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Ok I see. Gotta say, she seemed to gain a tiny bit of experience with men since coming to UK - she said she had makeouts with 2 guys she met at parties / bars she been invited to, in the one and a half years before meeting me. And she said she met a couple of others guys on her degree course who she fancied but was too shy to talk to them etc. She tried some dating app for a bit but told me that the few conversations she had all petered out.
But now this is all beside the point.
I tried your strategy, we chatted via text last night and today, then I tried to make the move you suggested "been thinking about everything that happened blah blah..."
To cut the story short, she basically responded "I care for you deeply, but I don't want to continue a romantic relationship with you. We already said our goodbyes before (referring to the letter). I don't want to continue this conversation...I want and wish the best for you".
So, seems the window of opportunity is truly closed, at least for quite some time.
I will not be contacting her again for a long time, if ever - unless she reaches out first.
A part of me feels very sad for how things went and how stupid I was for not paying to her signals earlier, when she was basically telling me them.
But who knows, some posters here (Teevster) believe that no matter what I would have done, it would have ended the same sooner or later. I don't know.
Another part of me is relieved somehow that I tried my best to reinitiate things (although I get that I weakened my frame a lot). Also relieved that in hindsight, trying to make a future with someone who has hereditary mental problems really isn't a great idea from the perspective of future children, etc, let alone that after all her family background is muslim, and I am not, which could have also caused some friction. I really tried my best to get her interested in certain things I value (like Buddhism, spirituality, exploring the great outdoors) but she wasn't very responsive, so some important values seemed not to align either...
Good that you found perspective on things, and gained a better understanding of the situation.
I think it's unclear if it was salvageable or not, but I concur with @Skills that there were way too many different people contributing different ideas and making it hard to conceptualize things and stick to a plan, which is even more difficult to do when you're emotionally feeling messed up and desperate to find a solution.
I suggest in future when you are faced with a situation like this, choose someone whose advice and outlook on things you respect, and pm them asking for help. These kind of threads can sometimes provide important context, but as prescriptive manuals they are terrible. I usually try to avoid offering specific advice unless someone asks directly for it, and instead limit my input to whatever clarification I can give on the reality of the situation, so that everyone involved can see things maybe a little more clearly.
Anyway, all the best going forward!