New Home Country. For Thais this time around.

[swissie]

My Thai wife is now 20 years in my home country. Just back from her annual visit to Thailand. To visit daughters/family. She came back in some sort of a "somber mood". She claims that Thailand has not changed for the better.

Complaining that 1 part of her Thai Family is well educated, with good jobs (financed by her), but still always short of money. The other part of her family is less educated and also always short of money, naturally. With a granddaughter, growing up in the Bangkok smog.

The plan was, that after my demise, she would return to Thailand in old age. (Home country/family etc etc etc). Not anymore. She has made it clear, that after 20 years of residency in this small country in the middle of Europe is now her "Home Country", not Thailand anymore.

She claims, that Thailand has given her nothing but hard labor, humiliation and Thai males that have seen a wife as something as a "sex slave" with a marriage certificate. (Long before some Europeans came to Thailand, looking for "sex-slaves"). That was her time in Thailand in her younger years.

Then came the "white knight". = ME. She insists, that the "white knight" was the best thing that ever happened to her, elevating her from an underpriviledged lifelong Thai existance. We both like the way things have turned out.   

 

[still kicking]

My Thai wife came to Australia 2003 as well and only been back to Thailand a few times she loves it here 

[FarAway]

1 hour ago, still kicking said:

My Thai wife came to Australia 2003 as well and only been back to Thailand a few times she loves it here 

 

Prison Country.
Even Thailand was more free.

And I think just China was worse.

[still kicking]

2 minutes ago, FarAway said:

 

Prison Country.
Even Thailand was more free.

And I think just China was worse.

Prison country? Thailand free? Are you joking? How do you live in Thailand when you get old, do you get a good pension? You live on bananas? Pull the other leg.

[bradiston]

My Thai ex wife has UK citizenship and hasn't been back to Thailand in more than 20 years. She remarried and lives in a big house in London. When I was living in the UK, we used to meet quite regularly and I'd ask her if she was ever going to "visit home". "Why me go Thailand?" she'd reply angrily. "Only poor bloody people there!" I learnt to hold my tongue. I still love the old girl. Fighting spirit. It's what most Thais are very good at.

[curtklay]

After 40 years of marriage  in the US, my wife wanted to return to Thailand to retire. We did so. After 5 years, she wanted to return to the US. Thailand and Thais were not the same as when she was a child.