supporting thai wife

[beer monkey]

Well the delicacy of the betel nut is slowly dying out i suspect, as the old oldies die off......

What sort of place is it Dee..?

[dee]

its just like what you described.a sh.thole!!!!!! i mean heaven!!!!!!

[aznyron]

Simon if I was making 300+ baht a month in BKK my wife would be with me as for how much give her allowance for her to spend as she pleases that is very good income. my wife with me or should I say I am with my wife LOL in the village 4 days a week I am there now what a sh/it hole it is but that was my error
for not looking first & trusting her judgement which is some thing I would never do again. so now the house which is very nice is a gift to her and there will be no more expensive gifts the truck is hers that will be paid off Aug/2010 then it decision time in what I want to do with what ever time I have left of course she will be with me until I die that her promise to me

[parrot]

"betel nut"

It's the betel nut! That's what's driving the cost of keeping a girl in the village happy! And all along I thought it was the cost of playing dominoes or 2-digit lottery.

Off topic but on betel nut:
Does anybody remember the days of villagers occupying the main floor of the Bangkok Bank with their spit cans or plastic spitbag by their side while a family member conducted business with the bank? Just 13 short years ago!

[dee]

its still the same in nong khai on a monday and friday mornings ,at the bangkok bank.

well ive decided to give her a pay rise to bt15,000.she was struggling on bt10,000 a month.

[homer]

its still the same in nong khai on a monday and friday mornings ,at the bangkok bank.

well ive decided to give her a pay rise to bt15,000.she was struggling on bt10,000 a month.

If all her expenses are being met Dee, I fail to see how she could be struggling on bt10,000 a month. At the risk of sounding like a "Cheap Charlie", bt10,000 goes a long way in Udon, especially if you don't have farang habits like western food, smoking, and a few pints with the boys. As for the bt45,000 a month allowance someone else mentioned, I only have two words for that. HOLY SH&T! That's more than what I spend in a month in Udon including my room at the Ruysuk, transportation,(tuk tuk) and the above mentioned farang goodies. Thank God I have a woman who's more than self-sufficient and budget conscious.

[jafip]

First post on an interesting and much-discussed topic. My long-term gal works for a company, and lives with me in BKK (she's from udon originally tho). I usually supplement her to the tune of 15k per month, and leave her to manage "family issues". Why? Because although I know she can survive on her salary, and many do, she's shown herself good at managing the money and I want her to have an improved lifestyle without asking me everytime she needs the cash to do it. And also, because of my generally short fuse for family interactions (with hers AND mine), and strong belief we are a mixed culture relationship so special concessions on both sides are necessary, I prefer she take care of the family issues rather than me directly. It's my failing, but I'm just not an extended-family type of guy.

If she decided to quit her job on the basis she has the means to live a life of ease, I'd rethink the whole strategy

Plus of course I pay all the bills - rent etc. That's where it gets interesting tho - I know one guy who says he gives "only 10k", but then I see him buying cars, a house for the family etc etc, and when you amortize that over the year it adds up to a whole lot more. Some dupes basically hand over their whole pay packet, but out out of shame or embarrassment or whatever, try to put up a "manly" front to their buddies of how little they give as if it is some measure of how much they are loved. To be honest if a guy wants to hand over everything, that's his business not mine, but what I find amusing is all the cover stories almost as if he is trying to fool himself (which he probably is).