I fought this for a year and have to finally admit that I've failed. My husband has returned to Russia and he intends to stay there, marry another woman and pursue his beliefs in Anastasia. The really sad part is that I'm currently pregnant with what would have been his first child. As it was not conceived in the Anastasia way, he wants nothing to do with either one of us. If anyo
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QuotedsmMy goodness! There has got to be a way you can get him to start trying to apply enough of his dream in your present setting so that he can discover the obstacles for himself, since he apparently is explaining away anything you show him in media that is an obstacle for others. You know, I have been prone to the "back to eden" syndrome and I found that a few half-way measures c
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He's seen "Into the Wild" and he seems to really glorify this, despite the fact that Christopher McCandless died a pretty horrible death at the end. He'll be different. But, that's not what he really wants to do anyway. He wants to have a house, electricity (off the grid, of course) and all of that. He just believes that we have to grow our own food and live in a secl
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He's not going to meetings or anything at the moment, only because there really are none. There are forums that he posts on devoted to this and he's surrounded himself with like minded people, but nothing formal. I've asked him to see a counselor on several occasions and he refused. Apparently, Anastasia is the best counselor there is and all he needs to do is to keep reading th
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Hi everyone. I joined this forum to seek advice and information about this group and this is my first post here. My husband has been reading this series of books for some time now and has encouraged me to read them as well. While there's some good information here and there... they're obviously fiction. Obviously. But, my husband believes every word of them. Every last word. He
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