The truth hurts, but you need to know it
We’ve been going on and on here about the importance of knowing the truth, even though it sometimes is something you don’t want to hear, something undesirable. But nevertheless, we here at Thailand Investigations always advocate the benefits – especially in the long term – of knowing the truth at the onset.
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With permission from the client who emailed this letter to us, we are posting it here to help you guys understand why it always pays to know the truth. We’ve changed certain parts of this to help protect our client’s identity, but the message and the jist of the letter are the same.
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Michel and everyone at Thailand Investigation,
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Greetings!
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I’m writing to you today, first of all, to thank you for the help you, your service, and your blog have done in my life.
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Like probably many of your other clients, I too, fell into the trap of trusting the wrong local. I really don’t have anything against the local girls – I have met a lot who are of good character; it just so happened that I did not fall in love with one of them. It may sound corny, but that’s what happened. Sometimes you come to a point where you want to take things to a deeper level and won’t be satisfied with something just operating in a casual manner.
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She wasn’t the type of girl who was aggressive (at least openly) or assertive – to me she looked like a simple country lass who had fallen on hard times. I myself have been affected by the economic downturn that has plagued the world, and I can only imagine how hard it must have been for someone like her. Well, that was what I thought at least at the beginning.
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She was very loving and caring at the start of it all – there is truly something to the image of Thai girls being very attentive. For the first few month, everything was going on perfectly and smoothly, I was happy. I was not breaching the thought of marriage though (thankfully) as I was busy with many business pursuits both connected to the job and some on the side projects. Through all of that, I never thought to hire a private investigator to check on her background and check her story. The short of it was I trusted her implicitly with almost everything. I even gave her a credit card, which, to her credit at least, she did not use much – but thinking of it in hindsight, it might just have been a ploy to allay suspicion and not to rush things.
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One thing I will say about these types of girls is that they are very patient. They’ve done this before so they can be considered pros and experts at this. When you think of it, it’s a good life – they get to live in a nice home and have all their needs provided for, and most of the time, more than that as well.
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(to be continued next week)
April 17th, 2010 at 19:37
this story is very intriguing to me. I think I know what happens in the end but of course it is different when the story is being told by someone who is directly related and affected by it. I also agree with the basic principle that it is much better to know the truth at the beginning of things rather than later because things get more complicated as time passes, and lies, when prolonged can cause even bigger damage. In the end the one who is deceived suffers the most. So knowing the truth is always very important.
April 18th, 2010 at 17:22
these women have no shame. Shame on them! They victimize poor sods like this fellow who the letter is from. Hats off to him for sending this letter – there something about a personal account that reaches out and affects you much more than an information article would. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great that there are a lot of informative articles here, but it’s really different when you put a real person into the mix. Kudos to both Thailand Investigations and this anonymous letter sender for sending the message out to all of us.
April 19th, 2010 at 23:33
@lesterb – please stay tuned for the continuation of this story. Thank you for visiting our blog!
@haroldvan – thank you for appreciating the effort we do here. Letters like this don’t happen a lot, as many clients would rather and prefer to forget (for good reason) the past, as cases like these are never pleasant, especially for them. They need to move on with their lives. Along with you we all here appreciate the value of a letter like this, which is why we thank again out letter sender for reaching out and helping others not fall into the same trap he did.