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When I mean from Thailand I mean born there and raised until adulthood, my wife came to the US when she was in her late 20's and has been very slow to Americanize, which is a good and bad thing. The message here I wanted to be predicated around certain behaviors of her that I find complete hilarity and lack of understanding of...
- Obesession with keeping the floor clean and no shoes in the house. To say this is a pet peace would be an understatement, when we remodeled the house she wanted tile in every single room, I refused and we settled on tile in the common areas, bathrooms, kitchen, dining room, hall ways. The very first thing she does when she wakes in the morning is grab her straw broom (yes the broom is from Thailand) and sweeps the floor, she does this usually 3 times a day and mops even other day. The rooms with rugs she really could care less about and might get vacuumed once a week, I usually break down and do that myself, it seems she cannot identify with carpet so she's like fuck that...
- Cooking Thai cuisine everyday, she litterally eats Thai food everyday like she cannot do without it. She cooks 2 cups of rice everyday, that usually the first thing she does after cleaning the floor is load up the rice maker. When she cooks she makes enough food to feed a family, but always has leftovers so she can eat later or the next day. For her leftovers are kept good for a few days, not alway left in the fridge either. She likes to leave food in the pans on the stove and just throw a lid on it, it can be consumed later or the next day. If I toss her leftovers out, she acts like I stole money from her.
- Watching Thia shows on YouTube, this is an everyday activity, the Thai drama is rediculous with Asian chicks portrayed as being crazy, which isn't actually completely untrue. Also when we watch Emglish speaking TV she insiste I put on English subtitles so she can read along as certain accents give her problems, game of thrones for instance.
- sending money home to the parents, this is the one thing that drives me nuts. She sends money home every month, all her sisters send money home every month. It seems like Thai people feel obligated to ensure their parents who made irresponsible decisions earlier in life have a better standard of living than the people who are responsible and save/invest their money, WTF?
- Gardening, we have a large garden and landscape, I've built beatiful raised beds in the garden and limestone retaining walls for flowers in the front of the house. She will plant stuff inside the beds, then next thing I know she plants shit in random places outside of the beds which makes no sense. I'll usually find out after she yells at me because I either mowed over it or weed wacked it down, I will always say I thought those were weeds, why did you plant those there?
I love my wife to death and she's the mother of my children, but i never think I'll understand her due to the illogical and random way she does things...
- Obesession with keeping the floor clean and no shoes in the house. To say this is a pet peace would be an understatement, when we remodeled the house she wanted tile in every single room, I refused and we settled on tile in the common areas, bathrooms, kitchen, dining room, hall ways. The very first thing she does when she wakes in the morning is grab her straw broom (yes the broom is from Thailand) and sweeps the floor, she does this usually 3 times a day and mops even other day. The rooms with rugs she really could care less about and might get vacuumed once a week, I usually break down and do that myself, it seems she cannot identify with carpet so she's like fuck that...
- Cooking Thai cuisine everyday, she litterally eats Thai food everyday like she cannot do without it. She cooks 2 cups of rice everyday, that usually the first thing she does after cleaning the floor is load up the rice maker. When she cooks she makes enough food to feed a family, but always has leftovers so she can eat later or the next day. For her leftovers are kept good for a few days, not alway left in the fridge either. She likes to leave food in the pans on the stove and just throw a lid on it, it can be consumed later or the next day. If I toss her leftovers out, she acts like I stole money from her.
- Watching Thia shows on YouTube, this is an everyday activity, the Thai drama is rediculous with Asian chicks portrayed as being crazy, which isn't actually completely untrue. Also when we watch Emglish speaking TV she insiste I put on English subtitles so she can read along as certain accents give her problems, game of thrones for instance.
- sending money home to the parents, this is the one thing that drives me nuts. She sends money home every month, all her sisters send money home every month. It seems like Thai people feel obligated to ensure their parents who made irresponsible decisions earlier in life have a better standard of living than the people who are responsible and save/invest their money, WTF?
- Gardening, we have a large garden and landscape, I've built beatiful raised beds in the garden and limestone retaining walls for flowers in the front of the house. She will plant stuff inside the beds, then next thing I know she plants shit in random places outside of the beds which makes no sense. I'll usually find out after she yells at me because I either mowed over it or weed wacked it down, I will always say I thought those were weeds, why did you plant those there?
I love my wife to death and she's the mother of my children, but i never think I'll understand her due to the illogical and random way she does things...
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