Fall in love at your own risk... Punishment with A Smile!

Fall in love at your own risk
Punishment with A Smile!
The besotted foreigner, usually white, who marries a Thai lady half his age in Thailand usually discovers his wife has a Thai husband.
DO NOT fall in love with the first Thai lady who comes over to you. Despite the warning, which appears in websites on Thai nightlife, that is what a guy – usually a white heterosexual male – visiting Thailand for the first time will do when he goes to Thailand,
“The guy does fall in love with her. He gets laid! He then has an affair with her lasting for a few weeks or maybe even longer.
“It might end happily, but as he hasn’t bothered to learn any of the language, culture or history of Thailand it mostly likely ends in disaster.”
The farang (Thai for Westerner) can’t help falling in love because he has “not seen anything like it”.
“He walks into pattaya street full of gorgeous women – with perfect body, long black hair, light brown skin and almond eyes – and they welcome him with that beautiful Thai smile and make him feel like a king,” he explains.
The relationship, however, ends in a disastrous marriage,
The farang (usually in his 50s, 60s and 70s) discovers his wife (usually half his age) actually has a Thai husband.
Or he spends half a million US dollars on a huge tract of land (which must be under her name – in Thailand, farangs are only allowed to buy condominiums) to build a marital home and she later kicks him out.
The classic horror story told over and over in Thailand as a tale of caution is the one where the Thai lady has a Thai boyfriend or mother hungry of money and they have a sinister plan to kill the farang husband for his money.
“This happens quite often in Pattaya. You read in the Pattaya Mail about a guy who falls off the balcony and the police call it a suicide. But the article mentions that the man has his hands tied behind his back and a black stocking over his head,” Barrett relates.
The marriage ends in disaster because these guys do not speak Thai, make any effort to learn Thai history and culture and the psychology of Isaan women (most pattaya lady are from Thailand’s north-east).
“For these women, the mother is number one and not the husband as she owes her mother her life. And she will do anything to provide for her mother,
Asked whether the farang who marries a pattaya lady faces the stigma of marrying a prostitute,» No, because they are nothing like a prostitute.
They are much like a girlfriend even if you pay her money.
“And she'll way (a respectful Thai greeting) you in the morning.”
“But the girls have told me: ‘What do they think when I work in a factory outside Bangkok hunched 12 hours a day over a machine putting little electronic parts together for a fraction of what I earn in a nightlife establishment'?” he says.
Doctortilac saying a 50-something farang only has access to her beauty and youth because she wants access to his ATM.