On Reddit, commenters have noted that her safety concerns are legitimate.
In a follow-up comment, she added that as far as she knows, her boyfriend doesn't have 'a real goal in mind' and 'just likes the process of digging': 'I think he's just doing it to have fun.'Ĭommenters have said he could be in real danger of the tunnel collapsing or oxygen deprivation, and some Twitter users have cracked jokes Obviously I don't think he's insane, but I hadn't considered the mental health aspect of this, and I just don't know what to do,' she concluded. 'He's always really happy when he comes back from digging, which is why I haven't seriously tried to stop him before, but I was talking to a friend about him, and she told me he might be going crazy.
'This can't be good for his mental health, but I don't know how to convince him to stop,' she insisted. He still comes home, but he barely spends any time with me, and I know that he isn't doing anything but digging that damn hole in the ground. 'It used to be that he'd occasionally head out and do some digging on the weekends, but now he spends almost all of his free time out there. 'I'm pretty much the only person he still talks to outside of his job, and he doesn't go out and do anything anymore,' she wrote. She said that he no longer has a social life and barely even spends time with her anymore He is always 'happy' when he comes home from hours of digging, but she's worried about his physical safety and mental health. 'I've tried voicing this concern to him, but he just laughs it off and assures me that he'll be fine,' she said.īut she's also worried that 'he doesn't really have a social life' any more, because of this tunnel. The woman said that her biggest concern is her boyfriend's safety, as she is worried the tunnel might collapse on him. 'I haven't gone into it, but it looked like the quality severely dropped as the tunnel went further, mostly becoming open dirt with some wood beams holding it up.' At the front, which is the only part that I've seen, he's got cement beams, electric lights, even chairs and a small table,' she went on. The front of the thing is deep, wide, well put together. 'He's spent roughly a year on it, and it's evident. I haven't seen the full extent of it, but last I saw it was remarkably deep under the surface.
'So, I know this is a weird question, but my boyfriend likes to spend a lot of his free time digging a tunnel on some property that he inherited. 'How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel?' the Reddit post began.
A 27-year-old woman posted anonymously on Reddit, writing that her 31-year-old boyfriend has spent about a year working on his 'remarkably deep' tunnel (stock photo)