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You have to read the whole article. Once in Bangladesh, he wanted them to stay with him. NOW, I'm not saying that this is sleazy and horrible, but it's not like he just upped and abandoned her. She made the choice to come back to the United States. She could have been living in the lap of luxury with her husband in Bangladesh. It's cultural. She married him without knowing him...why would it be outrageous for him to be making all the decisions without including her in the decision making. Seems she's the one caught between the two cultures.

Once in Bangladesh, he wanted them to stay with him. NOW, I'm not saying that this is sleazy and horrible, but it's not like he just upped and abandoned her. She made the choice to come back to the United States. She could have been living in the lap of luxury with her husband in Bangladesh.

Just like any other woman who marries a Muslim.

I know I'm not supposed to talk to you, but this is just too much. I read the whole article and the choice that hubby gave this woman was life in the U.S. or "a life of luxury" in a hellhole. Which amounts to what? A three room mud hut with two chamber pots?

Also, did you skip the part where he threatened to keep the kids and "send her packing", and when she looked in her purse, discovered that her husband had taken the money, passports, and credit cards? So what you are saying is that this is a sound form of "outrageous decision making".

I try not to get too worked up over the bitter divorced guys here, and there are a couple on this thread. I was 19 yrs. old when my first husband abandoned me and my two babies. Moaning and groaning about it would be so low class. I got a job and a new life. I almost got a bed in a shelter, too.
Another woman in the same situation helped me and I didn't have to suffer that humiliation. And that's just what it is...guys get to be drunks in bars, crying in their beer, and jilted wives get a bunk in a feminist prison camp with the frightened screeching babies.

Very simply, there is right and there is wrong. If you can point out one single thing that this man did right, I will depart the field. Use any standard you want. What good or right or decent or fair thing did this man do for his wife and three small children?

p.s. Not to get personal, but are you a divorced man who got left with nothing? Because if you are, then at least we have that in common.