โ€˜My husband keeps disappearing to Thailandโ€™ โ€“ and I donโ€™t know why

After 50 years of marriage, Julie's husband has had enough

It sounds like a bad dream. But for one woman it is the very sad reality of her marriage. The New York Post reported how a 70 year old woman shared on UK television that after 50 years of marriage, her husband keeps disappearing to Thailand and spending โ€œhundreds of pounds there monthly.โ€

Speaking on a segment called the โ€œDear Deirdreโ€ phone-in on This Morning, the anonymous caller who went by the name โ€œJulieโ€ said her husband disappears without telling her and is tight-lipped about where the cash is going.

Husband keeps disappearing to Thailand without warning

Speaking to agony aunt Deidre Saunders, โ€œJulieโ€ said her husband never tells her when heโ€™s going to the kingdom and warned her his money wasโ€ฆ

โ€œNone of your business!โ€

Puzzled Julie, saidโ€ฆ

โ€œItโ€™s normally on a Wednesday night he goes. I just come home, thereโ€™s no note, nothing, passport, gone, clothes gone. Iโ€™m 70 nowโ€ฆI just donโ€™t know what to doโ€ฆIโ€™m thinking, how long have I got?โ€

Having zero sympathies for the man whose wife cannot, or will not, give him what he needs, โ€œDear Deirdreโ€ fumedโ€ฆ

โ€œOf course what your husband is doing is your concern and funnelling out hundreds of pounds of family income โ€“ that is terrible.โ€

โ€˜I think we know whyโ€ฆโ€™

Host Philip Schofield made no bones about it either. Schofield saidโ€ฆ

โ€œHeโ€™s got someone else. He is going to Thailand to see someone โ€“ male or female.โ€

โ€œOr several people,โ€ Deidre added.

Social media was outraged. One tweeter was frankโ€ฆ

โ€œJulie fโ€“k him off.โ€

โ€œI think we know why heโ€™s going to Thailand Julie.โ€

โ€œโ€˜It might be difficult at 70 but my God Julie, locks changed next time heโ€™s away. Heโ€™s an absolute d**k.โ€

โ€œOh, Julie ffs.โ€

There was much speculation about why Julieโ€™s husband kept disappearing to Thailand. Sara, a self-described military wife, advised Julie to see a solicitor andโ€ฆ

โ€œGet him gone.โ€

Good luck Julie. Maybe next time he goes away, heโ€™ll have the decency to stay away.

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Jon Whitman

Jon Whitman is a seasoned journalist and author who has been living and working in Asia for more than two decades. Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, Jon has been at the forefront of some of the most important stories coming out of China in the past decade. After a long and successful career in East sia, Jon is now semi-retired and living in the Outer Hebrides. He continues to write and is an avid traveller and photographer, documenting his experiences across the world.

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