Intercultural marriage in Thailand
Her dad had supposedly been in an accident and the hospital wanted money to release him. Months later I met a woman who never asked me for anything.
After a separation, a 41-year-old Belgian tried south east Asian dating sites and ran into scam after scam, starting with a Filipino woman who always had a new family emergency. He then met a Thai woman who never asked him for anything, and married her on her fifth visit to Europe.
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 went to Thailand on holiday after an eleven-year breakup in Scotland. Nineteen years later, I live with twelve in-laws under one roof.
Graham, a 51-year-old Scot, first came to Thailand at 32, on holiday after a long breakup. In the bars of Koh Samui he met Dao, the woman he'd later marry. Nineteen years, a Thai wedding, and a house built in Isaan later, he lives surrounded by her family and wouldn't change a thing.
He almost sent 400,000 baht. The only good decision he made was not to.
A 41-year-old British man went in two weeks from a Soi 4 fling to talking dowry and house renovations. He almost sent 400,000 baht. He did not.
I have been married nine years and have three kids. And for the first time, I do not know if I should stay.
A Canadian sailor has been married nine years to a woman from Pattaya and has three kids. Now he faces the hardest question of his life: stay or leave.