with Darling were some of the best experiences of her life.
Now, in the wake of her relationship ending, Michele has sold most of her belongings related to the airplane but has not fully disengaged from her atypical relationship type.
“I now love wearing knight’s armor,” Köbke explained, now a devoted lover of the Middle Ages.
- dumbass ( @dumbass@leminal.space ) English16•2 days ago
Man, Boeing can’t even keep a romance from breaking down.
- Zip2 ( @Zip2@feddit.uk ) 14•3 days ago
Is it over over?
- swab148 ( @swab148@lemm.ee ) 10•3 days ago
Yeah, like if I wanted to ask the plane out, would she be cool with it?
- Zip2 ( @Zip2@feddit.uk ) 7•3 days ago
Depends if there’s any emotional (airline) baggage.
I’d give it a few months, you don’t want to get between a woman and a plane.
- Zip2 ( @Zip2@feddit.uk ) 8•3 days ago
That’s a good point. If you leave it longer there’s a better chance of the relationship taking off.
- thefartographer ( @thefartographer@lemm.ee ) 5•3 days ago
That’s a bad joke. You’re grounded
- Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( @SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) 11•3 days ago
Usually I make jokes on some stories but not here. I actually don’t see the problem with this as long as nobody is getting legitimately harmed.
Hope both she and the plane are doing well.
- Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( @SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) 6•3 days ago
Also, the excerpt at least is really sweet.
Nobody got hurt and it’s healthier for her than her previous excursion into extreme corsetry, so… each to their own.
- Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( @SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) 3•3 days ago
Yup, exactly.
- Skunk ( @Skunk@jlai.lu ) 8•3 days ago
Based in Berlin but in love with a KLM 738.
She could have chose an easier aircraft, as in closer to her place, but I guess love is blind eh ? From Lufthansa I would have taken the A350-1000 to bed but that’s my own love.
The heart wants what it wants.
- Juice ( @Juice@midwest.social ) 7•3 days ago
If I ever got to wear medieval knights armor I would also masturbate, so I have some common ground with her
I’m going to regret this but… how? With heavily armoured nether regions it’s going to be tricky. I know life finds a way but think of the chafing!
- Juice ( @Juice@midwest.social ) 4•3 days ago
Chafing is the only thing I ever think about
- shastaxc ( @shasta@lemm.ee ) 2•3 days ago
Assless mail
I Googled it, apparently not a thing - looks like a gap in the… market.
- jlow (he/him) ( @jlow@beehaw.org ) 7•3 days ago
Ew, the source for this is the German rightwing tabloid “Bild”, it looks like she gave them an interview (might be entirely made up, never know with these publications). That kinda taints this story for me …
- python ( @python@programming.dev ) 6•3 days ago
There’s some quip to be made here about Berlin’s aerial infrastructure
- GBU_28 ( @GBU_28@lemm.ee ) English5•3 days ago
Send her to /ncd , it’s full of planefuckers
- CarbonIceDragon ( @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ) 5•3 days ago
Would fit right in with those NCD people that are always lusting over planes, I guess.