Experiences with your Thai bride adjusting (or not) to living in your home country

**DJ Pat** · 24-01-2011, 10:15 AM

My wife got a bicycle and would use it to get to the tube station in the mornings - she wouldn't do that in a million years back home.

**sabang** · 24-01-2011, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by chitown

What are some of the things your wife had trouble adjusting too in your country?

The fact that virtually every pub meal was served with chips, which she hates.
Soon sorted that out though- she likes a steak, and she'd get that served with rice instead. She brought her own chilli sauce in her handbag.

Besides that, nothing. She met a fair few TG's out shopping, but was never interested in joining any 'Thai community' thing at all. In fact I got the idea she thought most of them were biatches. There was one laotian girl she met that was totally lost- hardly knew how to shop or anything. She thought she was quite sweet, and showed her how to shop.

**taffyapple** · 24-01-2011, 10:35 AM

mrs.taff took to the uk.like a duck to water,got a job in catering worked her way up to management only lost 2days work through illness,she supervised a team of 15 and was a great motivator,but every one used to ask why she never took time off work and cheat the system and talk behind her back,if she then found out they shit their selves{hard bastard},but she had the last laugh,owns a nice house in the uk.a cracking one in thailand and retired at 44,she can also pronounce swear words correct one in a millionxxxxxxxxxx

**nigelandjan** · 24-01-2011, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

My wife got a bicycle and would use it to get to the tube station in the mornings

The wheels were still on it in the evening ?

**TafkaB** · 24-01-2011, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by oldgit

First year in the UK bought some hair shine from boots and top was broken, was in tears as she thought she had to throw it away, told her take it back and they will change it, something they never do in Thailand.

If you buy an item from Boots in Thailand and it's broken, it will be exchanged too.

**dirtydog** · 24-01-2011, 01:33 PM

^Was Boots here 7 years ago?

Originally Posted by oldgit

First year in the UK bought

Originally Posted by oldgit

put on twelve pounds in seven years.

**TafkaB** · 24-01-2011, 01:34 PM

Yes it was.

**dirtydog** · 24-01-2011, 01:39 PM

2006 107 Boots stores in Thailand, 6 had just opened at the airport, I would imagine the majority of Thais have never even heard of the shop let alone shopped there.

**Marmite the Dog** · 24-01-2011, 01:47 PM

Boots were on KSR 10 years ago.

**TafkaB** · 24-01-2011, 01:48 PM

They opened in 1997, and for sure most Thais wouldn't have shopped there.

That doesn't mean that in Thailand you can't return goods though does it?

It just shows that a lot Thais aren't aware of the easy exchange policies of most retail chains, because they don't use these kind of shops as often.

If she had bought something in Boots in Thailand she probably wouldn't have known she could exchange it too.

**sabang** · 24-01-2011, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by oldgit

carrot wrong colour.

Thats interesting- mrs quite happily made som tam out of carrot actually, and dirt cheap in the Adelaide Hills too. She even has over here sometimes.

She grew her own chilli's too- the small ones that are generally just grown for decorative purposes over there, but of course you know a Thai better than that. Great for prik nam pla she reckoned.

Her 'toned down' yam woon sen was a local and family favourite- requested at every get together.

**Cujo** · 24-01-2011, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

My wife got a bicycle and would use it to get to the tube station in the mornings - she wouldn't do that in a million years back home.

You got married?

**Davis Knowlton** · 24-01-2011, 02:20 PM

^Try to keep up. It's a fantasy wife - just like his fantasy life.

**kmart** · 24-01-2011, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by KOBRIEN

I have a mixture of friends and im happy for the genuine ones to take the piss
as it will be just a laugh with them.

But when you get idiots crossing the line what do you do ? Ignore them , punch them ?

Maybe im thinking too much about it and should only be concerned about how
I feel about the move and us both living together in the U.K

"She's nice. Can you get me one?" -Type remarks are to be expected from a few mates, but I've only really had people generally being polite and respectful to me and the missus during the several times we've been to the UK.

One wag in the pub who repeatedly asked me if she "loved me long time" got a clip round the ear, though.

**peterpan** · 24-01-2011, 03:10 PM

It seemed to me when I stayed in East Anglia for a couple of years that most Thai women that got taken to the UK by their husbands, after 4/5 years scarped.

I remember there was a well publicized case of a the chairman of the gas board, retired and got a sweet little thing from Pattaya about 1/4 his age and settle down to married bliss & retirement in Norfolk, but his wife missed the bright lights and handsum men From Patts and took the tin budgie back home for good.

**Davis Knowlton** · 24-01-2011, 04:34 PM

Another thing my wife found amusing was constantly being asked where she was from. She is a Filipina - but has fairly slanted eyes. She was asked if she was Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Singaporean - just about everything but Filipina. She finally settled on Eskimo, and stuck with that story for the rest of her trip. She was just amazed that Americans couldn't tell a Japanese from a Filipina.

**Takeovers** · 24-01-2011, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

She was just amazed that Americans couldn't tell a Japanese from a Filipina.

Similar experience here. Usually my Filipina wife is asked by Germans if she is Thai.

But really Thais start talking to her in Thai, Chinese in Chinese and Vietnamese try their own language first too.

Funniest was our flight to China with a chinese airline. The stewardess talked to me in chinese assuming I have learned it from my wife.

**Marmite the Dog** · 24-01-2011, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

She was just amazed that Americans couldn't tell a Japanese from a Filipina.

I presume she is now aware of their general ignorance?

**Davis Knowlton** · 24-01-2011, 05:07 PM

Yep. Pretty much so.

**nigelandjan** · 25-01-2011, 01:32 AM

Originally Posted by peterpan

It seemed to me when I stayed in East Anglia for a couple of years that most Thai women that got taken to the UK by their husbands, after 4/5 years scarped.

Oh dear reading this if ( most ) of them do this ( and we are in East Anglia ) I best get meself a big box of tissues ready for a year and a halves time,, Christ just remebered she,a hell of a lot younger than me to ,,,,,,,,,,oooooooo game over !

**bankao dreamer** · 25-01-2011, 03:02 AM

I think its also a confidence thing how well your other half fits in. If there not very confident with the language it can restrict them an awfull lot. My better half is fluent in English (worked as a translator in Thailand) and speaks with no Thai accent. She has even had a debate on the doorstep with Jehovah,s witnesses over the benefits of being a Buddhist. I think they were glad to get away!!!!!!

**peterpan** · 25-01-2011, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

Originally Posted by peterpan

It seemed to me when I stayed in East Anglia for a couple of years that most Thai women that got taken to the UK by their husbands, after 4/5 years scarped.

Oh dear reading this if ( most ) of them do this ( and we are in East Anglia ) I best get meself a big box of tissues ready for a year and a halves time,, Christ just remebered she,a hell of a lot younger than me to ,,,,,,,,,,oooooooo game over !

Nigel, not having a shot at you, but it seems to me that a hell of lot of UK/Thai marriages, (in the UK), seem to fail, I know of 12 friends married to Thai and only one has survived the course.

It was two up until last week when my next door but 1, neighbor came out here for a holiday and returned by himself. His wife of a few years said she had had enough of the UK, wasn't going back.
I don't see near as high attrition rate from US or Antipodean marriges.

**Marmite the Dog** · 25-01-2011, 03:43 PM

I know of a guy in Suffolk who got divorced from his Thai wife. She's a successful restaurateur nowadays and has remarried. Not sure why they separated though.

**DrAndy** · 25-01-2011, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by peterpan

His wife of a few years said she had had enough of the UK

read "him"

**bankao dreamer** · 25-01-2011, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by jandajoy

"FUCK ME DEAD"

Just be thankful she correctly pronounced DEAD !!!!! extra bible studies then mate.

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