As an American friend here in Singapore remarked to me the other day: “There's a certain kind of man who, after years of being ugly, suddenly is not when he comes to Asia. He’s flocked by young women and realises they had him all wrong back at home, it must have been the harsh overhead lights of his office. In this bar in Bangkok, hey, he’s Prince Charming.”
The expat man as a chick magnet? It may be a cliché, but it’s one that worries many expat wives out here. Horror stories of so-and-so’s hubby running off with the Filipina maid, or a Vietnamese cutie / Thai bargirl he met on a business trip are rife at expat coffee mornings.
My friend’s remark was prompted by a story she was relating of a male acquaintance of hers, a high-earning senior executive at an international company. He dumped his wife to marry a woman who had called out to him from a kiosk in Bangkok. Fran said the temptress had diamond studs in her gold-capped front teeth.
I started hearing such stories soon after my arrival as an expat in the flesh pots of the east. Soon, disaster befell one of my neighbours, a British woman married to a hotshot businessman – they had four children. Full story...
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The expat man as a chick magnet? It may be a cliché, but it’s one that worries many expat wives out here. Horror stories of so-and-so’s hubby running off with the Filipina maid, or a Vietnamese cutie / Thai bargirl he met on a business trip are rife at expat coffee mornings.
My friend’s remark was prompted by a story she was relating of a male acquaintance of hers, a high-earning senior executive at an international company. He dumped his wife to marry a woman who had called out to him from a kiosk in Bangkok. Fran said the temptress had diamond studs in her gold-capped front teeth.
I started hearing such stories soon after my arrival as an expat in the flesh pots of the east. Soon, disaster befell one of my neighbours, a British woman married to a hotshot businessman – they had four children. Full story...
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