A man recently shared his story of how his Vietnam wife ran away months after getting married.
Here is his story:
So I’m already in my 40s and I don’t really have the opportunity to meet anyone since my company has converted to 100% working from home and letting go of the office for cost-saving reasons and my social circle is all full of married people.
So I took the advice of my friend and went to a Vietnam bride agency, they gave me options to choose a package. Where I can meet 1 or 2 of them or several of them in the VIP $8888 package.
I decided to get the best package as I do not want to save money for finding the right partner. The agency flew 5 of them over after I picked them from the catalogue.
Most of them are in their early 20s and seem to be very young, 4 of them could speak mandarin and 1 could not. One of them caught my eye with a sweet smile and I thought that this was going to be a happy ending.
But deep down I know that there is an age gap and I would be a lot of patience.
Ran away
I did not host a grand wedding ceremony as I was not really proud of “buying a bride”, only my closest friends attended the ROM and we started living together.
Initially, there were some cultural differences and I am unable to eat her food except beef pho as I am not much of a vegetable eater. Luckily, she has some friends in Singapore and I thought that she will slowly adjust to Singapore after 2 months but I was so wrong.
So as per usual, I woke up with the smell of breakfast and I went to brush my teeth. But she was not home.
I assumed that she have gone to the supermarket and I continued working my day job from home. But after a few hours, I called her and the phone was off. Then I realised that there was a paper in the kitchen with the word “Sorry”.
I opened Facebook and contacted my wife’s friend who is also a Vietnamese bride.
She replied to me in a voice message in Mandarin saying “She needs time, She says you are too old she is very difficult with me”
I started to get worried and I called the bride agency but they told me that there was nothing they can do.
This is when I started to recall that all the smiles she had with me were quite fake…
She is an adult and she is not missing and there is nothing much I could do. I tried to contact her friend to get her back but my wife simply refused.
After 3 months I filed for an annulment of the marriage, really burn money…