Thread: The Thai female psyche

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

As long as she is properly billeted and receives her due pay and rations according to her rank she gives sterling service and remains loyal as the day is long.

Sorry, I didn't realize you were talking about your dog.

My wife has been working here in Oz for the past year (part-time work for longer than that) but I have been supporting her financially in almost the same proportion that I did while she was not working.

I jacked up about it recently because my bank balance is going nowhere, but got the old "you said you'd take care me" line.

Turns out that she cannot get her head around paying anything like 50% of rent and bills......says it would seem like we were just housemates.

After a great struggle, it seems that she is reluctantly paying 40%.

It seems that one is a patron for one's own wife. At least she doesn't call me "Phi".

Serves ya right.

Yes...I look after her and vice-versa.

Google "how to look after your wife" and you won't find anything about how to divvy up the mutual finances. It's about everyday stuff and cherishing and so on.

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

What is her's is her's and what's mine is partly hers

Same the world over. In a massive generalisation sort of way.

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Yes...I look after her and vice-versa.

Google "how to look after your wife" and you won't find anything about how to divvy up the mutual finances. It's about everyday stuff and cherishing and so on.

I have spoken to many couple with two jobs and the percentage of income seems to be the favoured way.

If of course the "other" job is for pin money...

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Yes...I look after her and vice-versa.

Google "how to look after your wife" and you won't find anything about how to divvy up the mutual finances. It's about everyday stuff and cherishing and so on.

My dear chap, clearly you never read the brochure.

Thailand as we all should know is a medieval country wherein the hierarchy rule and the peasants get by as best they can. Same same Britain in the Middle Ages and under the law women then were classed as chattels in much the same way as other livestock except they were obviously much less important than the cows.

You wouldn't expect your cows to help pay the bills, would you?

Thai women still regard themselves as culturally second class citizens in accordance with the prevailing social mores currently in force here in the LoS but the trade off is the assumption that once they are chosen for marriage, the husband should take care.

When I and the wingman flew back to Blighty for a longish sojourn she took a part time job in addition to charity work mainly to keep herself occupied. I realised pretty quickly that all proceeds from her employment were only going one way and in truth I never tried to inculcate the western notion that marriage was a financial partnership too.

Just work harder and leave the little woman alone.

^ Probably good advice if you"re married to an ex-7/11 cashier.

It all goes in the same pot.

Originally Posted by Passing Through

^ Probably good advice if you"re married to an ex-7/11 cashier.

It's just a bit of japery, PT.

Of course no decent white chap worth his salt would possibly dream of taking money from his squaw to make ends meet.

Your self-parody seems to be spinning out of control.

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Yes...I look after her and vice-versa.

Google "how to look after your wife" and you won't find anything about how to divvy up the mutual finances. It's about everyday stuff and cherishing and so on.

I have spoken to many couple with two jobs and the percentage of income seems to be the favoured way.

If of course the "other" job is for pin money...

Yes. The real question is the degree of disparity in incomes. If it is a too big a chunk of her salary, at some point she will decide it is not worth working.

Another way is to split bills, one pays utilities, one rent etc.

Either way, a "big struggle" does not bode well, and i would envision that resentment is quietly building up.

Perhaps we might examine our own characters firstly...before casting disparagingly towards things that we have dreamt up for comfort or fancy.

Indeed, a worm cast is lain clockwise unless the squirrel is cross-eyed and dances with the tapir.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

That does not show 0 results, you retarded nutter.

Originally Posted by Latindancer

At a glance it does, dimwit.

Must be a British (Thai language) Expat forum with a similar thread where Thai ladies have stereotyped Brit males. Must find and see what they say.

There's bound to be a Thai language forum with that somewhere.

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Yes...I look after her and vice-versa.

Google "how to look after your wife" and you won't find anything about how to divvy up the mutual finances. It's about everyday stuff and cherishing and so on.

Ya should have tried your favourite,.. "Popular Mechanics" instead.

It took you all that time to come up with a comment like that ?

JeeZUZ.

Who, other than you, would even dream of Googling, "how to look after your wife".

Something you should have considered long before getting married.

Why didn't you sort it all out before tying the knot?

Anyone with any worries about rights and duties in marriage, especially about joint finances and properties, usually make a prenuptial contract with their prospective spouse.

Besides, as a westerner, a marriage is often solemnised with the phrases,

"All my wordly goods, I do thee endow", and promise to "eschew all other", and to "cherish and to hold" their partner until "death do they part".

The bottom line being;

No money, no honey.

Originally Posted by Neverna

There's bound to be a Thai language forum with that somewhere.

Oh...guaranteed.
If you ever have the chance to explore the numerous Thai-language forums available, you might be fascinated and surprised as to the broad content and character.

Originally Posted by ENT

Blah blah blah blah blah blah

For those who may be interested, in return for my supporting her two and a half years, my wife offered to support me until I get a job if we move away from the city, which I had expressed a wish to do.

She can get a job at the drop of a hat in almost any regional centre.

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Originally Posted by ENT

Blah blah blah blah blah blah

For those who may be interested, in return for my supporting her two and a half years, my wife offered to support me until I get a job if we move away from the city, which I had expressed a wish to do.

She can get a job at the drop of a hat in almost any regional centre.

So what are you moaning on about?

So how is she going to get a job at "the drop of a hat" in any "regional centre" if you both move out of the city, your regional centre?

Are there any openings for Thai trained science teachers, or even cashiers, in Cunnamulla for a Thai with a limited command of the English language, let alone Strine?

Beggars the imagination, that one!

Originally Posted by Latindancer

She can get a job at the drop of a hat in almost any regional centre.

That's quite amazing ... English language proficiency and such portable work skills.

May I ask ... what profession is your wife usually employed in?