"That woman screwed my guy, and me with it" (part 2)
Ton describes the story of Eva. Her husband ran off with a Thai colleague, she had been living in Chiang Mai with him and her kids for over four years. Her marriage, after twenty years, has burst like a soap bubble in Thailand.
Ton tells the true story of Eva. A Dutch woman who saw her 20-year marriage burst like a soap bubble after her husband ran off with a Thai colleague.
Chronic dissatisfaction in contrast with simply surviving
We are back home. Bewilderment, shame, mental poverty and chronic dissatisfaction befell me in the first week after my arrival from Thailand. What a sadness in my motherland.
In a flash I saw him standing there. A sad old elephant on a chain. Limping restlessly from one colossal paw to the other. Angry? Or even worse, perhaps aggressive, because the next trick was already waiting.
