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SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

Does your wife ever try to pimp you out to her friends for English conversations?

How do you deal with that?

I work 12, sometimes 14 hours a day at an R&D center and I value my time and my weekends...lately, (on weekends) my K-wife of 8.5 years has asked me to come along with her to hang out and have coffee with her girlfriends, to which I've flat out refused. She pouts, I feel guilty, but I still don't go. She brings me home a cool present from the Ralph Lauren store (wallet, dress shirt..etc) and I then I really feel guilty.

Am I being pimped out? What would you do?

mikowee · Joined: 03 Aug 2006

Buy her a better present. Guilt gone.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Nope, she thinks it's creepy and refuses to.

Newbie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Never to her friends, but seems like a weekly occurence that she has a new private for me. She must not like having me around the house.

And her aunts love to pimp me out to their children... bloody hell.

Xerxes · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:19 am Post subject:

I was the neighborhood beitch to all manner of snot-nosed, pimple-faced teen or toddler.

She hasn't done that in a long while though, thank Gawd!

that guy · Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Location: long gone

Nope, her friends think I'm creepy and refuses to.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

mmmmm............Is this a frequent thing? Do you feel like you're being used as an English practice punch-bag when you do go to these things?

Maybe wifey just wants you to socialise more......

Actually, my wife tends to keep her friends to herself because she likes to have her 'Korean time'. I'm more than happy to go along with that! Laughing

None of her friends drink!!! They're all 30-something 'well-being' ajumma's. So, not much in it for me then.

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

robot · Joined: 07 Mar 2006

when i feel like i am being used for my english skillz -- i mean when it's blatant and irritating - i just switch to korean.

then the other people can be on the receiving end of feeling used.

moreso this is for strangers, though -- not close friends.

SeoulShakin · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

Perhaps, at least once, you should let down your guard and go with her. She may have just thought that since she never invites you along, you should come. Or perhaps her friends asked why she never invites you along. Regardless, the only way you'll find out if that is the motive, is if you go at least once. If she just genuinely wants you to hang out, that's cool. If you feel like you're being pimped out, afterwards you can tell her how you feel, and that you don't appreciate being asked to do such things in your spare time.

Smile

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

My wife resents it if people ask her.

She wouldn't bother me with it.

Homer · Guest

She never did that...but some of her friends to speak to me in English. That does not really bug me.

I also teach my nieces English once a week and I quite enjoy that.

But, my wife never does "pimp" me out.... Laughing

lowpo · Joined: 01 Mar 2007

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

My wife is kind of the opposite. She gets angry when people try to use me to get free English lessons.

She also hates it when people shout 'hello' to me on the street. At first she said I was overreacting, but now she agrees with me.

Saxiif · Joined: 15 May 2003 Location: Seongnam

Girls my wife runs into keep on expecting us to set them up with another whitey. Then hilarity ensues...