You’ll see a well to do foreigner in Thailand who spent forty years building a career and making enough good decisions to finally retire comfortably. Then six months after meeting a "local" girl on his first trip to Siam, he’s taking life advice from someone whose biggest qualification is knowing how to keep him permanently off balance.

How the hell does that happen?

Most of these blokes aren’t stupid. Yet somehow they end up following her around like a buffalo that wandered off into the wrong rice field and now can’t find its way back out.

The education gap alone should make the whole thing impossible. One person has decades of life experience and a career behind him. The other often barely scraped through primary school, if even any schooling at all. Yet somehow she’s the strategic mastermind of the pair now and he’s standing there with his ATM card in hand, waiting for instructions.

I can’t make the maths work.

Maybe it’s because he’s convinced himself he’s just pulled off the greatest caper in history. A woman half his age who wouldn’t have looked twice at him twenty years earlier, or ever for that matter. Once he buys into that fantasy, everything else comes with it. The drama. The sulking. The emotional blackmail. The endless little loyalty tests.

Some of these women seem professionally offended. Every day there’s a fresh crisis. Every conversation starts with a sigh and ends with him apologising for something he didn’t even know he’d done.

I’d last about six seconds around one of these birds.

Then I look at these couples and think, what exactly are these guys seeing? Half the women of this ilk are covered in tattoos, appear permanently angry, and loud enough that I’d be asking the airline for a different seat if one of them sat next to me.

Meanwhile, the bloke is walking around like he won first prize in the lottery.

I suppose that’s what puzzles me most. It isn’t the age gap. It isn’t even the money.

It’s watching a dude who came to Thailand looking for freedom end up asking for permission to spend his own money, where he's allowed to go, what he's allowed to eat, and who he's allowed to talk with.

That’s the bit I just can’t make sense of.

Business smarts and woman (especially SE Asian) smarts are different.

22 minutes ago, SoCal1990 said:

The education gap alone should make the whole thing impossible. One person has decades of life experience and a career behind him. The other often barely scraped through primary school, if even any schooling at all. Yet somehow she’s the strategic mastermind of the pair now and he’s standing there with his ATM card in hand, waiting for instructions.

As one hooker said to me,

"It doesn't matter how rich, intelligent or powerful a man is, if you learn to tickle his balls the right way, he'll do whatever you want"

And I think she's right about most white western men who have been deprived of frequent sex most of their lives.

Edited 47 minutes ago47 min by BritManToo

28 minutes ago, SoCal1990 said:

You’ll see a well to do foreigner in Thailand who spent forty years building a career and making enough good decisions to finally retire comfortably. Then six months after meeting a "local" girl on his first trip to Siam, he’s taking life advice from someone whose biggest qualification is knowing how to keep him permanently off balance.

How the hell does that happen?

Most of these blokes aren’t stupid. Yet somehow they end up following her around like a buffalo that wandered off into the wrong rice field and now can’t find its way back out.

The education gap alone should make the whole thing impossible. One person has decades of life experience and a career behind him. The other often barely scraped through primary school, if even any schooling at all. Yet somehow she’s the strategic mastermind of the pair now and he’s standing there with his ATM card in hand, waiting for instructions.

I can’t make the maths work.

Maybe it’s because he’s convinced himself he’s just pulled off the greatest caper in history. A woman half his age who wouldn’t have looked twice at him twenty years earlier, or ever for that matter. Once he buys into that fantasy, everything else comes with it. The drama. The sulking. The emotional blackmail. The endless little loyalty tests.

Some of these women seem professionally offended. Every day there’s a fresh crisis. Every conversation starts with a sigh and ends with him apologising for something he didn’t even know he’d done.

I’d last about six seconds around one of these birds.

Then I look at these couples and think, what exactly are these guys seeing? Half the women of this ilk are covered in tattoos, appear permanently angry, and loud enough that I’d be asking the airline for a different seat if one of them sat next to me.

Meanwhile, the bloke is walking around like he won first prize in the lottery.

I suppose that’s what puzzles me most. It isn’t the age gap. It isn’t even the money.

It’s watching a dude who came to Thailand looking for freedom end up asking for permission to spend his own money, where he's allowed to go, what he's allowed to eat, and who he's allowed to talk with.

That’s the bit I just can’t make sense of.

They like women. You're gay so don't understand the power women have.

1 minute ago, Rockyroad said:

They like women. You're gay so don't understand the power women have.

Or maybe he isn't white!

It's only white men that have been sissified to not hit women.

Every other race has no problem beating the living daylights out of them.

1 minute ago, Rockyroad said:

They like women. You're gay so don't understand the power women have.

Takes one to know one!

3 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Takes one to know one!

So people have to be gay to realise Boy George is? You really are stupid.

40 minutes ago, SoCal1990 said:

You’ll see a well to do foreigner in Thailand who spent forty years building a career and making enough good decisions to finally retire comfortably. Then six months after meeting a "local" girl on his first trip to Siam, he’s taking life advice from someone whose biggest qualification is knowing how to keep him permanently off balance.

How the hell does that happen?

Most of these blokes aren’t stupid. Yet somehow they end up following her around like a buffalo that wandered off into the wrong rice field and now can’t find its way back out.

The education gap alone should make the whole thing impossible. One person has decades of life experience and a career behind him. The other often barely scraped through primary school, if even any schooling at all. Yet somehow she’s the strategic mastermind of the pair now and he’s standing there with his ATM card in hand, waiting for instructions.

I can’t make the maths work.

Maybe it’s because he’s convinced himself he’s just pulled off the greatest caper in history. A woman half his age who wouldn’t have looked twice at him twenty years earlier, or ever for that matter. Once he buys into that fantasy, everything else comes with it. The drama. The sulking. The emotional blackmail. The endless little loyalty tests.

Some of these women seem professionally offended. Every day there’s a fresh crisis. Every conversation starts with a sigh and ends with him apologising for something he didn’t even know he’d done.

I’d last about six seconds around one of these birds.

Then I look at these couples and think, what exactly are these guys seeing? Half the women of this ilk are covered in tattoos, appear permanently angry, and loud enough that I’d be asking the airline for a different seat if one of them sat next to me.

Meanwhile, the bloke is walking around like he won first prize in the lottery.

I suppose that’s what puzzles me most. It isn’t the age gap. It isn’t even the money.

It’s watching a dude who came to Thailand looking for freedom end up asking for permission to spend his own money, where he's allowed to go, what he's allowed to eat, and who he's allowed to talk with.

That’s the bit I just can’t make sense of.

You haven't figured out the power dynamic. In a relationship there is always one desired, one adored, and one who does the desiring and adoring. It's never the case that both parties are equally attractive, and adore each other equally. There is always an imbalance. In that the more attractive one, the adored, has the power. The man you describe may see it as a small price to pay 5000 baht for a hair salon trip, if he can continue to live out his fantasy of love, which he can only do with his adored woman. And of course what BritManToo said, if they can bring it in bed, that only adds to their power, which is already sky high as they're way more attractive, way higher in sexual market value.

12 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Or maybe he isn't white!

It's only white men that have been sissified to not hit women.

Every other race has no problem beating the living daylights out of them.

These guys are spending 10% of their money on a woman. No big deal. The OP should date ScottyJohn.

12 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Or maybe he isn't white!

It's only white men that have been sissified to not hit women.

Every other race has no problem beating the living daylights out of them.

Thai women certainly have no problem to start hitting you. My Thai gf routinely attacks me, and each time, I punch her back twice as hard. She does it playfully, but it's good they feel the consequences if they do that. Or it may end badly. Sean Connery knew what he was talking about.

Edited 28 minutes ago28 min by Cameroni

Thank gawd, mates, finally a proper wind-up, instead of RockyRubbish cloggin' up the gaff again with yet another of his boring yarns, complete with more snaps of his LB concubine sat there with some uninteresting Thai food: pics no one wants, no one asked for, and frankly, couldn’t give a toss about.

As for the OP, a welcome tug on the short and curlies is often the key to unlocking the ATM pin.

4 minutes ago, Gary The Git said:

Thank gawd, mates, finally a proper wind-up, instead of RockyRubbish cloggin' up the gaff again with yet another of his boring yarns, complete with more snaps of his LB concubine sat there with some uninteresting Thai food: pics no one wants, no one asked for, and frankly, couldn’t give a toss about.

As for the OP, a welcome tug on the short and curlies is often the key to unlocking the ATM pin.

What happened to Lewie and Billly? Your trolls are getting worse. No wonder you have never had a girlfriend.