JamesPhuket10

The era you are talking about must be the victorian times as my mum who would have been 104 now and my dad 113, they worked all of their lives as did most other couples from their generation and the generations since. Yes, I agree, most of the farang blokes I have come across marry poor Thai women, the reason being they could not get a professional type of Thai so they settle for what they get, and in many cases the woman is with them for their money. Also many of these guys live in Isan and are surrounded by many other poor people, their view of Thailand is biased. I am not a snob and bigot about others, I was merely trying to balance the truth that not all Thais women are poor, there are very many who have made their own way in life, many farangs have never come across such women. I can understand farangs getting upset about the truth I come out with as they are in denial, they have probably already found out why their wife is with them.

It is not, they wanted to charge me 200 baht. Quite a few years ago in Chiang Mai I went to visit a friend from England, he was staying with his Thai wife in one room in a hotel and I was staying in a my own hotel room. At checkout the reception had added 200 baht to my bill as I had brought someone back to the hotel. What had happen is we two blokes went out for a few beers , his wife stayed home so when we arrived back at the hotel, I took my key, his key was with his wife so they put two and two together to and made 5. I soon got the 200 baht cancelled. 🤣

My thought is to ask yourself how much your life is worth to you and then suggest you go about in a Honda car instead of any death trap motorbike. You can open the windows and pretend you are on a bike, better still, wear your crash helmet as well, then you will be super safe, or buy a car and cut the roof off. 😃

And a lot of the rest of them said their partners were only the cashier in the bar so did not count in the bar girl tally. 🙂

No I do not, nor does any other man in the world know the body count of their wives/partners. Nor would we know the bodycount of our sisters, nieces, mothers and grand mothers, do you know any of those body counts related to your family? Plus I know of course women who have had boyfriends before we met them will not be virgins. But they will not have the so called bodycount of a prostitute anywhere in the world as if the prostitute had not had thousands of blokes then they are in the wrong job. In fact I have never heard of bodycount before in this respect. What surprises me is if a woman can sell her body in such a way instead of getting one of the millions of other jobs in Thailand then they will not think twice about screwing the stupid farang out of his money and wring him out to dry, don't these fools realise this. But it does make me laugh. Wow this is the longest ever session I have had on this blog. I am supposed to be doing some code and test for an iPhone app, but it is OK to skive now and then I suppose.

Yes, I just realised that, sorry old chap, it won't happen again. 😀

Here we go, once I answer your question I will be accused of lying, but here goes any way. I met her on her birthday 25 years ago, her friends invited me to the restaurant and that is where we met. She had a tour company in Phuket, selling trips to James Bond Island for example, plus many other destinations, I think back in those days her income was around 100k baht a month from commissions. She worked for many years. She bought land in Phuket 30 years ago but did not use it at the time. Later on she built five houses on it and rented them out. She also built four houses in the Nakhon Si Thammarat area when she is from. So no she does not work anymore and lives off the rents. I do not work anymore and live off my pensions and rent from property in the UK. Now let the mud slinging start.

Yes, I think a lot of guys are married or have Thai ex bar girls and so to justify the fact they have to pay for them and their family they make up stories about costly ex wives in the West, and some even say buying dinner for a woman is the same as paying for her. If a woman buys dinner for us does that mean we have been bought? 😄 And yes in my experience many guys in Thailand seem to hang around with such girls, their friends do the same so in their own circle that is what they experience and think it is the norm.

You said: "My wife never worked" That is not the norm, most women around the Western world work unless they have very young children of course, many then go back to work later.

And if I had a 1000 baht for every farang who tells me on this forum or otherwise their Thai wives costs them an arm and a leg then I would be driving a Rolls Royce I suppose. There are is seem so many stupid guys on this forum and in Thailand relating to this issue, I suppose most have no choice but to pay for their wives or girlfriends otherwise they would not have one, they then claim it is the norm as they know no better. What about Thai women who have their own business and money, I suppose most farangs have never come across any of them as that type of Thai woman would never go to those sort of bars. In fact the vast majority of Thai women do not drink, but that is more than made up for by the Isan bar girls who drink like fish. 😃

That is why I have a dash cam in my car, front and back.

The cost to me with my long time Thai partner is zero. She has her own income/properties and I have mine (but mine are sensibly in the UK). But I suppose a lot of guys have ex bar girls as wives/partners as they are the only ones who would go with them. But I don't understand why a lot of guys say their wives etc in Australia or the UK are expensive, as far as I have seen in my lifetimes is both the male and female work thus earning money, on many instances the women earn more than men.

"Regarding 1000+ body count, that's only possible with hookers. No way a normal guy can pick up 1000 women in one lifetime, unless you're a rock star. " That was my point as well. "Women will generally not date down." So if a woman is running a successful business and making a lot of money, maybe she will also expect you to be a high status man. So these women are not necessarily easy to get for a lot of men." That was also my point, as I said these guys never get to meet such women. "Also, regarding buying long term sex. You don't necessarily need to see it in such a negative / cynical light. Another way to look at it is the man is raising the woman's standard of living. And that's her only hope. Is that such a bad thing?" I know of some Thai women who came from nothing and went on to create a business and became well off, they would never have considered the bar girl route. "Is that such a bad thing?" It is bad for the stupid farangs as I have seen on very many occasions after loosing their house etc, as far as I have seen the cases involved ex-bargirl wives. "It's only a problem is the woman feels "trapped" there and doesn't want to be with the man and is only using him or screws him over later after the house is paid. " That is usually the point where the farang is kicked out or the house is sold while he is away overseas.

That is true, I never thought about it that way, when I was young and very drunk and had sex it must have been rape as well.😄 Right, I will have to call 911.

Oh yes, I forgot about that, oh yes and they had to pay for the sick buffalo as well. 🤣 One guy told me after about five years had passed, his wife told him he had to do what she tells him to do under the threat she will kick him out of the house which he had bought. What a situation to be in.