SIAMBULL Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Take my wife..... please. Just wondering about others' experiences. My wife is a wonderful woman, full of love and caring but after 6 years in the US she is still just plain stupid. ESL, college courses, ongoing tutoring by yours truly and she still can't write a complete English sentence nor figure out how make an appointment. Frustrating to say the least. I thought we would have children but I wouldn't trust her to care for a baby. Oh she'd love and care but would be too confused to call the doctor or get to an ER in an emergency. It's continuous endless head shaking stupidity. I imagine life with her illiterate Isaan Mom would be similar. This lovely woman I married has a Thai college degree and was a working accountant when I met her in Bangkok. Boy did I expect something different. I often shake my head and say that no intelligent girl would have married me and come to America barely knowing me. Funny, but too true. We only know a few Thais here in the USA. A lot of Laotians in our area who speak a dialect similar to pasa Isaan. Most of them haven't managed to learn English and seem quite stupid too. I stick with my wife because I made a committment and an agreement and she does take care of me athough her talk of working is useless as she can't succeeed at a job interview. I just wonder if other Farangs have lived through the frustration of discovering just how hugely stupid these cute girls can be. The inability to learn despite help and effort is a very limiting and frustrating thing for her and for me. BULL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retiredusn Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Do you speak and read Thai? And able to carry on a normal conversation in Thai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endure Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 I see that your ambition is to "Retire asap and return to LOS!". How long do you think it will be before you can read, write and speak Thai? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2long Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 What do we reckon the life expectancy of this (trolling) thread to be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinnieTheKhwai Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 8) Not to post extremely negative views of Thailand or derogatory comments directed towards all Thais. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 (edited) I hooked up with a no-college degree 'stupid' Isaan girl solely because of looks and personality only to later find out that she could probably score close to 800 on a math SAT. Edited March 22, 2011 by jazzbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses G. Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 When you come to live in Thailand, most likely Thais will be saying the exact same thing about you. I have lived in Thailand for quite a while and speak some Thai, but have to get a Thai person to do most things for me or it will be done wrong because my Thai vocabulary is not up to the task. If you can speak Thai like Joe Cummings of Lonely Planet fame, then maybe you have a point, but he has been studying the language constantly for several decades and has a gift for learning languages to start with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckamuck Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Which one is more stupid, the woman he is disappointed with, or himself, who married someone not taking the time to realize he would find her to be stupid. OP can may I ask the reason you married her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I for one would not be so hard on K. SB and his frustration ... his mis-judgment IMHO was that all those attributes that allow his wife to be a wonderful person and in control when in her home country do not for many persons transfer to the USA or anywhere else ... Which is why I am always happy to see on the 'Visas & Migration to Other Countries' front page that there are no topic queries about re-location of a Thai female to the USA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lite Beer Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 8) Not to post extremely negative views of Thailand or derogatory comments directed towards all Thais. Got it in one. CLOSED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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