Happy Ending May 20, 2010 10:20 PM Subscribe
Hi all I have been out of MeFi for years and years and have come back with a happy ending update to this post I made almost exactly 5 years ago:
http://ask.metafilter.com/19372/Divorce-Separation-and-Immigation-from-Russia-to-the-UK
Good news is that we sorted it all out. I sponsored her on a student visa, she got her second Masters here in the UK, earns a great living as a contractor, we got married, became UK citizens, and baby on way :)
Good news is that we sorted it all out. I sponsored her on a student visa, she got her second Masters here in the UK, earns a great living as a contractor, we got married, became UK citizens, and baby on way :)
Here's a direct link to the post if you're too lazy to cut and paste like I usually am. I'm thinking you're glad you didn't run away per the suggestions. Me too.
posted by jabberjaw at 11:02 PM on May 20, 2010
posted by jabberjaw at 11:02 PM on May 20, 2010
Congratulations to both of you!
I couldn't be more pleased that you didn't take the advice of everyone that told you to run away.
Best wishes.
posted by goshling at 11:15 PM on May 20, 2010 [2 favorites]
I couldn't be more pleased that you didn't take the advice of everyone that told you to run away.
Best wishes.
posted by goshling at 11:15 PM on May 20, 2010 [2 favorites]
I often agree with advice to dump whomever because I really don't like drama but that one I didn't agree with. just because someone's legal situation is messy doesn't mean they aren't worthy of love. I'm glad you sorted out the legal stuff and congratulations on all the happiness.
posted by shelleycat at 11:22 PM on May 20, 2010 [5 favorites]
posted by shelleycat at 11:22 PM on May 20, 2010 [5 favorites]
Yay! I recently got out of a long immigration wrangle myself. I'm happy to see that things worked out.
posted by Kattullus at 3:35 AM on May 21, 2010
posted by Kattullus at 3:35 AM on May 21, 2010
Congratulations, kiwi.es! That is a wonderful happy ending! (and congratulations to you too, Kattallus!)
I've actually been waiting for 5 years on MeFi for a resolution to that very thread, and now that I have "closure," I can finally leave and never come back to this site - a dank and foetid hole wherein all of humanity's most depraved abominations bite and claw their sloppy way through rivers of self-made filth. Apart from your thread, of course, kiwi.es - that was a nice one. Very little filth in your entire story. And this thread, the follow up - this one is pretty good too. And some of the sidebar comments are quite informative and interesting. Actually, most of the links on the front page today were great too.
But the important thing is, I never ever have to come to this cesspool of spiteful horror ever again, and finally my anxiety is stilled and my--oh yeah AskMe is quite good as well! Anyway - goodbye forever, metafilter, you suppurating carbuncle of vileness!
posted by the quidnunc kid at 3:42 AM on May 21, 2010 [6 favorites]
I've actually been waiting for 5 years on MeFi for a resolution to that very thread, and now that I have "closure," I can finally leave and never come back to this site - a dank and foetid hole wherein all of humanity's most depraved abominations bite and claw their sloppy way through rivers of self-made filth. Apart from your thread, of course, kiwi.es - that was a nice one. Very little filth in your entire story. And this thread, the follow up - this one is pretty good too. And some of the sidebar comments are quite informative and interesting. Actually, most of the links on the front page today were great too.
But the important thing is, I never ever have to come to this cesspool of spiteful horror ever again, and finally my anxiety is stilled and my--oh yeah AskMe is quite good as well! Anyway - goodbye forever, metafilter, you suppurating carbuncle of vileness!
posted by the quidnunc kid at 3:42 AM on May 21, 2010 [6 favorites]
So *this* how babby formed! Congratulations!
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:44 AM on May 21, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:44 AM on May 21, 2010 [1 favorite]
As one of humanity's most depraved abominations, I rarely stop writhing and foaming at the mouth to register anything but my own vileness. Clawing through the self-made filth today I banged my head on the keyboard until this thread somehow appeared, and lo, the light of its happiness pierced the film of rancid GRAR in which I am encrusted. Happy news such as this from beyond the grey pit has given me hope, enough that I could gnaw through the straps and smash out a message of schmoop to brighten the eternal maw of Hell that we call MeTa. The dark ones will take their horrible revenge, of this I am sure, but it is a small price to pay for a candle in this undulating river of bile and blackness.
So to sum up - MetaFilter: The suppurating carbuncle of vileness you can't live without. (and, Congratulations you two.)
posted by Hardcore Poser at 7:04 AM on May 21, 2010 [1 favorite]
So to sum up - MetaFilter: The suppurating carbuncle of vileness you can't live without. (and, Congratulations you two.)
posted by Hardcore Poser at 7:04 AM on May 21, 2010 [1 favorite]
I couldn't be more pleased that you didn't take the advice of everyone that told you to run away.
Yes, this should be required reading for everyone who responds to relationship filter questions.
Also, the first suggestion in the original AskMeta is to check a newsgroup. Times change.
posted by ninebelow at 7:36 AM on May 21, 2010
Yes, this should be required reading for everyone who responds to relationship filter questions.
Also, the first suggestion in the original AskMeta is to check a newsgroup. Times change.
posted by ninebelow at 7:36 AM on May 21, 2010
"..goodbye forever, metafilter, you suppurating carbuncle of vileness!"
This would have been completely awesome if you'd actually closed your account, even for just a day.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 9:12 AM on May 21, 2010
This would have been completely awesome if you'd actually closed your account, even for just a day.
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 9:12 AM on May 21, 2010
I actually remember this thread. Damn. And I am delighted to hear that y'all are happy and good and congratulations, also, on the babby. Sleep now and remember that nothing anyone says in the first 6 weeks should ever be remembered.
But the thing I am spotting now in that thread is that it is the place where languagehat misspelled inamorata.
posted by mygothlaundry at 9:41 PM on May 21, 2010
But the thing I am spotting now in that thread is that it is the place where languagehat misspelled inamorata.
posted by mygothlaundry at 9:41 PM on May 21, 2010
Which (having hit post too soon) is giving me unholy glee, because, man, it turns out that the misspelling is the title of a Pat Benatar album and, dude, hat, Pat Benatar? Hee.
posted by mygothlaundry at 9:43 PM on May 21, 2010
posted by mygothlaundry at 9:43 PM on May 21, 2010
did you use the ya tebya loobloo then mate ? always works for me - keep em happy i say.
posted by sgt.serenity at 4:44 AM on May 22, 2010
posted by sgt.serenity at 4:44 AM on May 22, 2010
*sends gift wrapped hugbucket from china (via slow boat) as christening present*
posted by infini at 7:33 PM on May 23, 2010
posted by infini at 7:33 PM on May 23, 2010
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