When a Vietnamese woman says "I love you," she really means "I want you." She really does. Well, that is the first part of the sentence. The sentence continues, "I want you... to buy me a house, a car, a ..." It has taken a number of years for me to make this translation, and many men here never do. They think "I love you" in Vietnamese is the same as "I love you" in English. If only they studied the language better.
An American friend of mine, in his early 60's, fell in love again recently with a 22 year-old. She offered to have his baby, her way of saying I love you, if he first bought her a house, a car, and an iPhone. Not necessarily in that order. He told me he is in love. I said he is in lust and needs to have his head examined.
Another good friend of mine, old enough to be collecting social security for a few years, likes to date girls (note: girls, not women) in their 20's. He is always disappointed when after eagerly taking up his dinner invitation they refuse his romantic advances. Eventually he will find one willing, but, he will have to pay.
In Vietnam when a women says she loves you what that really means is that she has evaluated you and decided that you probably have enough money to buy her the house, the car, the iPhone, you probably won't hit her if you get angry, you probably won't have a girlfriend on the side, and you aren't all that old, ugly, and fat.
Of course, when a foreign man says he loves a Vietnamese woman, he really means it. Well, he loves her body. Who wouldn't. 20 year-old Asian women are not hard to love. He doesn't love her mind, because of the language barrier you really have no idea what is going on in her head. And I don't think he enjoys going out to dinner with her. You see this all the time, the guy is looking at the girl because he is bored out of his mind, hoping she will say something. The girl is looking at her iPhone, hoping some one will text her because she is bored out of her mind.
It's a shame men have testicles. Wouldn't life be easier for us men if we had to turn them in after so many years. Okay boys, you've had your fun, time to go out to pasture. Wow, we could actually live our lives guided by the head that sits on top of our neck.
For me, I'm not complaining. I find all this one more of life's interesting experiments. I wonder what will happen next. It gives us guys something to talk about. Imagine how dull and boring life would be if we men didn't do the stupid things we do. Shit, we'd just sit around discussing sports. The games women involve us in are so much more interesting.
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