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Move,, to another town,, or at least another house in a different area. Pay her money , week/monthly, enough to keep her away.
Cambodia,,,, Don't fall in love with her.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
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If u were legally married ur going to need a divorce an she is entitled to 50% of what u have

if u only lived together an she was what you say, u took 2 years out f her life, surely u must feel u owe her something for that.

If she will talk to you without getting emotional, try an work it out, offer to take care of her for 6 months or more

if not, run, dont walk away
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I'd also suggest to disappear. Next time you'll be wiser. Rent secretly a new apartment. Give her a 100 bucks and send her to her family in the jungle for a day. When she's back you will be gone. Also change your phone number and don't frequent your usual hangouts for a while. If she knows your working place - nah well, that's real shit.
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Cam Nivag wrote:Marrying an impoverished Cambodian woman and living with her for two years and then suddenly throwing her out of the house and saying "get lost, just keep the ring" is a dickish and unreasonable thing to do. She's your wife, you should make arrangements so that she isn't homeless and is taken care of and she can transition into a stable environment.

If you want out of the marriage, you should move out of the house, tell her you'll pay the rent for a reasonable period of time until she makes other arrangements, and yes, give her money to help her get back on her feet.
Yes, exactly what Cam Nivag says. When she arrives, you start talking. You tell her you are sorry for the way you treated her (try not to gag) and tell her what you're going to do for her in purely business tones. If you're on a lease, you pay the rent till the end. Give her some spending money. You tell her you're moving out. In fact, you might want to start looking today and get your things out of there pronto! After you inform her, say goodbye. It's possible she might want to find another place. But don't stay in the house while she looks. You're going to regret that as it will be the same poor environment you were trying to escape.
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Not to sure how relevant this is, but my situation from a few years back.
I hooked up with a very sweet, not so pretty, country girl after about 6 months of working together. At this point i was always on a countdown to heading home, so i knew from the outset that it would not be a permanent thing. Then as things developed, i got offered jobs that kept me in the kingdom, and my partner and I together. After four years together i opened my own business here and i knew i would be here for a long time. It still took me another two years to get the balls to act and be honest with my partner. i was 23 when we met, and this had been my longest relationship by far.
When the time came i explained the situation, i didn't love her and that we needed to break up. She had worked hard with me on the business, so i did what i felt was fair. As we lived in the business, we broke up about 3 months before i expected her to leave, it wasn't the most pleasant 3 months for me, but i think kicking to the curb that day would have been less pleasant for her. Between my saving and what i could borrow from Acelida, i managed to scrap together 10K which i gave her the day she left, having explained beforehand that this is what i would do. Now five years later i still send $100-$200 a month to help her. People tell me that i have been kind and good, but honestly, when i look at the situation, letting her believe for many years that we would be together indefinitely, her enjoying and becoming accustomed to a western standard of living, and then taking it all away from her, i still feel like a cunt. It must be stressed that she never really did anything bad to me, and i always knew that i would not marry her. So i felt/feel that i was in the wrong.
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phuketrichard wrote:If u were legally married ur going to need a divorce an she is entitled to 50% of what u have

if u only lived together an she was what you say, u took 2 years out f her life, surely u must feel u owe her something for that.

If she will talk to you without getting emotional, try an work it out, offer to take care of her for 6 months or more

if not, run, dont walk away
phuketrichard raises an interesting point here about whether they were actually married. Many posters here refer to Cambodian girlfriends as "wife," and now he's immediately calling her "ex wife" based on throwing her out of the house, I think it's important to know if they were actually married.

If so, I imagine he will need to get a real divorce, otherwise neither one of them can get married in the future, this is something he should try to do now rather than later and get her cooperation on.

I think that throwing her out (instead of moving put himself) and then immediately telling the Khmer neighbors that he had thrown her out was perhaps a bad way to go about it and moving forward he should consider assisting her with any opportunities to "save face."
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Duncan wrote:Move,, to another town,, or at least another house in a different area. Pay her money , week/monthly, enough to keep her away.
I agree with this, I'm a little troubled when the OP says he will give her money "for food," I think she would reasonably expect more than 6000 riel a day or something.
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if you have a mistress/gf. go to thailand immediately.

if not, offer her everything as a one off divorce settlement & shag her best girl friend. :evil:
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That's not the way people did it in Zimbabwe.
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