Naughty chat....

I'm really sorry to hear that Don't know what to say. Maybe she's having a bad day and will calm down about stuff later. It is very hard but hopefully love will pull through and win the day. Thinking of you.

Maybe. She has had to wait whilst a divorce dragged out, whilst I was offered a post in the Philippines which did not come off, and now this. Thanks for your thoughts.

While there is light at the end of the tunnel, which there is, just go for it, Andrew. There are times in our lives where we have to forget our dignity. This is one of them. It doesnt matter if an ECO in Manila gets a peek into out lives. When they have seen one application they have seen them all. I am sure one application blends into another over the course of their week.

Pull yourself together Andrew, where's that bulldog spirit?, you're just an application away from your dream of you and the missus coming to our great land.

Kiss and make up, you know it makes sense

We went over the top with our chat logs I think I sent them over 100 pages, I just wanted to give the ECO something to do that day!!

I erased the chat/conversation with a marker and only leaving the chat log. I find it off to show ECO I was bitching about a co-worker

Just a 100 pages Rick, a mere snippet compared with some here

We've done about 100 pages too. Haven't erased anything but made sure we didn't include anything rude or any slating of the powers that be

Wise decision Lisa

Wow!!! I thought we had gone over the top. We basically included snippets of the conversations from each week, I didn't want to go to in-depth with it I just wanted to prove we had a constant line of communication

I edited out anything that was too personal. There were enough other conversations to fill reams of paper, LisaUK

We also selected chat that showed intent. Plans for our future. In Lisas case, wedding plans within the chat are surely a good idea.....as in " well i received a reply from the cake people and they estimate it will cost such and such quids and I really like that two tiered one with the pink ribbon" etc etc

Hmm well we are both of the same mindset - we don't talk too much about the future because we don't want the disappointment of failure. We'd rather think it more likely we'll fail - then we'll be happy if we get it but not completely devastated if we don't (because we'll be prepared). Hope that makes sense. But yeah, we don't talk much about future plans. I just don't want to build myself up too much about it, in case it's refused And most of what we have said on the subject seems to have been done on the phone There are a few bits in there but not much.

We cherry picked out chat that included future plans, where there was any.

i have the same mindset. but my lady is a very determined woman.

I'm also very determined. I don't handle failure very well though - but then I pick myself up and get even more determined ​