How long until you tied the knot

[colinneil]

2 minutes ago, thaiguzzi said:

5 years before married.

2 years of living together prior.

Known her for 18 years.

Been married 13 years in May.

Anything else?

You lived in sin for 2 years !!!! I am shocked.

Met my wife, got married 9 months later, celibate until married.

Touching was not allowed, after we marry, you can do what you want, she said, now you can do nothing.

[billd766]

I met my Thai wife in 1993 but we didn't marry until 2000 so that will be 19 years next month.

 

When I met her I was still married in the UK and working for a UK based company offshore. I didn't get divorced from my UK wife until 1999 and then had to arrange the wedding at a UK registry office while I was working in Paris and my Thai lady was living in Bangkok.

 

I could only get my UK friends to the wedding and we spent our honeymoon in Paris, Brussels, Keukenhof, the tulip capital of Holland, and Wiesbaden in Germany.

 

After the honeymoon she went back to BKK and I went back to Paris to get a visa sorted out for her, but I got another job in Hannover and had to start the visa process all over again.

Edited March 5, 2018 by billd766
Edited for bad spelling after I had checked and posted it

[ToddinChonburi]

4 years and waiting !!!

[federico]

Met her in 2009, then she came and stay with me in Paris for 3 months as legally she couldn't stay more than 6 months on a period of 1 year, then back to Thailand and back to france 3 months and so on for 2 years. Good to learn to know each other but anyway i decided to trust my intuition. Married in 2011. Still together living in Paris. Meeting her is the best "thing" that has happened to me. 

[pgrahmm]

Two years was the "vetting" period...You get to know somebody,  their friends, habits, disposition, work ethic, beliefs pretty well by that time....

Couldn't find any real faults or red flags.....

All these years later, two daughters & still not a red flag.....

Couldn't imagine life without her....Never any drama, and seldom a trying moment.....

[brewsterbudgen]

Mine was just a regular for about 3 years before things slowly got more serious and then a baby came along. Marriage makes parenthood easier here, especially when married to a non-Thai, so we married. The little lad is now 3, and all is going well, despite a rather large age gap[emoji5]

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[Bendi]

Whent to pattaya in 2005. 3 week holliday with my cousin. Met a girl, same age as me. Fell in love. I went home. We talked on the phone the next 7 months. Went back to thailand on my next holliday. Got maried. 

3months later i pick here uo at the airport in my country. Lived there for 4 years. Then moved to Thailand. 

Stil married to my belowed whife. Having a good time in Isane.

Living of the land, working together. Maybee not rich, but a rich life.

[NoshowJones]

I was wife my wife five years before we married.

[roo860]

I was wife my wife five years before we married.

2 wives?
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[smotherb]

4 hours ago, petermik said:

And the "butt" now is.............

Well, the butt was only one of the many things that were nice about her then. However, they all still are; she keeps herself in great shape. When she and I and our 31 year old son are out together, they think she is his girlfriend. His friends and mine think she is hot. I am quite proud of how she still looks, but that pales in comparison to what she has done and of what she is still capable.  

[rasg]

We met in January 2015. Four trips to Thailand between January and two visit visas that overlapped and we married in the UK in June 2016. I waited until I was 59 to get married for the first time and she was and is a keeper. Can't imagine life without her.

[Acemaker]

20 hours ago, Jip99 said:

11 years...

 

 

Still waiting to be sure....

OP, who gives a Monkeys, its your decision, another futile subject, Sheesh.

[roo860]

OP, who gives a Monkeys, its your decision, another futile subject, Sheesh.

He seems to.

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[fordguy61mi]

We were together for 2 years before getting married. Best thing I've ever done. She makes me laugh and keeps me young at heart.

[MyFriend You]

When I gave her a Thousand Dollars to take home to her family during Tet, and she brought $550 back.......that was 22 years ago we have been living together ever since.  BTW before anyone asks, we are still not "married" in the traditional sense - I don't need a piece of paper to tell me I am married.  I don't believe in the institution of Marraige, it has been a cash cow for so many for far too long.  I am beneficiary on her insurance, bank accounts and she is mine.  The only hangup is in Thailand - having a time getting a will for her to be beneficiary to my Condo there.  Thailand requires her to be my wife . No Problem for Vietnam, easy as pie.

Edited March 5, 2018 by TunnelRat69

[Rodwalloper]

5 hours ago, Acemaker said:

 

 

Edited March 5, 2018 by Rodwalloper

[Rodwalloper]

5 hours ago, Acemaker said:

OP, who gives a Monkeys, its your decision, another futile subject, Sheesh.

plenty of people responding, they are sharing stories, expressing their feelings for their wives.

you however, miserable as hell, so miserable in fact you respond to a thread you dont like.

you are so transparent its hilarious.

[ericthai]

Spent 8 years with my wife before we got married.  

[cliveshep]

3 days after we first met in her sister's house on 20th October 2011 where I stayed for a week. Buddhist Wedding including sin sot. We met online, in the previous June while I was going through divorce from a evil nut-case of a wife. Spent until the October with g-mail at first, graduating to daily Skype for hours in the evening backed up by google translate and messaging.

 

She was gorgeous looking, 38 years my junior and I was a chancer but she said yes. Figure well-nigh perfect, skin flawless, and a beauty of character as well as body.

 

Came back to Thailand end of January 2012, rented an apartment and we honeymooned for a month having a lovely time. Both of us converted to Christianity.  Back in the UK struggled to get her a fiancee visa, eventually chucking agencies and doing it myself, came out with my daughter a week after she got the visa, 2nd week of August 2012, spent a week here, took her to Chiang Mai so she could go on a plane for the 1st time in her life - the take-off roll terrified her, I swear I still have scars in my arm from her fingers gripping me.

 

Took her to the UK end of that week, Got legally married in our Pentecostal Church in the UK, incredible Thai wedding dress she brought with her, on October 20th, exactly one year to the day after the Buddhist ceremony.

 

Lived and worked in the UK until I retired, unable on a pension to meet Theresa May's crass income requirements we knew the writing was on the wall so made plans after 3 years to come to Thailand, sold boats, cars and house, bought a shipping container and sent it off and flew out from Heathrow on.........October 20th AGAIN 2015.

 

Just applied for my 3rd annual extension based on marriage, We have a better house - detached 5 bedroom all air-con and with 4 bathrooms - than we could have aspired to in the UK, a better car and TWO motorbikes. We also have 4 dogs. We love each other still, only been 7 years now of course, and although money is very tight we have a good life. She doesn't have a job, she attends University until the end of this year. When she graduates she wants to get a job in the Government because it pays a pension. Also although I'll miss her during the daytimes it will alleviate the financial situation as following the death of one sister's husband and the abandonment of the other sister and son by her husband I now get to feed 5 adults, 8 dogs, two rabbits, one guinea pig, run 3 cars, 5 cell phones,  etc.

 

Somehow the money almost makes it, the rest is almost gone savings! But - I wouldn't swop my situation with her!

[Mangkhut]

Why ruin a great relationship with goverment and or religious authorities involved rituals and laws? 

[zoza]

when i got married in Udon Thani about 14 years ago there was ten Farangs

with their wives/gf in attendance.

Today there is only one bloke still with his wife/gf....yes he is rumored to be

a millionaire...he was the one with the big money....just saying

[martin26]

Met June 9th 2004 married July 23rd 2004 still going strong