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- A holiday girlfriend in Phuket, Krabi and Koh Samui: a 54-year-old Frenchman's real story
- Sponsors on rotation in Pattaya: a Polish retiree's real story of being played
- From a Facebook love triangle to a happy marriage: my story with a woman from Isan
- Bangkok dating scam: the fake identity and red flags I missed
- 24-year age gap: a Canadian's real story with his Thai girlfriend across Bangkok, Pattaya and Koh Samui
- Australian meets a married Thai woman through a dating app near the Laos border
- Spouse visa, custody battle and social services: the other side of marrying a woman from Bangkok
- I threw up on the pavement outside a hotel in Phuket at one in the morning. A stranger sat with me until sunrise and wouldn't take a single baht for it.
- Scammed at Bangkok's Nana Plaza: how I lost $30,000 in six months
- 12,500 baht for two bottles of wine. As I got out of the taxi, I watched the manager get in with her.
- She'd step outside to take calls from other guys. At least she was honest about it.
- I met three women in three cities. The one stuck in my head is older than me, not younger.
- In three seconds she went from fine to screaming at me through the streets of Chiang Mai. Her cousin explained why.
- I've been going to Thailand since 1986. Nobody had ever binned my gifts before Som.
- She suggested I spend some time in Pattaya alone. I didn't know it was a test, and I failed it.
- I kept coming back to Pattaya for thirteen years. In the third bar on Soi Honey I met Jib.
- Om never asked me for a penny in two years. Now she runs Thai nights at our pub.
- She gave me a free bowl of noodles at her mum's stall. The buffalo has never been sick.
- I told her I wouldn't send a single baht until we met in person. She accepted without arguing.
- She came over just to tell me the rain was dripping on me. Ten years later I still remember her laugh.
- I found her dancing in a Soi Cowboy bar. Nine months later our daughter was born in Thailand.
- I opened a joint account with the million-baht dowry. She started quietly withdrawing money without telling me.
- I gave her 400,000 baht and two years of my life. One day she went to a temple and never spoke to me again.
- Ryan's real story in Pattaya: a warning about your finances before moving to Thailand
- I asked to see her passport and every excuse in the book came out. That's when everything turned.
- I dodged financial disaster with Charm. With Gop and her daughter I ended up as Papa without ever planning it.
- The reason for the visa rejection nearly made my head explode: she couldn't pronounce my name.
- 350 guests, a village chief consulting his charms for the date, and years later a message asking for a divorce.
- She raised her palm flat and said "don't speak." Then walked back to the other man without looking back.
- Five years, a house in Chiang Mai, a pickup truck and £30,000. She had my case packed in seconds.
- A widower for ten years, I promised a stranger I'd come back. That's how I met Newt.
- She told me once she has a man's heart, she can get anything from him. I fell for it anyway.
- The quiet sponsorship: a retired American's real story from Bangkok
- From a Pattaya bar to a life in Belgium: a real story with a happy ending, so far
- Seven months of video calls before meeting: a real story from Bangkok and Phuket
- An impossible dowry in Thailand: a 50-year-old Australian's real story from Bangkok
- Falling in love in Khon Kaen: winning over the mother-in-law and building a life in Thailand
- Meeting a serious Thai woman from Isaan: a real story with no happy ending or scam
- From Koh Samui to Isaan: a long-distance relationship that survived lockdown
- Asian dating site scams before finding real love in Thailand
- Patong bar owner keeps asking a tourist for money: a real first-trip-to-Phuket story
- She asked for 60,000 baht for her mother: a real story from an Austrian in Kanchanaburi
- From Bangkok to Scotland: a Welshman's real story with a 47-year-old Thai woman
- New Year's Eve in Pattaya with a bar girl: how the night actually ended
- Living in Phuket without a work permit: a British plasterer's real story
- The bill said 6,000 baht, no breakdown. The real one was 2,194, and she was already gone.
- I went to Pattaya to forget a divorce. I ended up proposing to her at Bangkok airport.
- 51-year-old Scot in Thailand: from Koh Samui to marriage and settling in Isaan
- Married in secret and a pregnancy scare: a real story from Samut Sakhon, Thailand
- At 60, I flew to a village in Isaan for a wedding that wasn't mine, and for a few hours it felt like it was.
- New Zealander meets his Thai girlfriend in Pattaya: the money test that changed everything
- Before flying to Bangkok, I bought a fake Rolex for forty dollars in New York. It turned out to be the smartest decision of the whole trip.
- 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.
- I'd been going to Thailand for fifteen years and thought I knew it all. One game of pool in Pattaya proved me wrong.
- In Phuket, my girlfriend's younger sister looked at me and asked why her sister found me first
- Age Gap in Thailand: 55-Year-Old Man Meets 27-Year-Old Thai Woman in Bangkok
- Bangkok Charm or a Con? A Cautionary Thailand Dating Story
- He Almost Lost 400,000 Baht to a Thailand Dating Scam
- 9 Years Married in Thailand: A Father's Doubts in Pattaya
- Widowed at 70: How a Thailand Trip Led to Love in Koh Samui
- He Thought He'd Save Her: An Age Gap Love Story in Bangkok
- Bangkok to a Chiang Mai Wedding: A Thailand Love Story
- 600,000 Baht, 18 Months, Never Met: A Chiang Mai Long-Distance Story
- American Retiree Finds Love in Kanchanaburi, Thailand
- Age Gap Love Story in Chiang Mai: Thai Nurse and German Retiree