McCheese
SW: Sean, CW: Crone, GW: Wizardhawk
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Sorry, I got busy at work and then I was occupied all night/morning. I'll give bullet points to the major stuff that happened, but I won't/can't write up the whole story. Like Haast said, I went through the play-by-play as it happened in the old TGWBYHT. Also, after thinking about it I'm not going to read the message. I'm morbidly curious what it says, but I've moved on and don't feel like dealing with that bullshit again. If you read below you'll understand why.
- I moved to Kazakhstan on a 1-year work contract. I had a friend (a Kazakh native) there who introduced me to an old family friend of hers, a Russian girl. She lived in another city (24ish hour train ride away), and we met briefly and then started a long distance relationship for around 2 months. She was awesome. During our conversations she mentioned that when she finished her master's she was going to move to my city (the capital) in order to find more work, since she lived in a pretty small, backwater city without many options.
- After 2 - 3 months, she graduates and she says she's coming to my city. I offer to let her stay with me until she can find a job and a place to live. She arrives, things go well, and she basically moves in with me and we start living together. I ended up extending my work contract for another year, and eventually into a 3rd year.
- For the first few months things are great, but then she starts to get mood swings, like she'd fly off the handle at the drop of a hat. She exploded and started a 6ish hour fight because I wasn't walking close enough to her on the street once, for instance. Another time we were eating in the kitchen and she dropped a piece of whatever it was on the floor accidently, and I said something like "Oops, you dropped suchandsuch" and she flipped the fuck out. The worst was after I brought her to America on a trip, and she flipped out in my parent's house because I suggested she not come with me to run an errand because she looked like she was coming down with a cold. For like 8 hours she screamed about how I shouldn't have brought her to America if I didn't want to do stuff with her, depsite me financing 100% of the trip.
- Things were great 80% of the time, but 20% of the time she'd have these explosive mood changes and it started to take its toll. One night during some insane argument about bullshit, I told her I was done and I couldn't put up with this anymore. She grabbed a knife and put it on her wrist and said she'd kill herself if I left her. I caved and stayed. Another time I tried to break up she got up on the window sill of our big window and said she'd throw herself out.
- Another thing that made breaking up with her hard was that she'd have panick attacks where she'd faint and seem like she was dying. One night I called her on her suicide bullshit and still said I was leaving. She went outside (in -40 degree temperatures) and wandered around a bit until I could convince her to come back inside. On the way up to our apartment she collapsed and wasn't breathing (it was like 4am at this point) so I had to bang on a neighbor's door to help, since I didn't know the emergency number or anything. Thankfully they had some smelling salts and brought her around and called the ambulance. This happened 2 or 3 times, usually during one of our explosive fights. It made me feel trapped, because I loved her the 80% of the time she was normal and I coulnd't just break up with her and leave her lying on the floor.
- At one point I got really really sick, to the point that I was bedridden with a fever and basically delerious. I don't remember much, but this is where the idea that she poisoned me came from. I posted about being sick on FOH and people suggested she poisoned me, but I believe it was just a really bad strep throat infection. Anyway, she got me to the hospital (old Soviet infectious disease hospital), and she brought me toilet paper while I was there. I was supposed to be there for 10 days, but I had to leave because I my landlord sold my apartment while I was in the hospital on day 3 or 4, so she helped me escape the hospital when we got kicked out of our apartment and we had to move on a couple days' notice.
- finally we have another huge argument over something stupid, and prior to this I had given her an ultimatum that if she flipped out again I would be done, no matter what. So she was good for a while but eventually flipped out, and I told her I was done. She started feeling sick like usual and she ended up in the hospital. So while she was in the hospital I packed a backpack with just my essentials, took it to work, and after work I went straight from the office to the airport and caught a 3am flight back to the USA. I texted her that I was leaving and left her a note explaining why, pointing out and reminding her about my ultimatum. I also emailed my work and apologized for vanishing, but that I had to for personal reasons. I didn't want to abandon my job, but this was the only time I saw a chance to escape without literally having to step over her lifeless body on the door stoop, so I took advantage of it and fled.
There were many other things that happened, like she held my passport ransom at one point to keep me from leaving, and she had an insane jealous streak to the point that I couldn't even go out for drinks now and then after work, her brother punched his wife, her dad was a racist, I had to cut-off contact with my aforementioend Kazakh friend, etc. Total time was from like Fall 2009 through winter of 2011.
