First of all, this is not exactly Pattaya-specific and I apologize for that, but I couldn't find a better subreddit to post in - those regular Thailand or Bangkok subreddits have far more "normal" content and mine is probably not appropriate. It might however be relevant to the experiences of farangs in both Bangkok and Pattaya, and I would love to hear the experiences of others here, and to understand how common it is.
I go to Thailand once every 1.5 to 2 months on average for work (each time for about a week). Other weeks I'm mostly traveling around the region.
On one of the trips, I went to one of the F shops on Sukhumvit Soi 22, and went back to this nice lady (early 30s, slim, no tattoos, quite pretty in my eyes) a few times on 2-3 trips.
She was more passionate than most - a lot of GFE, hugging, DFK blah blah, always did her hardest to give me a good time. Unfortunately she doesn't know much English though, but I got to learn bits and pieces about her through simple words and Google translate.
Eventually I got her contact and invited her for a late mookrata after her work. Following day invited her to my hotel after her work at about 10pm. We basically F-ed like rabbits until 1-2am before I had to leave for my flight, we kissed goodbye and she called her own Grab home. I was expecting her to ask for money after that but she did not, in fact I found it surprising that she was still OK to F after she's had a full day of working at the shop. Every bit as passionate too.
I also started bringing her out to explore the city together. We did a lot of stuff that typical couples do - trying new restaurants, trying street food, bowling, etc, lots of hand-holding/hugging/affection outside. She seemed like a "simple" girl and was honestly happy with whatever I wanted to do or eat, even if it's just simple food that costs under 100 baht. I always ask her to choose what she wants from the menu and she always just chooses the cheaper items. I'm the one who wants to eat better stuff usually. Of course I (took the initiative to) foot all the food bills but I'm happy to (and she makes it a point to thank me after every meal) and anyway it's quite cheap as I never eat at high end places, so I have zero problems.
She is also very polite to everyone she sees - waitstaff, grab drivers, people outside etc, maybe it's how all Thais behave but it's something I really liked.
When we go to a pharmacy etc, she just takes the initiative to pay for her own skincare/hygiene products, and I let her.
Overall it was honestly great.. daytime I either work/meet clients, or go out with her if I'm free, and at night we always have mindblowing sex (one thing - she sometimes tells me no "boom boom" (jokingly? can't tell) when we're in my room, but once I start licking her nips or frenching her, she starts going crazy and becomes a nympho. It's not hard at all to make her go for 2 rounds a night).
On one of the nights I accidentally entered her raw while we were fooling around in the bathtub, and when we progressed to the bed I continued that way. Not sure what happened but when I was about to cum, I asked if I could cum inside her (kind of in the heat of passion but I wasn't expecting a Yes to be honest). She actually said yes. She doesn't know anything much about me so if she got pregnant, I could have disappeared and she couldn't do anything, so at that time it felt weird. Anyway, I eventually found out that she takes those morning-after pills (when we went into a pharmacy and she bought the pills - first time I knew of those pills to be honest, she was rather surprised that I didn't know).
(Yes, I know it's very risky to go raw especially with a "working lady", I'm going in with both eyes open and I do regular HIV tests. The feeling of cumming inside is really too good to resist especially with her.. it's those kind of highly charged, passionate orgasms when hugging her tightly and cumming hard into her and feeling her quivering together with me).
We went on like this for another of my trips to Thailand, then on one of the days while I was in Bangkok, I asked if she was free to meet, and she suddenly told me that she had quit her job at the F shop, and needed time that day to sort things out and couldn't meet on the day itself. She didn't give much details and I didn't probe.. but it seemed like she had totally quit working a regular job at the F shops, because she was basically free to hang out with me the whole day, for my whole trip (albeit a short one). And this continued for the next few trips where she seemed to be able to drop everything to be with me for nearly the entire day and night. She did say she had started an online clothing business... although how much could she earn from there?
I recently brought her on a 4-day trip to Hua Hin and we had such a great time too.. exploring in the day, relaxing by the beach or pool, morning wake-up sex, occasional afternoon sex, and late night sex while on a moderate amount of alcohol (she doesn't drink much but indulges me, we had a lot of fun trying different new drinks from 7-11). We always did it raw and I always finished inside her... in short, we really behaved a lot like regular couples (but never had any long/serious conversations due to language barrier). As usual she never asked for money ever (even paying for moderately expensive meals once in a while like 400-500 baht total when it was more convenient to pay by QR code), and she always says she is doing fine when I asked her about her life and business, though she says she has no real passion and doesn't know what she really wants to do.
Having read a lot of stories online, I've always expected her to start telling me about her sick mother blah blah, but she never did on any of the occasions we've met (I've known her for nearly a year already). In fact she tells me her parents are doing fine and they have a decent house and farm in Isan.
Another thing is, we actually hardly text once I'm out of Bangkok, maybe 1 or 2 texts every few days and we could go weeks without texting until I tell her I'm coming "next week".
Her background: She is from Isan and she has a child with a Thai husband from fairly long ago.. her parents take care of the child. She used to run a few mookata shops but things turned sour with her husband who turned into a gaming and gambling addict (who eventually took his own life when she left him - she opened this info up to me recently), and after she closed all the shops, she worked for 4 years in Korea in a massage parlour (something she shared quite early on). She had a BF while working there for a while, but eventually ended the r/s when she was caught in a raid and had to leave Korea.
What's going on here? I'm expecting that she might be freelancing (surely her newly started online clothing business can't be earning her much given there's so much competition), yet she doesn't hide her phone at all while with me (she's mostly just on tiktok/instagram/facebook doomscrolling, calling family sometimes, or texting her friend occasionally in Thai). And she never asks me to buy her anything, and doesn't even want to shop when we're together. I had to force her to buy a swimsuit before we left for Hua Hin, lol.). I feel like I don't want to probe her too much as she might not want me to see her that way (if she's really freelancing), yet if she's really freelancing, I can understand as well. Her background isn't exactly squeaky clean and she's had stints in Korea and Bangkok as a WL.
Am I overthinking this.. is it just because she simply likes being with me and therefore doesn't ask me for anything else... yet? She doesn't see me as a BF (and I know she knows that I don't see her as a GF - because she tells me sometimes that she feels fat as she eats too much when I'm with her, and she needs to slim down as she doesn't have a BF yet - and I didn't counter at all). Though we behave totally like couples outside, lots of hugging, affection etc. I'm not complaining about anything at all but the whole relationship feels a little weird to me.
Sorry for the wall of text.. I didn't have anyone else I could share this with, and wanted to see if anyone had a similar experience to share, or comments and questions are welcome too.