having money problems, you say?

the following is a true story that happened to me on one of my first trips to thailand.

back in 1995, I fell in love with this girl while on vacation in bangkok, thailand. she worked as a model for this car dealership. it was love at first sight. having just experienced a divorce after being married for like 7 years, I was a total rookie on how to deal with these new feelings of mine.

all I wanted to do was please this new love in my life. towards that goal, I bought her a gold bracelet, invited her to eat out with me whenever we gather together, even took her on a trip to this beach resort for a week.

this relationship (if you can call it that) lasted for close to 3 months. and cost me close to $10,000 dollars. this may seem like a small sum of money to many of you reading this story. but to me, it was equivalent to the amount of money I would save working for 4 months on my job back home. in thailand, in 1995, let me tell you - spending over $3,000 dollars a month is living like a king.

so, what happened you ask? more important, how did I deal with the money that I had just wasted on this short affair?

ok. the girl ended up marrying this other guy - who had more to offer her. as for the $10,000 I had racked up on my credit cards. ...well, I'm chinese. and we chinese in general are savers. I basically took a big hit on one of my bank accounts.

did it hurt, you ask? ..both mentally, and financially.

if you ask me, will it happen again? ..I doubt it.

for you guys out there who want to learn the hard way, and don't have the savings to take the hit, let me offer you this online credit counseling site that can possibly assist you to get you "out of the hole", so to speak.

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