This is how the story goes...
Bros, couple of issues that I'm gonna lay out on the table.
1. My wife lives in Seoul, and I live in HK. We've been living apart for around 20 months, but see each other for a few days a month
2. My wife comes to HK in late July to visit. It's an extended 5 day trip (Fri - Wed)
3. It's Sunday afternoon and I decide to go to Chacotaco (great L.A. style mexican food by the way) and smoke some weed with some friends
4. Wife and I are supposed to meet at IFC to go shopping at 4pm for a new wallet that she wants
5. I call her at 3pm to ask if she is ready.
6. She say: "Come home" in "that voice..." the voice where you know you're fucked for something...
7. I go home and she instructs me to sit on the floor (she is on the couch)
8. She busts out my Korean iPhone, which I had disconnected 2 weeks earlier, and shows me the photos of a naked chick from Rio.
9. I lie. "Oh, KTV in Macau. Was with white guys from NY who were on biz trip. Those guys were messing around and took photos on my phone"
10. She says: "Okay, give me the phone number and email address so I can check.
11. I'm not about to ruin another person's life...so after 3 more lies, I finally give in and say I went to Rio, by myself, after a stressful weekend, and get a message at Rio, but didn't do anything!
12. She kicks me out of the house and says she is going back to Korea.
13. I end up at a friend's house and he convinces me to go back to the house and ask for forgiveness. I go back home.
14. My wife let's me in, but suddenly gets the urge to check out the facility (i.e. Rio Sauna) because she wants to confront the girl.
15. I don't argue, so head to Macau Ferry at 11:20pm.
16. We are ready to board the Ferry at 11:45pm, but she suddenly changes her mind and wants to go home.
17. Since we never left HK, but went through immigration, we have a lengthy process of getting back in (even though we have HK ID cards)
18. While we're waiting (behind regular immigration, so there were 100+ people standing around waiting leave HK), she starts going off on me again.
19. I talk back to her and she gives me two right hooks and slap. The people watching are in shock, and a police man comes over to settle things and asks if I want to press charges. I say "No," and they expedite our immigration process to get us the hell out of there.
20. We take separate taxis. She goes home, I go to a friend's house.
21. She is gone the next day.
Since then, she has been adament about divorce. Granted I've been a pretty removed husband (doesn't help we live in different countries), but I can't figure out why she has done this 180 on me, threatening me with divorce, saying she doesn't love me anymore, and refusing to try. On top of that, the focus of our discussions, which are usually when she is drinking, always turns to: "how much settlement are you going to pay me?"
Anyways, 3 weeks later (last weekend), I go to Seoul. She still hates my guts and is demanding all the cash in her Korea and HK accounts, US$100k diamond ring/earrings/necklace I gave her, US$100k for a downpayment on an apartment in Seoul, and US$4,000/mth for 2 years. It could have been worse...so I tell her I will consider if she is willing to try and work things out...JUST TRY... Nope, she says she has thought about it long enough, will hate me forever, then gives me the ultimatum:
"You either divorce me, or I kill myself. You choose."
Fuck... I'm stuck. So now its going on week 4, she is pushing me to arrange divorce papers (because we got married in the US).
Now as I try and figure out why the hell one can do a 180 like that to her husband, I was thinking about what the fuck I did to prompt all this, because a message with a WG is not enough reason to go ape-shit on someone. As I've been thinking for several days now, I was a very removed husband for the past 20 months. I'm pretty convinced that she was not feeling loved.
As I've always promoted myself, I am a lazy fucker outside of the office, and I'm definitely not romantic. I took short cuts on my proposal, I never bought her an engagement ring, we had our wedding at my parents house, I never had any pictures of her in my house, and we hadn't had sex with each other for over 1 year.
Now...me being me...all this does not add up if one looks at my regular personality. I'm a very giving person, so I treat the people I care about with utmost care. The fact that I took all these corners makes me question myself as to whether or not I truly wanted to marry her. Don't get me wrong, I loved my wife, but loving someone isn't enough to want to marry her. Like my mom said: "Well...you love your sister too, right? But that doesn't mean you want to marry her, right?"
I really miss my wife right now, but I need to do some more soul searching....
As for punting, I'm not really in the mood for rebound these days. Fuck...I haven't had a boner for a few weeks now (although Angel in TST helped out with that..  )
Anyways, just thought I'd give the quick and dirty. It's obviously a lot more emotional than that.
I guess Key Takeaways are:
1. Scrub your mobile devices like you would scrub your ass after diahhrea. Did you know that your iPhone can track where in the world you took any photo from your iPhone? Well...I didn't either, but my wife sure knew that function pretty damn well.
2. Did you know that your iPhone keeps a history of when the photo was taken, and from which phone the photo was taken? I didn't either...but my wife knew.
3. Did you know that your iPhone keeps a history of all your mobile web-browsing? I didn't, so she found out about my account on this forum (which explains why I had to beg the PMs to close it). THank goodness her English is bad...but the pink banners and section titles helped her understand exactly what this forum is...
Well, as you can see, I don't know how to use an iPhone very well. I've had it for 2 years, I don't have a single App on it, and I've never used any other function other than web browsing and phone calls.
Don't really feel like getting too much deeper into the details. Its most psychological stuff...Korean culture stuff...stuff that just gives me a headache right now.
Sorry for the long post, but that's the story in a nutshell.
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