Best Love Stories in Thailand
It sounded exactly like the scam I'd been hearing about in Thailand for twenty-five years. Instead of sending the money, I got on a flight.
A 54-year-old Austrian had been travelling alone to Thailand for years when he met Aom, a pregnant woman, with no expectations between them. Months later she asked him for 60,000 baht for her mother's hospital bill. Instead of sending the money, he flew to Kanchanaburi to check it out in person.
I went looking for four quiet days in Bangkok. I came back planning to move near Edinburgh for a 47-year-old woman.
A 43-year-old Welshman went back to Thailand looking for a quiet holiday around Bangkok and Pattaya. He ended up meeting, almost by accident, a 47-year-old Thai woman with kids in Scotland. Now he's planning to drive up to Edinburgh to see her and maybe move there with her.
I went to Pattaya to forget a divorce. I ended up proposing to her at Bangkok airport.
A divorce sent me to Pattaya on holiday with my brother. There I met Nat, a single mother who'd lost her partner before her daughter was born. I fell in love, started doing bike deliveries at night to support her, and months later proposed at Bangkok airport. We've been married four years now in London.
I spent my student loan on a week of heartbreak in Bangkok. I went back nine more times, and on one of those trips I met my wife.
In 2005, heartbroken and with a student loan installment just paid out, I spent a week in Bangkok trying to drink the pain away. I went back nine more times in my early twenties. On one of those trips, in Koh Samui, I met the woman I now live with in England, and with whom I have two daughters.
At 55, I Wasn't Looking for Someone Younger. I Was Looking for Someone Honest.
At 55, after a quiet divorce, a man opens a profile on TrueMatchAsia with no real expectations. There he meets a 27-year-old Thai woman he talks to almost daily for months, until he flies to Bangkok to meet her in person. A story about what actually holds a relationship together when nobody's watching the numbers.
He was 70 years old and his wife had died. His daughter booked him a flight to Thailand.
At 70 he became a widower after forty-three years of marriage. His daughter booked him a flight to Koh Samui that gave him back what he thought was lost.
I arrived in Bangkok convinced I would be the one helping her. I was wrong.
A British man arrived in Bangkok carrying every prejudice about Thai women intact. What he found instead was a woman who did not need saving at all.
I went to Bangkok to see the world. In Chiang Mai I found something I was not looking for.
A 45-year-old American arrived in Thailand with no plan at all. In a small Chiang Mai café, one genuine smile changed the entire course of his life.
I came to Thailand for two weeks. That was two years ago and I am not going back.
A retired electrician went to Thailand for a two-week holiday. At a night market, a woman said something to him that changed his entire life forever.
A 28-year-old Thai nurse and the 71-year-old German who came to Chiang Mai to die
A 71-year-old German man came to Chiang Mai looking for a quiet place to die. A 28-year-old Thai nurse gave him back his will to live instead.