Reader-submitted Thailand stories covering first trips, nightlife, Pattaya experiences, relationships, expat life and successful marriages. Real experiences from visitors and long-time Thailand regulars.
First a little bit about me. I’m a 58 year old American living in sunny California east of the San Francisco Bay Area. I’ve been married and divorced three times before reaching the age of 35. I’ve come to the realization that I’m not very good at selecting a lifelong partner and that I should…
In October 2020/21 I started talking to a beautiful then 35 year old Thai lady on the language exchange app HelloTalk. As our online relationship started to grow we talked pretty much non stop indeed on some weekend nights we would literally spend seven hours talking. Then in March 2022 we finally met in Phuket…
It started in 2016. I had just lost my mother back in the UK. It was a sudden death from nowhere and she was only in her mid 50s. My mother lived abroad but was back in the UK visiting us. Me and my sister lived next door to each other and my mother was…
My story begins I guess about 25 years ago. I married an Indonesian girl I had met and worked with and we eventually settled in Australia and had two lovely children. Before the second child had started school I noticed my wife had been unfaithful it was more than just one man. Also she had…
my name is Om. My husband has been asking me to write this for a long time. I would start and stop often as it’s sometimes difficult and I don’t always like to remember the past. But here it is my life before meeting my now husband of 12 years. Table of Contents Toggle Early…
So the story goes after our 3 day stay at the Airbnb in Pattaya my friends and I are set to leave for Bangkok because we’ll be catching a flight to the Philippines the next day. Our friend who had the ATV accident was set to leave later on that day back home to the…
Me and my buddy Mike decided to take a boys’ trip to the Philippines Angeles City as we tried to invite other guys to come along but they couldn’t make it on the dates we chose to go. So it just ended up being us. Mike just got his green card and is from Canada…
Here is my story from a younger guy that wants to share his What if story ive heard we all have one of those so here Is mine I am 24 years old finally putting together a trip with my friends to head back to Pattaya five years after my first visit. But before I…
“I previously sent a story about my trip to Thailand a few months ago when a woman in Phuket took advantage of me. I recently went back to Thailand in late September/October and have another story to share. I’m pleased to report that I learned valuable lessons from my last trip and nothing like that…