Guide for dating thai girls, with more the expat in mind:
1. Don't try to date a bargirl. Just don't. They're for fun. Enjoy them. But leave it at that. Find one with no connection at all to the nightlife. Seems hard at first, but gets easier with time.
2. Be careful with girls under 25. Especially if you're over 40. Thai girls are fairly immature in general, but if she's under 25 forget it. If you're an older guy, thai women in their 30s and 40s seem to make for very happy and stable relationships.
3. Be very firm about money. She will try to test you to see if you're dumb and loose with it. If you are, she will lose respect for you and treat you like an ATM. However, if you are modest and fair then she will respect you. Remember that it doesn't take a lot of money to offer thai girls a better life than what they're used to.
4. Find a girl with a job. Make her keep it. If she sits around your place all day doing nothing, she may become bored, lonely, spoiled, fat and / or unpleasant, none of which will work out well for you.
5. Be extra careful with girls from Isaan. There are certainly many nice ones from there, but there's a reason why that region supplies 95% of prostitutes.
6. If she tells you it's customary to support her family financially, don't do it. And possibly break up with her. This is just a scam.
7. Some more things to watch out for: a "brother" she seems awfully close to. 50 or 100 farang "friends" on facebook / skype / etc. If she's not working but seems to have enough money to live on. Good English despite a very low education.
8. Don't rush into marriage and children. Many of them push these things hard because they want to lock a man down. But take your time.
9. Be prepared that she will be extremely jealous, especially in the beginning. Looking through your phone, calling you constantly to check on you, etc. Once she feels safe that you aren't about to break up with her, she'll relax and give you some leeway.
10. It's somewhat customary and accepted by thai women that their man will play around on the side. As long as it's nothing serious, is discreet and doesn't interfere with her, they'll generally look the other way. Even if she suspects you spent the afternoon at the massage parlour, she'll be fine if you come home to her every night.
11. Thai women flip out and go nutty if you leave them home alone for a few days. They'll even start seeing ghosts. Be careful about long trips unless you want to deal with hysteria.
12. There are nice legitimate girls to be found on the main e-dating sites, but a good number of the girls on there are "grey area" semi-pros. Looking for free holidays, new cell phones, or unusually large taxi bills to come visit your hotel. I've found multiple gogo girls on dating sites before too, even ones I had slept with before. You have to wade through all of this if you want to find a dateable girl on an internet dating site. If possible, it's better to meet girls through work, through friends, or just while out at restaurants or shopping areas (away from Sukhumvit).
Anything I missed?
