This thread was a great read and I'll give my own story as well as ask for some opinions here.
In the past two years, I've become quite fond of a WG I frequent here in my home of Canada. She's from HK and came to Canada to escape an abusive ex-boyfriend and to make easy money as a WG (WGs make more money here and older ones have a longer "lifespan" because of white customers' Asian fetish and most of them can't tell the real ages of Asian people). She's not a stunner, she doesn't have much of an education or serious career potential and after three years in Canada she doesn't know more than 2-3 sentences in English -- but she's always been good to me and it's something I've always appreciated.
I only monger when I'm single, and when I'm single I tend to want a girlfriend so I appreciate small affections from girls a lot more. What can I say? I want to settle down and get married.
So over the course of the first year, my visits to this WG become more frequent (partly because her apartment was close to my home), we begin talking about our real lives more often and she begins sms'ing me just to say hi. Later on I'm introduced to her WG flatmates and friends (as well as their boyfriends and the mamasan/boss and her husband -- my jealous WG even asked if I ever had sex with her WG friends). One night, after a late meeting, she asks me to drive her home, she invites me inside, to her bedroom, and we fuck again (I didn't offer her any $$ and it never came up even though I did think about it). After that, I was still visiting her about once a month, but if she was bored or lonely she would give me a call. Throughout this time I would still be giving her $$ though -- the distinction here being that I was still seeing her as a WG and not as a GF.
But we did have our problems. My Cantonese was rubbish and her English was nonexistent. Our communication was okay, but my Cantonese was too poor to form complex ideas and sentences. Still, our relationship continued to grow. I seriously entertained the idea of her being my GF.
But real life happened and I met someone new who I started a relationship with. I told my WG this and that I couldn't see her anymore and she was devastated and cried. She hated me. I now realized that she had real feelings for me as well, but at the time I didn't think that a WG could ever fall for a regular guy and not see him as a walking bank machine.
Things with me and my now ex-gf didn't work out so I called up my WG again. She wasn't happy, and would humiliate me in front of her friends every time as revenge, but over time we patched things up. A short while ago she took a break from work and being at home bored, she called me up and we began spending our days together (I had the time after being laid off because of the market crash). We got talking (and this is where I'd like some opinions here) and she told me that after three years of being a WG, she has almost no savings (not more than a few hundred CAN$ at any time). I knew that she gambles away a lot of money in mahjong and at the casino, but on one occasion when we were out, she told me that guys in Hong Kong pay for everything for their girlfriends -- food, gifts, going out, partying, rent -- pretty much all expenses. This girl had no concept of saving money or even what anything costs. Is this how Hong Kong girls are like?
Anyways, at this point of my story we're still having sex but now only at her home bedroom, and I stopped giving her $$ for it (though I do pay for everything on our "dates"). I had stopped giving her $$ because the last time I tried, she gave me a disdainful look.
I also spend time on various Thailand forums (more to talk about travel, but I do read all the mongering forums of course), and I know that it definitely does happen where WGs will choose to be with a guy outside of work. To paraphrase what one Thai WG said: In a bar a girl can't choose her customers, but how she spends her time outside of the bar is her own choice. If a WG wants to spend her time with you then know that that you are her choice. It was when my girl stopped asking for $$ that I realized that our relationship had gone to a different stage. She's still working as a WG though.
Now fast-forward to today. My girl's work visa is expiring (I wonder what the hell she told immigration in order to get into Canada) and thus she's getting kicked out of the country. I'm tempted to follow her to Hong Kong, but I know that I probably won't be able to get a job. She treats me like a real boyfriend at this point even though we're not officially a couple, and if I were financially secure I might not care that she doesn't at all come close to my ex-girlfriends in terms of education, jobs, motivation -- just general criteria of what I want in a partner. And we still have that communication problem (though me being CBC, I'm sure that given the time and motivation I'll be fluent again like during my youth). But she treats me incredibly sweetly and affectionately.
Anyways, the point of this long post is that 1.) You never know what life is going to throw at you; and 2.) Not at WGs are after your money. Good people are out there, in all sorts of professions and classes. Don't base your opinion on just one experience. More than that, keep a cool head about things.
[ Last edited by Freelancer at 15-9-2009 19:03 ]
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16-9-2009 23:08 Karma +2
thanks for sharing