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She helped me find my hotel on day one in Bangkok. Twelve days later I found out her name, her age, and almost everything she'd told me was a lie.
A 31-year-old Australian meets Noi when she offers to help him find his hotel in Asok, Bangkok. Twelve days of perfect attention later, on their last day together, she tells him she loves him just as her ID card reveals a name and age completely different from what she'd given him from the start.
She gave me a free bowl of noodles at her mum's stall. The buffalo has never been sick.
A 50-year-old Brit, freshly divorced, met Nitia, a maths teacher in Khon Kaen who'd spent years keeping men at arm's length. Years of FaceTime, visits dodging COVID, and a first daughter later, the wedding is no longer a possibility but a foregone conclusion.
Five years, a house in Chiang Mai, a pickup truck and £30,000. She had my case packed in seconds.
A Mancunian recounts how five years with a Thai woman who claimed to own a hotel in Chiang Mai ended with over £30,000 lost on land, a house and a pickup truck, and a suitcase packed within seconds the night he said no.
Her dad had supposedly been in an accident and the hospital wanted money to release him. Months later I met a woman who never asked me for anything.
After a separation, a 41-year-old Belgian tried south east Asian dating sites and ran into scam after scam, starting with a Filipino woman who always had a new family emergency. He then met a Thai woman who never asked him for anything, and married her on her fifth visit to Europe.
She'd step outside to take calls from other guys. At least she was honest about it.
A Portuguese man used the Phuket Sandbox for a no-strings escape and ended up with Som, 32, three months of hidden beaches and one clear rule from day one. Four months later he understood she'd never really stopped keeping her options open.