November 11 2003
How to deal with sticky Thai girls

Whether nice girls or bar girls, limpet-like Thai women are easy to meet but hard to shake off and they always try to push the relationship too quickly. Sometimes, they act like a jealous wife after a single date. Thais describe this behaviour as sticky.
When a guy shags a bar girl and waves goodbye, he might assume that the matter is finished but it never is. Later, when she sees him with another girl, there could be an ugly scene. This is pretty rich, considering how many guys she's knocking around with.
Nice girls don't sell their bodies but their behaviour is similar in some respects. A friend of mine recently dated an office girl who he met on the internet. Respectable Thai women are supposed to value their virginity, so he was quite surprised at her eagerness to jump into bed on the first date. When they did the deed, however, it was all a bit perfunctory. The following day, she flew into a rage when he wouldn't discuss marriage. Sensibly, he dumped her - by text message.
It's highly implausible that a woman's feelings for a man could develop so quickly. In reality, her behaviour had nothing to do with my friend's natural charm and good looks. She just wanted to latch on to an eligible farang - any eligible farang. Her intensity was down to possessiveness and my friend was wise not to feel flattered by it.
I had my own brush with stickiness in a pool-bar on Sukhumvit Soi 8. The girls there never hassle me because they know I have a girlfriend. Unfortunately, that all changed last month when a new girl decided to have a go.
She had just broken up with a long-term farang boyfriend and her English was pretty good. Her pool wasn't bad either, so I bought her a drink. Suddenly, she was grabbing at me and crying about her unhappy childhood and suicide attempts. Weeping uncontrollably, she refused to let go and the situation nearly escalated into a hostage drama.
A woman bent on "relationship acceleration" is unlikely to make a suitable or trustworthy partner. However, a decent Thai woman is also likely to be a bit possessive. The challenge is to make her slow down so you can get to know her properly. If she's a babe, you may have to exercise a little restraint yourself.
Discourage her from getting serious too soon and let her know that you will be spending time with other friends. If she doesn't take the hint, then spell it out directly. Don't agree to more than one date a week, don't whisk her away for a weekend and, for heaven's sake, don't shag her until you're ready to make some sort of commitment.
It's best to postpone any conversation about the future of the relationship. To encourage her to be patient, you could set a date for this. In the meantime, quiz her about her past. How many relationships has she had? Were they with foreigners? Why did they fail? Are her goals the same as yours? She may just want to use you to build a house for her family. If that's the case, let her find another sucker.
The stickier the woman, the more certain you can be that she's a con-artist (See Is your Thai sweetheart really a con-woman?). There are decent Thai women out there but it takes time and patience to find one.
[Posted to Relationships by David]
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