manxninja Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 I know it goes on but just how widespread is it. In my wifes village there are two foreign gentlemen that visit around 2-3 months a year. When they come the thai husband simply moves into a relatives house for the duration. Now both have built nice houses for the wife, and i suspect financially provide very well also. The wifes village is quite small say around 50 families spread around, so just how prevailent is this and in thai society is it frowned upon by the decent thais. While i know its all about face, just how does the thai man keep face when the other husband is in town. Its a funny old world but honestly how can some people be so stupid . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post shaggy1969 Posted May 26, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2013 The Thai can can keep face because unfortunately the joke is on the foreign husband. End of the day when the poor old foreign husband gets wise to what is happening or bleed dry....the Thai husband gets everything. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manxninja Posted May 26, 2013 Author Share Posted May 26, 2013 Its a bizarre idea , the one of keeping face. Take for instance my wife , who nagged me for years that she didnt have a car for the familly to use. Fair enough i said you finance it , get yourself one. So as a true thai she got a pick up for 22k even though no one in the familly could drive. She told me the reason for this was her fathers sister had talked shit about him for years about his daughter having a foreign husband and no car. No he has the car the sister still talks shit saying well he has the car but he doesnt have a big house. Got to hand it to them priceless. I find the poorer the thai people are , the happier they are lesson to be learnt there somewhere. PS Im driving round in a 3k van in my own country . Funny old world. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherOneAmerican Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 It's very widespread, not only with foreigners here part-time. The wife of full time foreigners can have a Thai husband tucked away, she visits when, funeral, go to see relatives, little holiday with her sister, etc. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sirchai Posted May 26, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2013 If you're an honest guy, please let the gentlemen know what their wives are doing when abroad.Guess you'd be more than happy, when somebody would "open your eyes." It's pretty much common here. I'd guess 80% of Thai women are doing the same shit.And you won't loose face telling it through let's say your wife.- 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bergen Posted May 26, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2013 If you're an honest guy, please let the gentlemen know what their wives are doing when abroad.Guess you'd be more than happy, when somebody would "open your eyes." It's pretty much common here. I'd guess 80% of Thai women are doing the same shit.And you won't loose face telling it through let's say your wife.- Wow! I guess you know a lot of Thai women? 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JLCrab Posted May 26, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2013 (edited) Topic synopsis: There are a lot of stupid old farangs out there, but no Thai floozy is ever going to get the better of me, no Siree, you betcha. Edited May 26, 2013 by JLCrab 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post transam Posted May 26, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2013 Sorry folk but it is true. Noooooooooo loss of face cos cash is flowing. Outside folk think it's cool that cash flow was achieved. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post manxninja Posted May 26, 2013 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2013 Sirchai, i would have no hesitation telling them. Im my experience however 99 percent wouldnt believe me. Ive never been in the village while they are there but if they are i will tell them over a beer, if they take the hump to problem. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cooked Posted May 26, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2013 Seven Farang houses in this village, one German guy as well as me is here all year round and he seems to have resigned himself to the fact that his legal wife prefers the nightly company of her Thai husband. My wife sticks to me like glue so I can't be naughty, we seem to be the only ones living a 'normal' married life. They all do it if they can, sometimes the Thai husband tells his wife to get a Farang, sometimes it's the parents tell their daughter (or son!). My wife did match making in the past and has all sorts of stories to tell, one marriage lasted a week, money having been handed over the poor guy turned up at her house at midnight, thrown out by Thai husband. If we walk through Buriram we are asked all the time by ladies that can't speak English to ' find a Farang' = get me some money. These dishonest ladies don't pay the agreed fee for the matchmaking very often, thank goodness as I see this way of earning as verging on pimping. Money sent for house building disappears through Lao Kao drinking, card playing and lotteries, visits to night clubs and being naughty. I see it every day, everybody knows about it. A Farang got hung, or 'suicided' if you want, not far from here, a few days ago. Me? I am happy, very much so, mainly because I don't have any money, so no fears. My wife recently heard 'I thought you were a good lady, why you work now you have a Farang?'. It takes some time to get you brain around this stuff, a sense of humour doesn't always help. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post IsaanAussie Posted May 26, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2013 Distance relationships are hard enough anywhere. If you think there is something wrong with the Thais adopting a Western maxim "A fool and his money are soon parted" then fine. Does it happen here? Of course it does. Is it my business to get involved? Absolutely not, never! For people sitting on the sideline voicing an opinion, get stuffed. This is a country where over 60% of married men are in extra-martial relationships, and over 50% of married women. The happily married Thais are the same as those happily married anywhere, even farang thai marriages here. Does it happen near me? Yes. And I stay out of other peoples business because there are always two sides to a story. The other side is one you should listen to more often. We aren't saints guys! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rixalex Posted May 26, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2013 The Thai can can keep face because unfortunately the joke is on the foreign husband. End of the day when the poor old foreign husband gets wise to what is happening or bleed dry....the Thai husband gets everything. I don't think either husband comes out of it particularly well. The foreign husband invariably gets bled dry as you say, and is oblivious of the double life his wife is living, and the Thai husband, although making some money out of the arrangement, has to live with knowing that another man is getting jiggy between the sheets with his wife. As for the wife, she gets labeled a woman of "disrepute", to put it politely. Faces lost all round i'd say. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daboyz1 Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 What's the point in being married if you're only going to see your spouse 2-3 months a year? That said, I do know some married couples here in the U.S. where one party wishes this was the case. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Salapoo Posted May 26, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2013 (edited) While i know its all about face, just how does the thai man keep face when the other husband is in town. Like the other 9 months of the year, he sits around in nice clothes, drinking JWB, and driving his new pick-up truck while his friends are off working in the fields for 200b a day. King of the castle. The envy of every man, respected by all as he has money. What? Someone's rooting his wife, what da F does that matter? Edited May 26, 2013 by Salapoo 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald14 Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 This is very common, I know of a few Thai women who do exactly the same. Foreign husband comes home, Thai husband moves out 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salapoo Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 Money matters, ans is respected likema God. How one gets that money doesn't matter in the least. You get it, you get respect, admiration, envy and face. Plus you get to belittle othernpeople and treatnthem like sh!t because they don't have the moneynyou have. The Thai dream. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaowong1 Posted May 26, 2013 Share Posted May 26, 2013 See it many times, never fails to amaze me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorecard Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 (edited) It's very widespread, not only with foreigners here part-time. The wife of full time foreigners can have a Thai husband tucked away, she visits when, funeral, go to see relatives, little holiday with her sister, etc. But what you neglect to add is that Thai men having a wife and a minor wife (even several minor wives) has been part of Thai culture for hundreds of years and continues today. In other words many Thai women (and men) see this whole scenario as 'normal'. My Thai daughter in law tells me that as a little girl she (and all her female school friends) were taught, mostly by numerous aunts, that: 'men have special needs, when you get married you must understand and accept that your husband will need several women to satisfy his sexual desires'. And you can find some rich / successful Thai women who have several live in boys. I'm well aware of two such scenarios where; - The Thai women got married, knowing full well that the new husband had several minor wives in addition to the actual 'for status display and to father his children' bride. - The Thai women knew full well that they were marrying into, and knew full well that it was common and knowing full well would not change. - Eventually got bored with the situation, like many of their lady friends, had no desire to divorce, but did decide to copy the set up and have several live-in / live out hot young boyfriends. - In both of the cases that I'm aware of the actual Thai husbands are well aware that their 'main' wives have an entourage of hot young men and well aware that there is plenty of regular action in bed, and in both cases the husbands are not concerned, not in the least. - In one case the rich wife (also a very successful business woman in her own right) has 5 live in boys. None of this is hidden, I've been to the house many times for business meetings and met all of 5 young men several times. she takes care of them well, they all have a luxury personal suite in the very large house, she pays their university fees and a high salary, all have total access to the fleet of company cars, and more. - Also she likes threesomes and sometimes decides to have two boys sleep with her, and she also likes to watch masculine young men having oral and anal sex. Bottom line - all of the five young men in the entourage are bi-sexual. Edited May 27, 2013 by scorecard 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinbin Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 If you're an honest guy, please let the gentlemen know what their wives are doing when abroad.Guess you'd be more than happy, when somebody would "open your eyes." It's pretty much common here. I'd guess 80% of Thai women are doing the same shit.And you won't loose face telling it through let's say your wife.- Wow! I guess you know a lot of Thai women? If youre trying to make Sirchai look stupid then you failed in my book. I'll go higher with his estimate, and say 90+%. There's a woman here from Sweden at the moment. She's got 2 Giks on the go. She's heavily into gambling and gambled away all her gold, her telephone, her laptop. She's getting her Swedish hubby to send her money every month on the pretence that she has to stay here to look after a sick reletive. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depends how you look at it, she's decided she wants a divorce and ain't going back to Sweden. She's fallen in love with one of the Giks. She's not told the husband yet. That'll come when the money dries up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinbin Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 Sirchai, i would have no hesitation telling them. Im my experience however 99 percent wouldnt believe me. Ive never been in the village while they are there but if they are i will tell them over a beer, if they take the hump to problem. Correct Manxninja. I've told on a few and whether they believed me or not, they're still with their Teelaks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unanimosity Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 Sirchai, i would have no hesitation telling them. Im my experience however 99 percent wouldnt believe me. Ive never been in the village while they are there but if they are i will tell them over a beer, if they take the hump to problem. You mean he never shows up unannounced and observes reality? Pit bulls and Thai wives......"but mine is different." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianb1944 Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 similar case about 2 years ago, Canadian guy, here for a month, gone for 3 months, Thai b/f keeping the bed warm for him. Then he broke his leg and couldnt go to work, wife and b/f got impatient, paid a moron30,000baht to shoot husband in his bed. Moron got caught, gave up wife and b/f, so no one got the money. sad though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlieboz Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 If you're an honest guy, please let the gentlemen know what their wives are doing when abroad.Guess you'd be more than happy, when somebody would "open your eyes." It's pretty much common here. I'd guess 80% of Thai women are doing the same shit.And you won't loose face telling it through let's say your wife.- Do not do this; it could go really wrong for you if you do. If the husband does believe you, which he probably won't, it will mean that he stops sending them money. The locals will not take that well and will take it out on you. Unless you are very good friends with the guys stay out of it otherwise you will end up being hurt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobber Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 (edited) Watch n learn !!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUIbwO05JAA Edited May 27, 2013 by Lobber 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotary Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 If you're an honest guy, please let the gentlemen know what their wives are doing when abroad.Guess you'd be more than happy, when somebody would "open your eyes." It's pretty much common here. I'd guess 80% of Thai women are doing the same shit.And you won't loose face telling it through let's say your wife.- 80% might be on the high side but I would say 50% or more. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotary Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 Sirchai, i would have no hesitation telling them. Im my experience however 99 percent wouldnt believe me. Ive never been in the village while they are there but if they are i will tell them over a beer, if they take the hump to problem. Correct Manxninja. I've told on a few and whether they believed me or not, they're still with their Teelaks. Yep seen that. I told one guy one time about something like this, got the guy to come over who was sleeping with his wife and the guy confessed he was sleeping with his wife. Then the only question, and I am not joking, the guy asked the other guy did you use a condom? ha ha. Serious he asked him that with me watching. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotary Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 It's very widespread, not only with foreigners here part-time. The wife of full time foreigners can have a Thai husband tucked away, she visits when, funeral, go to see relatives, little holiday with her sister, etc. But what you neglect to add is that Thai men having a wife and a minor wife (even several minor wives) has been part of Thai culture for hundreds of years and continues today. In other words many Thai women (and men) see this whole scenario as 'normal'. My Thai daughter in law tells me that as a little girl she (and all her female school friends) were taught, mostly by numerous aunts, that: 'men have special needs, when you get married you must understand and accept that your husband will need several women to satisfy his sexual desires'. And you can find some rich / successful Thai women who have several live in boys. I'm well aware of two such scenarios where; - The Thai women got married, knowing full well that the new husband had several minor wives in addition to the actual 'for status display and to father his children' bride. - The Thai women knew full well that they were marrying into, and knew full well that it was common and knowing full well would not change. - Eventually got bored with the situation, like many of their lady friends, had no desire to divorce, but did decide to copy the set up and have several live-in / live out hot young boyfriends. - In both of the cases that I'm aware of the actual Thai husbands are well aware that their 'main' wives have an entourage of hot young men and well aware that there is plenty of regular action in bed, and in both cases the husbands are not concerned, not in the least. - In one case the rich wife (also a very successful business woman in her own right) has 5 live in boys. None of this is hidden, I've been to the house many times for business meetings and met all of 5 young men several times. she takes care of them well, they all have a luxury personal suite in the very large house, she pays their university fees and a high salary, all have total access to the fleet of company cars, and more. - Also she likes threesomes and sometimes decides to have two boys sleep with her, and she also likes to watch masculine young men having oral and anal sex. Bottom line - all of the five young men in the entourage are bi-sexual. I think I like the "numerous aunts", ha ha well some of their ideas anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julemanden Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 Topic synopsis: There are a lot of stupid old farangs out there, but no Thai floozy is ever going to get the better of me, no Siree, you betcha. To be honest with you, i find that there are lots more of stupid younger farangs than older ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLCrab Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 (edited) To be honest with you. Topic synopsis: There are a lot of stupid old farangs out there, but no Thai floozy is ever going to get the better of me, no Siree, you betcha. To be honest with you, i find that there are lots more of stupid younger farangs than older ones Honest? ... And why should you be the first? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De15_Td1dXM Edited May 27, 2013 by JLCrab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbandung Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 Firstly how is someone properly married and then only see their wife two or three times a year? I have a niece who behaves herself but I wonder why. She has a French partner who only comes to Thailand once a year. My wife lives with me in Papua New Guinea because that's where my business is and a wife's place is with her husband. She wouldn't dream of leaving me here by myself and I have no desire to be on my own. That's what I call a regular marriage. We have a house at home and spend two or three months a year in Thailand. As time goes by this will increase but she'll always be with me. We love each other and want to be together. I personally doubt the 80 to 90% stat. But the fact is that having a "wife" who you see a few times a year is bizarre. More bizarre than the fact that she then has a partner who is actually with her full time. Yeah, she's poor and they take the money and once or twice a year it's a bit silly. But who's the fool? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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