I see this regularly where I am working due to the soi having a few 'beer bars' down there, and one thing that baffles me is why after just a few hours - in some cases barely an hour - the farang has bar-fined the whore and is locked hands with her as he walks away as if to say "I've got you now, please don't run away on me".
Let's make a comparison here, example: A businessman in Coventry wants some rumpy pumpy during his rush hour and books into a Travelodge hotel -or somewhere similarly downmarket- then orders a whore from an escort agency. In my limited experience of staking out these situations in the UK I never once saw that man leave the hotel holding hands with the haggard old trout, so why change the trend when arriving in Thailand? Are they prettier and more desirable? For me they are not, my Thai side enables me to read the locals like a book with very large print for guys with big spectacles.
The desperation on some of the farang faces is unbelievable sometimes, it's that "eureka" expression, as if they lose all sense of reality (many do)...I mean what makes a man who was once earning 90,000 GBP in the UK running a successful business want to spent his days teaching just so he can engage in the nocturnal activity of propping up beer bar after beer bar? Is it a career activity that you can get bored of??
Maybe it is indeed the "I've got you now, please don't run away on me" dread that causes the most friction in most BG-Farang relationships, because as BG's are almost always looking to go one better than what they've got, their phone could ring at any time and they'll be off like a shot -think of the "I go salon" or "sister have poblem" excuses as they dress hastily whilst halfway out the door.
So when you guys indulge in your activities with your BG, do you see any long term plan, chance of being that 'one in a million' couple that works, rather than another angry, burned out fat farang who lives with a succession of different BG's in his 3600 Baht a month room in Phra Kanong or Udom Suk, trying to find his "perfect Thai girl".
On average, most farangs that try and live here and duck and dive in the TEFL world last around four years. I read that in the shakers and movers magazine.