My speedometer has gone backwards

[Kar98]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

One of my best friends, an athletic 6'5" guy, fell in love with and married a diminutive Russian woman who was in the U.S. as an Au Pair. Later, her under 10 year old daughter (who spoke very little English, and was being cared for by the grandmother in Moscow) came over to live with them (he agreed to that before the marriage). Still later, the mother-in-law came over to live with them (NO prior agreement). After that, the mother-in-law's EX-husband (his wife's EX-stepfather) came over for a planned visit (and it ended as such). While the EX was visiting, he said to my friend "If you can live with these 3 women, you are a better man than I am" . My friend and his wife split up before their 5th anniversary. They waited a bit to divorce (he didn't want any of them to not be able to stay in the U.S.).

I've heard that very same story so many times and witnessed it playing out first hand.