I'm single and not looking to mingle... still, I respect your culture and am curious about it. No use asking for the same;) Everybody has baggage and a life before meeting someone else. Feel free to check yours at the door or bringing them in the conversation if you feel this can be helpful in a person to person interaction.
The following are interesting statistics I found when reading articles on another website ( for the record, I don't have a subscription there, it sounds way too meat-marketing for me. )
In Thailand, family is important, and even when referring to aunts, uncles and cousins, their terminology refers to the side of the family concerned and to the ages of the respective relatives. Courtship and the marriage ceremony will also be strange to Canadian men, and marrying a Thai woman is not the same as marrying a western woman in a western ceremony.
By choosing professional young Thai women, Canadian men are inadvertently making sure that their choice of partner is less likely to be one of the minority that will take advantage of them.
There are many customs involved in Thai marriages, such as that the approval of the parents of both bride