How much money to support a Thai girlfriend?
April 2, 2020 - Reading time: 5 minutes
This question is asked very often and the answer can vary massively depending on your individual circumstances. Some ladies are high maintenance and aim to live a champagne lifestyle, others are quite happy to live in reasonable comfort and support their families.
Some guys send 5,000 – 15,000 THB per month to top up their girlfriend’s minimum wage salary. Other men might support their girlfriend by sending 30,000 – 100,000 THB per month, and sometimes they send even more than this. Much depends on your girlfriend, her lifestyle and any dependents that rely on her.
In order to figure out how much money it will take to support your Thai girlfriend you need to examine her circumstances as well as her ingoings and outgoings. Does your girlfriend have children? Do her parents work for a living? These two questions are very important… Thai women are traditionally responsible for supporting their parents in their old age, and as the partner of a Thai lady this responsibility will ultimately fall on yourself. If your girlfriend (or her parents) are raising children then this is another expense that should be taken into account when you consider paying your girlfriend an allowance.
We have heard stories of women that are happy to work a minimum wage job and receive a small amount of support from their foreign boyfriends so that they are able to live in relative comfort. Other ladies are accustomed to a high rolling lifestyle; they might live in an expensive apartment and be responsible for repayments on a car or motorbike. If your Thai girlfriend is really in love with you, then it’s not unreasonable to expect her to make compromises so that she is not a financial burden on you.
Often is the case that foreign men fall in love with ladies from Isaan, that is the rural northern provinces of Thailand. These ladies usually leave their villages to find work in major cities such as Bangkok. If your girlfriend falls into this category and comes from a family of rice farmers then she may have expenses associated with her family farm, such as fertilizing their fields, planting rice, and harvesting the family’s fields. It’s also common for families in Isaan to be responsible for high interest bank loans… If this applies to your partner then she will also need to save money to pay back any loans her family has taken out. (This tends to be a touchy subject for Thai ladies - don't expect your girlfriend to be honest with you if her family have huge loan repayments to make. Thai women know that their boyfriend isn't going to be pleased to find out she's eyeball deep in debt.)
Is she really your girlfriend?
There is a difference between supporting your girlfriend and paying a lady to be your girlfriend. If you’ve met a lady in a bar and are now offering to pay her an amount of money to spend time with you, this is a different topic altogether and not something we are touching on with this article. However, it’s important to understand which of these two categories your relationship falls into and ensure that your girlfriend has the same view, especially if the relationship started at an adult entertainment center such as Pattaya or the red light districts in Bangkok. Often is the case that such ladies will continue to sleep with their customers in order to earn money whilst being sponsored by their foreign boyfriends... We should know, our job often leads us to exposing women that do exactly this.
Spend a little, save a lot
If you’re sending money to your Thai girlfriend on a regular basis then it often makes sense to be sure that she is faithful to you. We can help by running a background check on her or by checking your girlfriend through a conventional investigation. Due to the prevalence of romance scams in Thailand we are often able to save our clients vast amounts of money and heartache. Please visit our homepage for more information about us and the different services that we offer.
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