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LaPiranha
Joined 2015
Posts: 1345

6 years ago

I love you, Honest I do.

6 years ago

Whilst many Colombian ladies are perfectly genuine, nice, pretty, sexy too, and they can make good life partners/wives, there are also some who see Gringos as their own personal cash dispenser. After all, Gringos are rich. Well, to a Colombian, they are, when you consider most are on the minimum wage of about 250 bucks a month, working 60 hour weeks, and sometimes 7 days a week).

Below are some tactics which I and also many others have encountered in our time here,

First time you meet, they are all over you, "I love you," etc etc. On the second date, she's sad "I lost my job, and if I can't pay my rent, I'll be out on the street with nowhere to live". Tugs at the heart strings, especially when she has a little child.

There are many variations of this, "My sister needs an operation, or she may die. We can't afford health insurance, and I love her so much, she is the only person in the world that I have" .

She takes you to a shopping mall, and drools over something she loves. Looks at you with puppy dog eyes, and she has even trained for many years to bring tears to her eyes just at the right moment. You'll feel so good buying it for her. But after you've gone home, she takes it back to the shop for a refund.

She needs to go shopping for a new bed. She finds one she likes, but when she gets to the checkout, she suddenly realizes she doesn't have any money. If you're hard enough to ignore this, or pretend you don't understand, she will then pull out her credit card, which she didn't know she had in her purse. Guess what? Its declined. She looks at you ...... Seriously, who goes shopping with no money, and a credit card that's useless? If you don't smell a rat here, there's no hope for you, haha.

Its her child's birthday, and she can't afford a present. You are the knight in shining armour, and come to her rescue with an offer to help with the present. Guess what? Its the latest iphone costing 4 million pesos.

The first night making love should be a really special occasion, (she says), so you book a holiday somewhere nice ........ but she is embarrassed that her night clothes are old. This actually happened to me ... so I said ok, order a nice sexy baby doll nighty. She did, and the total bill for clothes came to over 3 million pesos. (I dumped her on the spot, and took another girl on the holiday to save wasting it, haha.

Ok, you may not believe that your lady is like that, and of course, its possible she really is a nice person, who is only in it for love .... (or a visa), but there are many guys who do get caught.

After you get back home, after a lovely time, you get a call. She's pregnant. Be sure its true, and if it is true, get a test. Many girls say the same to about 20 blokes, who all send her maintenance for the same baby. And sometimes, the baby doesn't even exist, and some guys have paid maintenance for the whole 18 years until its an adult.

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