Many men come to Thailand with the idea to find a Thai wife or long term girlfriend. You do the whole dating thing and it gets serious quite quickly.
We all know no Thai woman wants to risk losing a chance at a foreigner husband. If he is a good man and can support her, she might move the relationship forward at lightning speed.
Fast forward ahead to getting married and settling into married life in Thailand.
Newflash!
It is no different than being married in any other country.
You setup a house, car, and have to get use to the smell of Thai food cooking everyday.
A Thai wife is not going to be behaving like a bar girl or freelancer in anyway. She will want to have some status now that she is married to a foreigner and she will act with dignity or at least try.
She also probably won’t be a tiger in the bedroom, unless she really wants something you are reluctant to buy.
She will just be a regular wife, like some of you were use to before moving here, only she might be younger, slimmer and better looking.
She will have her own expectations and if you can meet her expectations, life will be grand.
For you, life will seem just like the life you left.
Fixing things around the house, watching sports, having a cold beer and getting into a daily routine.
Unless you have a ton of money to travel every month, that is about all there is to it living in Thailand.
If you need to go out and get drunk and chase others, if you embarrass her in her village, you will be in for fire and brimstone. PS behave yourself or give your house away.
If kids are in the picture, you will learn first hand how expensive international school is.
Inevitably you will get old, have medical problems and not be so rambunctious.
She will still be younger, flittering around with a ton of energy.
You might find yourself living in a rural area like Isaan.
Different dialect, different foods, tons of family always wanting things.
Best to embrace her family as your own!
Farming, fruit trees, vegetables, fish pond might be the norm from here on out.
The best thing you can wish for is air conditioning 24/7!
If you are a good man and a good provider, there will be nothing to worry about.
But, if are not, sooner or later she will wise up to not getting what she signed on for.
The best you can hope for is to be best friends.
To want to do every single thing together.
You will get old and older.
Sooner or later, if you did right by her, she will be the one taking care of you until you pass away.
If you marry the one meant for you, Thai life is the same as life anywhere else.