DeathShroud

For certain this happens. For the 9 years I've been here.

All of this. All.

When my marriage visa was up in July we did exactly that so I'm on a retirement Visa now... Again.

I'm 58 my wife is 43. I'm retired from the US military so I'm living a quiet life. We have a house near Chiang Mai that we rent and then we are buying a house in her home village. She's a government officer roughly the equivalent of lieutenant colonel. She was a government officer when I met her. She doesn't want to quit her job because she actually likes the work and she's good at it. She wants to have her retirement plus she needs the healthcare benefits for her aging parents who are both 77. So I get health care from her government plan also. So I'm not lonely because I'm an introvert and I write so when I'm home alone it's just me with my calculator and math books writing science fiction. We have two kids that are five and seven. A lot of driving between the city and the schools and her work but it's what it is. We're saving money and I'm alone most of the day but that gives me time to write. I would never ask her to quit her job, basically we're saving a pile of money for the kids because we know that I'm going to expire first, statistically.