And what was more astonishing was the complete set of recordings.

She submitted recordings of our conversations - dating back all the way to our
first date. She was running a recorder (on her phone maybe?) continuously during
our dates and she recorded all of our phone conversations. She attached parts of
our conversations that would represent me as ‘horny American’ when we were just
mindlessly flirting or joking. I am not sure if she recorded our sex but she didn’t
submit anything because -surprise- I didn’t rape my wife and it would just show two
people having…. just vanilla sex.

Was she just trying to rip money off of me all this time? Like a fake Asian
marriage for status or quick lawsuit money? But that didn’t make sense at all. I
was just a poor teacher and I didn’t have any money to begin with. My wife and her
parents were completely fine with that and it was her parents who willingly paid
for the apartment down payment and all the furniture etc. (I paid for the wedding).
That cost them well above $20,000. They were genuinely trying to make their
daughter settle down with me and were hoping for a good life. What the fuck?
Nothing made sense.

At the time of the divorce lawsuit, Korea was going through the ‘metoo’ movement
and the whole society was extremely sensitive to women claiming to be sexually
abused. My wife took full advantage of this and did a great job presenting herself
as the helpless meek Korean woman who was powerless before a predatory American man
who tricked her into marriage and raped her over and over. Took a while for me to
recover, but eventually I got my shit together and hired a lawyer to fight back.
But the outcome wasn’t looking great. It was basically her words and recordings vs
my words and domestic cases claiming sexual abuse were extremely favoring women at
the time in Korea.

But as the trial progressed with papers and rebuttals being submitted week after
week - she made a mistake. She claimed that I showed up near her place to threaten
her at a certain time. But I wasn’t there and Korea has CCTVs everywhere to prove
where I was instead. She lost some credibility to her story because of this
incident and the judge ultimately ruled in my favor. The domestic abuse charge was
dropped and her $20,000 settlement request was denied.

So I was married for 2 weeks and got divorced soon after. I won the lawsuit but I
didn’t. What the fuck was this all for? I still don’t understand.

Reddit - Is it possible that her mental disorders can manifest in such a short
period of time? Over two weeks of marriage? Or was she hiding it from me? The whole
family?

Why the fuck were they all recording everything?

To me It genuinely felt like they wanted this marriage to work out. But at first
sign of conflict they distanced everything and sued me. I don’t understand.

My life is in ruins.

This actually happened 5 years ago and I never really recovered. I have a hard time
trusting anyone. Every night, thoughts run wild with regret and speculations and
endless questions. I genuinely loved this woman. I thought she loved me too. I
really thought we had a great start (for 2 weeks…) until she left and sued me. Why
did they do this? Were they hoping for the best outcome but at the same time
preparing for the worst? Why blame everything on me?