Yellowtail

Again, what specifically would you have the police do? What law is being broken by the boy and/or his mother? In any event, I doubt your obvious contempt for the mother and (apparently) Thais in general is helping anything.

What specifically would you have the police do? Saying enforce the law, or that the child must be returned by law is a non-answer. Again, you are going to have to bite the bullet and perhaps grovel a bit to get on reasonable terms with the wife. She holds all the cards, except that she cannot physically keep the child from you, which she is not doing.

Perhaps the mother knows/thinks that unless the child is very successful, without the right "connections", life can be pretty tough. How old are you are how old is the wife? The wife may think she will end up dependent on the child long after you're gone. I would much rather my kid be doing homework than getting loaded.

90% of it.

No doubt Trump planted it there before he left with the nuclear codes... (just kidding)

If the shoe fits

Cat by the tail...

Walking on eggshells

Bird brain

Head screwed on right

More holes than a Swiss cheese

The world is your oyster

bug in your ear

A lot of people do not have (for whatever reason) a credit card.

Do you not have a credit card?

Dude's (apparently) been married ten years and has a young (7-8?) with her. The number of guys here suggesting he kick her to the curb and move on is a bit disturbing, albeit not surprising.

I do not remember my father EVER even going to the grocery store with my mother. Nor do I remember my mother going to the hardware store auto parts store with my father.

You have no idea how to get the boy back, so you dodge any questions by pretending you've already answered them, now you're pretending you'll answer if PMed. How funny is that?

Wind-driven turbine....

The tests are performed under laboratory conditions and the units that typically rate best are designed to perform best under those particular conditions, not the real-world conditions your unit will be operating in. If a unit is designed to operate most efficiently with a small temperature differential, it will not be most efficient operating high temperature differential. Compare the cassette units with the wall units from the same manufacturer. The wall units always test better, but in the real world, the cassettes are most always more efficient.

You said: "...- although I work almost all night, I often have to step in and take our son to school because she is busy playing or tired from long session..." And: "Every time I bring this up she gets very defensive and if I insist on talking she will fight. She says it's a harmless hobby and she does it because she has no job." Why can she not get a job while the id is at school?

Anyone else like Salad Factory?

"Happiness is not getting what you want, it's wanting what you have."

That's what I thought, dodging any questions by pretending you've answered them, and that you've grown tired of the discussion. You have no idea how to get the boy back.