But aside from this extreme side of things, many people will simply behave like total shitburgers so long as they can tell themselves that they’re good people, even if there aren’t actually consistent morals/values present. Some would be able to make up a whole justified narrative as to why they stole two children from their mother and fled the country, but couldn’t make up one about why they ditched their wife and children. “Lol Olly is a failure piece of shit loser like we all knew he was who failed at America & abandoned his kids with his fat fuck Humpty Dumpty wife” might not go over so well in the masculinity department as “Poor Olly valiantly rescued his children from the fat American whore in order to properly raise them here in Egypt” or some shit. I have no idea if this is how bro would be received by his friends/family either way, but it’s definitely possible. Especially if he ultimately could just pawn off the kids on his mom or sister or whatever and go find some chubby lady to plow who is at least able to wash herself. (

note: the guy might actually love his kids too

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Can you imagine slowly becoming more and more aware of American culture and how you’re living and how you’re perceived, seeing it less and less relative-to-life-in-Egypt but just relative-to-other-Americans, improving your English and becoming more culturally literate in general, as it slowly dawns on you that you’re living with sentient garbage in an actual garbage dump and thousands of people are laughing at her every day? I’d throw my kids on a plane and gtfo too lol
ETA: I love that this thread/situation is so dark that my positing that Olly might be a borderline sociopath who kidnaps his children to dump with a relative is

jfc Amy get it together