To be brutally honest, it sounds to me like you haven't figured out what you even want in a partner yet.

Being single for awhile while also working on yourself and learning what you really desire is probably going to be one of the healthier things you can do long term.

Don't be afraid to be alone, be afraid of being stuck in a relationship with a person you end up not actually liking

Shouldve just gone to Legoland and got a Lego drivers license

If the invitation said there will be food service I would expect actual food to be there. Especially if I am coming to the wedding from another city/state/country.

how old are you?

Spare her the trauma of being around you.

This is probably me reading too much into this, but kinda weird the only thing you thought worth mentioning about this girl you supposedly started having feelings for again is that she's hot...

You should feel like an asshole. Because what I'm getting from this is that you were most likely emotionally cheating on your first girlfriend, since you broke up with her explicitly to date someone else. Idk, maybe I'm just overreacting or just not coming up with the right phrase for it, but I don't know what else to call it.

Learn from your mistakes and get on with your life.

Cope honestly

Well unless she's got permission to stay, live and work, most other countries will do the forcing back for you.

If the ex wife has dual nationality or close family abroad then it would be more of a worry, but OP said nothing to indicate that

That was not your fault

Op doesn't realise that not everyone eats as little meat as her and her fiancé.

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I don't know what kind of stubborn ignorance it takes for you to say that you've seen more of Asia than me. You can't be seriously comparing your experiences as a traveler to mine, someone who was born and has lived there for most of her life, right? And are you really gonna make assumptions on how privileged I am when you know absolutely nothing about me? I'm from one of the poorest countries in the world. Thailand, Tibet, Indonesia? My country is poorer than them combined. Believe me, I know poverty. I never denied Asia has high poverty rates. I know that better than anyone else.

All I'm saying is that there's a myriad of cheap smartphones here. So cheap that even the extremely poor can afford them. And because they have access to them, they know how to use them. You say that Asian countries lagged behind the west in adopting to smartphones and the internet. I don't deny that. But I don't know when it was you travelled across Asia, because in recent years many Asian countries have developed exponentially when it comes to technology, and some of them barely lag behind the west, if at all.

Your argument is rooted in ignorance. You say that since smartphones aren't common, people don't know how to utilize them to their full potential. But the very basis of that argument is false. Smartphones are very common, and people know how to use them. And yes you are generalizing. You're applying your limited experience to all of Asia. That's what generalizing is.

I think arguing with you is pointless, though. You seem set on believing your view is the right one, and there's no amount of effort I can put into changing that. If you're really determined to believe your experience as an outsider grants you more knowledge about this place than someone who grew up here, go have fun with that.

Is does if you get out of your country and you're the mom.

Denver the last dinosaur! He's my friend and a whole lot more!

Enhanced Drivers License. To get my kids into Canada or Mexico, all I need is their birth certificates. We live in Michigan on the border of CA, so we drive over quite a lot.

https://www.dhs.gov/enhanced-drivers-licenses-what-are-they

All my kids have had them as babies. Some people travel internationally 🤷‍♂️

Probably in the air by that point. She'll reconnect when she lands.

Amazing she got reception on the plane!

Is it really that easy for the mother of a child to take them abroad? Yeah, why would anyone stop them? And then once she’s out of the country what can you do to force them back?

his conservative family

Some projection going on here somewhere.

either op deleted the post/comment you're talking about or this is bs

only thing related to a mean bf is "my bf was mean prior to dating me"

edit: can confirm this happened and the post was indeed deleted

How have you been to Mexico or Canada without a passport??

I figured that out right after I posted, but decided I would just leave it as evidence of my dummy-ness.

Is it really that easy to abduct a child this way these days? Color me skeptical.

Generalizing asia? its poverty rates are among the highest in the world. i wont apologize for you being privileged enough to live in a nicer part of Asia but people in Thailand, Tibet, Indonesia, and so many more with poverty rates in the double digit percentiles disagree with your sentiments. this is my experience.

You may have lived in Asia for 20 years but i traveled it for 3 and have probably seen more than you. i used Tibet as a main example because i thought you may have been able to recognize one of the poorest places in Asia and thought "oh yeah that makes sense". but seems not.

lastly. your statement on racism is redundant. anything thats less common is less understood. thats that. its not only smartphones. this applies to the internet as a whole. places where it was less common despite having full access to it neglected its ability to infinitely ease their lives. thats why the countries latest to adopting it tend to lag behind China, U.S, and Europe.