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I wanna say Thank You for this great website Thailand Friends to make me met my hubby (mikephenn). I didn't expect to find my soul mate here but only making a good friend. I've joined this site since April 2011 and met my hubby next month. We both didn't know that after a long mail and chat for a month could make we fall in love each other. The topic we talked was Buddhist but I had found that he got my interest when he answered my mail. It's so funny that we are not the teenager but we loved each other so fast. Flooding was a turning point to make Mike asked me to marry later. He was worried to lose me from flooding in my area while I was so confident he's a real good guy as he helped my family at that time. Now I'm so happy I'm his wife and soon I'll move to USA to start my new life with him. I love you so much Mike my love. [ATTACH=CONFIG]119645[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]119646[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]119647[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]119648[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]119649[/ATTACH]

Girls, is it important to you, to be a virgin when you get married?

The headline is a quote from one of my favorite พลพล songs... But now phua thai politician Sunai Julphongsathorn suggests that poor thaiwomen, marry a german, swede or norweigian (they never suggest danes ) He is looking to get a lot of wotes in the future I am sure .

A couple of generations ago virginity was a pre-requisite to marriage. Today sexual compatibility is regarded by many as very important in a relationship. Is it really essential to know your potential spouse sexually? Could you consider a long term relationship with a view to marriage, if the object of your desire insists on preserving her/his virtue until after marriage?

I honestly searched the forums before deciding to post this question. If someone knows of an existing thread I would like to receive the link. I do not want to debate whether to give sinsod and "tong mhand" or not. "Tong mhand" is the gold given to your fiancee for the engagement or wedding. Particularly from Thai ladies, what would you think if your boyfriend/fiance asked you to take an IOU for the "tong mhand" or Gold because the price of gold is very high right now. Is this insulting ? AN IOU is a way of postponing the purchase of the actual Gold or Gold jewelry. Gold = US$ 1,016 per ounce or about THB 16,100 per baht. Thanks for your kind responses.

On January 4th, Deff Yingyuen married his deceased girlfriend Sarinya Kamsook (R.I.P.) in the city of Surin, Thailand. The couple had been together for 10 years, but Sarinya tragically died in an car accident the day before the wedding. Deff wanted to go forward with the ceremony anyway. via http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicay/thai-man-married-dead-girlfriend-c8o

According to Robert Leahy, Ph.D., here are the 7 reasons men do not listen to women: Gentlemen, start your engines . . . LOL

Absantee posted this in her journal: http://www.thailandfriends.com/index.php?name=Journal&view=journal&juid=83564&jid=69730 Which has sparked a debate in that journal, im abit tired of listening to the "racist" card being thrown, and it was suggested it was made into a thread, so here goes (hope its alright absentee). PS: keep it clean, a subject like this could possible explode.

It's funny and sad in the same time that I have seen my friends and my mom's friends got married and their lives were totally changed. When I was young I did believe when ppl met their soul mates and got married their lives would be happy ever after but many things more than love. hrrrr.. Case 1. Promotion period....I knew this couple when I was a teenager, I helped my mom at her shop when I got semester break. My mom's friend rent my mom's shop for working as a dress maker... there was a guy who liked her so much... he worked at a garage in Ekkamai, he came to see my mom's friend every evening at Sukhumvit soi 1 (There was no BTS that time and he didn't has car) ... so he did won her heart... They got married... and my mom's friend bought a condo room with her own money at Soi Barring, she came to work every day by taking a bus, her husband requested her to buy a car so he could drive her to work and bring her home. So she did bought a second hand car for him. When Promotion was over.... I asked my mom's friend every time I met her.."where is your car? I really wanna see it" "Can you drive? Ahh you don't need to drive, right cuz you got a driver, haha" but she never laugh about it. Cuz her husband keep his car for himself. When she pregnant she still took bus to work and home. Until now she still go to work and go home by taking a bus.... Sometimes I saw she cried... my mom got only one word for her "PATIENCE" Case 2. It happened to my friend... I know this couple since I started working at my workplace...I know since they were BF/GF. They are very good couple to me. The first 2 years that I started work, I didn't have a car, when I worked until late at night, my friend always asked her BF to take me back home... and he always did that. He was a very nice man... He lived in Rangsit, he drove from his place to her place at Ladproa brought her to her workplace at Suk. before he went to work at Silom. Every evening, he came to pick her up, sent her home (sometimes dropped me at Ratchada) then he went back to Rangsit. I told my friend they should get married... and not so long they did. When promotion was over. After they got married he moved to her house... changed job. I could feel that he had small changed. When we went shopping..he called her that he arrived the shopping mall, and he didn't wanna wait. (but when he was BF he could wait). One day There was a farang trainee, he was 17 years old but his body was bigger than me.. His last day I had to take him to see a movie and dinner. I didn't wanna go with him alone... so I asked her to be with me. Half of movie her husband called said he arrived so she just left me and farang trainee at that moment. A big changed came when she pregnant her first son. She had to go back home by BTS and he would pick her up at the station until she got her 2nd son. Until now... when we work late at night I always drive to her place, it's quite far from me but I don't wanna let her take taxi... her soi is too dark, and kinda dangerous. My mom said I always think about her safety but I have never think about my own safety. Plus, one day she told me, "Neung if you wanna get married, find someone who is really really talkative, you see my husband? you know he was a talkative guy but nowaday, he just keeps his thought in his mind, and I don't know what he wants me to do...." grrrrrrrrrrrr.... Case 3. I got a friend of mine got same same story, the man who was her BF always helped her, drove her home and work, when they became husband and wife. Same story had happened. Now she has to wait for her husband after work under the express way... Why the guys changed their behavior after get married?... does every couple like this? It makes me scared of married life...

In much of India (where i'm travelling now) to marry outside your own caste is highly discouraged, and to marry a non-Hindu or a foreigner is almost unthinkable.... which, by contrast, has made me realize how open Thailand is with repect to marriage with an outsider. It seems like for many thais, marrying a foreigner is not only perfectly acceptable but for some even considered desirable...even in the supposedly liberal west you won't often see this seeming total acceptance of out-group marriage so what's going on here? are thais just so laid back that they don't mind mixing with other groups? or is there an undercurrent of resentment or disapproval of all these mixed marriages...

Is it to be married complicated a thaiaendisches girl? I would like to marry a Thai woman. But for that I must find first my dream woman. Perhaps it works out if I will go to Thailand soon.

Well...dowry is thai culture , isn't it? But many countries don't do it ? I've heard that thai woman who want to marry with her foreign bf got conflict about the dowry... Guy : why i pay...why too high Girl : Thai culture... Are you married? Please give case study of your marriage and dowry....if u coud tell

.... errrrrr I mean.... Its totally complicated being married... You cant be able to go anywhere in this world without your hubby's signature. You cant do this... you cant do that... blah blah blah... The only case that seems to make sense is that... when you had kids.. then you got to do it for your kids. <Oh yes.. and another superb thing is ... to get to wear the Wedding Dress... from John Galliano 8) .> BUT... if you are NOT having kids... Why do you want to marry ? -WB-