Terminal AFC

Yet another example of how dangerous an extreme being an AFC can be taken to. As some of you know, I've had 2 very close friends commit suicide over an inability to disabuse themselves from their 'soulmate' psychosis. This story illustrates not only the permanent damage surrounding AFCness (for lack of a better term), but also the outsider's view of it going on and the social stigma associated with intervening in what's observed to be a potential disaster.

Dating Scam Ends in Murder

Be warned, this is pretty pathetic

I don't know who's more fvcked up - the AFC or the couple who robbed and killed him.

Hell, they're both pretty fvcked up.

People in 3rd world countries are much more likely to commit AWFUL AWFUL crimes for $? Whereas, in the US they do it just for thrills.

Are all mail order bride deals proof of AFCism? Who knows. If you are some ordinary middle class American and you are importing the top neuroscientist from Moscow, maybe you are getting dollar value.

The mail order thing mustn't be all bad if the feminists hate it so much. This story illlustrates a theory of Dr Warren Farrell which states that when women kill men, they kill for money and they use a man to do the dirty work. When a man kills a women its more likely that she just showed him a Polaroid of his best friend half way up her, and its not premeditated.

it just goes to show you..be carefull of both your fears and desires,either one is a weakness and can get you both killed.I feel safer facing my fears then giving into my desires or promise of the object of my desires..why? because you never know,what you want could be used to sucker you into something you never expected..like getting robbed like an idiot.
if you know you're ugly and have no game and a beautyfull girl approaches you..somethings up, you're much too ugly and she's much too hot,theres no way in hell she wants anything to do with you and this ain't no movie.
i kind of dispise really hot good looking girls that act like they can just flirt away and get whatever they want in life..dosen't work on me, good looks is no excuse for poor behavior..

also this guy was a bit naive. i mean, yes, with 3rd world women it's possible they want a american guy for money/better life, but common she was a little too good looking for him. he should have been on guard... not talking about "pure love" nonsense with a woman he hasn't met in person.

it's sad though, preying on a poor AFC guy like that. he was probably lonely and fell victim easy. i hope they get locked up for good.

Rollo Tomassi said:

Yet another example of how dangerous an extreme being an AFC can be taken to. As some of you know, I've had 2 very close friends commit suicide over an inability to disabuse themselves from their 'soulmate' psychosis. This story illustrates not only the permanent damage surrounding AFCness (for lack of a better term), but also the outsider's view of it going on and the social stigma associated with intervening in what's observed to be a potential disaster.

Dating Scam Ends in Murder

Be warned, this is pretty pathetic

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Pathetic or not, I hope those pieces of crap get the chair or whatever equivalent they have there.

"I thought, `This is going a little fast,' but I didn't want to sound critical," said Merrill's sister, Marcia Sanchez Loebick.

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This was what got me most about the whole incident. It's simply this accepted social grace that we ought not to become involved in other peoples affairs when it comes to romantic relations. In this case his sister's inaction literally cost him his life. I know so many men who've made devestating personal decisions in this area (and yes, this is the extreme result of being an AFC), but those family and friends who share their mytholgy and their delusions are the first to defend the AFC with "Why do you have to be such a cynic? Can't you see they're in love? If it makes him happy why do you have to destroy that?" or Why can't you just LET them be happy?" It's this very attitude that guys in their 60s wish someone would've been more critical of after 4 marriages and a string of dependent children. And at the extreme is the guy with a noose around his neck, swallowing a bullet, or strangled and burned in Brazil.

skip2mylou781 said:

He was not AFC, he was INSANE.

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I would argure that being an AFC IS a mental disorder.

This is basically Thailand in a nutshell.

I haven’t told anyone of this before, but I think it is appropriate here.

I spent a whole summer vacation in Thailand by myself, as I wanted to get away from everything and drown my sorrows in booze and hookers. I was staying in Pattaya, which has a lot of mongers and ex-pats, and of course tons of bars and Thai girls straight from Issan.

There was this local bar sports bar where I used to hang out every night. I meet this 40ish Brit there. He and his wife were separated, so he had packed up his bags and left for Thailand to get away from it all. Over a couple of weeks we became decent friends; we would hang out and shoot the piss every night. He had saved up a pretty sum (about £ 200,000) and wanted to enjoy life. I remember him to be a very outgoing and happy guy. Of course he was sad about the separation, but he looked onward as he wanted to settle in Thailand for good and open up a bar.

He had been there for 5 months, and had already found himself a Thai girl that he was seeing on a regular basis. It came to the point where she moved in with him and he was happy as a pig in sh!t. One night he came running to the bar I was at. He was happy as hell because he had spoken to his wife back in the UK and they had decided that they would give it another go. He was in the clouds, and was really looking forward to meeting his wife and 2 year old kid again. He had bought plane tickets and was scheduled to leave Thailand for good in a week’s time.

I told him that his Thai gf might not like it and that he should leave for Bangkok ASAP and not tell her. But he said he had it all worked out. He had given his Thai gf £10,000 (which is sh!tloads of money in LOS) and explained everything to her. I told him that he was making a mistake and the he should leave now because you never knew how a Thai gf would act. He patted me on the back, told me not to worry, bought me a drink and went home.

That was the last time I saw him alive.

Two days later I saw a picture of his apartment in the newspaper. It felt like the whole world came crashing down when I read the article. According to the article had been going through some serious depression for several months and decided he couldn’t take it anymore, so he jumped from the 6th floor of his apartments building. There was even a picture of his Thai gf ‘crying’ her eyes out, but she was referred to as his ‘wife’.

Now tell me, why would a guy that was in cloud nine the night before jump out a building for no apparent reason?

That night when I was at the bar, the bartender, who was an American ex-pat, took me aside and told me to pack my sh!t and get the hell out of dodge as fast as my feet could take me. He told me that the Brit’s gf really had a Thai husband and that they wanted to get hold of his (the Brit’s) money. According to him, this was usual in Pattaya and he showed me several similar stories in the newspapers about guys committing suicide by taking a leap from a balcony. He said that none of those things were suicides, but rather the Thai gf deciding that she wanted money. He also said that the Brit’s gf had been around the bar with several Thai men, looking for me and advised me strongly to get the hell out of Thailand.

I wrote out a long letter explaining everything to the British embassy, gave them my contact info and got on the first plane out of there. As far as I know the case is closed as another suicide.

skip2mylou781 you just came off as a stereotypical American who never left the country and makes his ideas about the world from mediocre Hollywood movies. Calling Slovakia a 3rd world country where tourists get lured by hot chicks only to get tortured is so ridiculous it is not even worth explaining how wrong you are. You're better off chasing your little myspace girls that making statements about things you have absoultely no clue about.

I’m a bit concerned that, even in this place, others missed your point. I had thought, that here, a cogent comprehension of the innate assumptions of the man in the story would stir a little renaissance of thought on being a don. It did not. Not yet…..anyone??

did anyone read the part where the bf got away because there is a brazilian law where u can have anyone in jail the day before or after an election, wtf is that? smh

temp_login said:

skip2mylou781 you just came off as a stereotypical American who never left the country and makes his ideas about the world from mediocre Hollywood movies. Calling Slovakia a 3rd world country where tourists get lured by hot chicks only to get tortured is so ridiculous it is not even worth explaining how wrong you are. You're better off chasing your little myspace girls that making statements about things you have absoultely no clue about.

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