Thailand Investigations Blog
Do You Want to Know the Truth?

Have you ever heard that saying? And it is true, isn’t it? Most of the time we prefer to semi-consciously live a lie just because we know that the truth hurts.

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Take Ian, for example. He’s a successful accounting executive, and a successful entrepreneur with several businesses here. To say that he’s got it good would be an understatement. The only problem was a girlfriend he found for himself about six months ago. Pretty, relatively smart, and young, Ian found her in a go-go bar and moved by her story of poverty driving her to do what she does, he took her in. And she did appear to be very grateful for all the help he gave her, and they were very happy. Until one day, in the middle of the night, Ian’s girlfriend — he was even saying that she might be some one he considered marrying one day — took his company car, but not before filling it with a number of expensive things from the house they were staying in. Two laptop computers, mobile phones, and a lot of cash, to name a few. She even held Ian’s personal and business documents on the computer hostage for a time, only sending them electronically after he paid a certain amount.

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If only he had the foresight to approach us for a background check before, or availed of the real time GPS tracking device then he probably would not be in the situation he is in now. He have just concluded a successful investigation of the case and it has now been turned over to the local authorities.

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It is really unfortunate that many of our clients have had the chance to approach us before – some even had suspicions very early on – and yet it is often only when things get out of hand do they think of approaching a private investigation agency.

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This is why we say that the truth really hurts. Many men prefer to live false lives of fantasy, and only when the whole thing comes crashing down – painfully, most often – do they say to themselves, “Why didn’t I think of that before?” or “I should have done this before.” It’s all regrets and ‘ifs’, and it’s really a sad sight to see. We understand that you want to give the benefit of the doubt; that you want to trust a person; that you don’t want to ruin things with seemingly needless suspicion and caution. But the results of that don’t turn up to be all sunshine and rainbows. This why we recommend always using your head first (the one on top, mind you) before you plunge headlong into something like a relationship with a girl you met at a go-go bar. Sometimes it does work out, true, and some men have had the good fortune of finding their true love there. But it’s not a story for everybody.

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Ian’s experience isn’t unique – but so many other men go through the same thing, sometimes even worse. So even if the truth might hurt, it’s still more painful to believe a lie to be true, and get eaten up by it from the inside.