Hi RL, hope the eye sight improves, and fast, make sure your following thru. I know you are.

Its almost funny, sad, that he cant realize the whole 500.00 was prob set up BEFORE he even landed as a way to get money out of him. For her, the whole thing is a giant scam. Still working the soul-mate thing.........for a cost.

That fog isn't a lifting.........yet.

I think he really could careless about the "tramp", it was an ends to a mean in regards to his fantasy of seeing Russia in the first place. Now that his fantasy has been fulfilled, what's he going to do to fill the next dream? She's gonna be pushing extra hard now to figure out a way of getting over here. Maybe it will be the push to find out exactly how "pushy" she can be and what she really wants out of him. She'll get tired eventually that she picked the wrong mark. Who knows?

I was AMAZED at your MLC friend story during your trip to the UK. What an incredible experience seeing it first hand, and from a more or less neutral standpoint. I realize it wasn't the time or place to say anything, and like others I would have had a real HARD time not saying anything. Wont that be an interesting conversation when she finally comes out of the fog? IF she does.
Sounds like you gained some perspective out of it.

Btw, my wife, is well..........the same, but with a few more health issues, ok she's actually a mess. Thx for asking over in MH's thread. We just watch and learn, right!

The roller coaster slows down, the highs and lows don't seem as extreme, and eventually they either go with us to go to a new ride, or we get off and head to another park altogether. Time can be an amazing neutralizer.

Your husband's roller coaster ride some how stopped thru mars, ok Russia, but your still in the same park on a different ride. Enjoy the difference for now.

As I know you already know, you cant fix anything at this point. So be glad you don't have a lot of the details. Wouldn't it feel like you were checking his text/phone logs, snooping in a way, if you did have all that information? I wouldn't want to know myself. TOO MUCH INFO just drags us back onto the ride.

Keep on keeping on, your doing good.