I think the damage is done by whatever the mother, mamasan and the girls tell her, rather the number of clients.
For example, I came across a guy who had to give his missus 1500B every time he had a jump, she wanted the cash to send home to her mum, she came from p2p and continued (1500 wasn’t enough, so she started on the free market too)
I have had problems with my wife with other Thai people getting in her ear. Just stupid things, we changed our house number because it wasn’t lucky (ff..) we already had one house number, but when returning to the “farang” wife club with the news she was told that it was unlucky and she should pay 1000B to change it. “Dont tell your husband, he doesn’t have the money and will be angry” - yes, I don’t yet qualify for a fat pension like their husbands, but the cheek to say I would be angry, so she changed the number behind my back, and then told me the story of how she felt belittled by the group of ex-bg’s.
We have been married for 20th ears, generally free from these situations, but there have been a couple of times like this over the past years since we moved back to Issan. Living in the south, she worked in a kindergarten, southern women tend not to see the bars as a quick way to make money, and her life was stable, being around normal working people.
If people think you can take the bar out of a girl, then they must just be oblivious to the lies.