Concerned about BF who is travelling. No contact and hasn’t been on his phone

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He was travelling with friends but they’ve left to go somewhere else and he’s stayed in Thailand. No contact with isn’t normal and Today it’s been 21 hours since he was last active on any social media’s. Would you be worried not sure what to do?

Imagine living with such cynicism I am so glad I'm not you.

I travelled both solo and in small groups when I was younger in 2017. Splitting up to do your own thing or merge with another group is incredibly common. OP I would put money on him losing his phone or having it stolen. Hope you hear from him soon

OP I hope everything is ok 🤞

@Mookie81 ! ! thanks - you can be my wingman any time ! x

the sanctimony is strong with this one …

and ring around all the hospitals whilst your phone is still hot

It's been less than a day. I find your reaction to be very over the top.

Also , Internet is very different in Thailand.

Wifi/ Internet coverage can be very bad in some areas in Thailand. I've been there.

Of course he's not going to be posting on social media as much as he does when he is in the UK

Any update op?

Any news?

Yes, come on, OP,!

Let us know what happened!

What was his excuse?! 😂

I went to Thailand with a male friend and he's not especially shy, but the sex workers made him very uncomfortable as they were full on and pushy and... lairy really. He had his genitals grabbed by one lady in the street. He was single but spent his holiday trying desperately to avoid them. I would expect the majority of the men there backpacking probably feel the same.

I wouldn't worry yet, I was out of service in the hills for a few days, and when scuba diving or on boat trips I'd leave my phone in my room for the day.

I'm hoping the OP will update us.

A lovely colleague went missing in Indonesia in the 1980s. I still think about it. Hope OP's boyfriend is safe and well.

Just to update

He did get back in touch eventually and it was a phone signal issue apparently. I’m starting to doubt that things will be the same though after some of these posts on here I am quite worried.

His mates have also posted lots of photos on instagram and it looks like they’ve met various groups of girls there and have been on the beach with them and on boats etc. I do trust him but now having doubts having read some of the posts here

I do know they have also been in the Moulin Rouge in Phuket

Apparently he’s split up from mates as they wanted to stay where all the night life is and he’s gone exploring more

A significant proportion of Mumsnetters love to be dramatic and to think the worst of any man. None of those posters knows your boyfriend, and I suspect they know very little about Thailand.

Please, please don't let these people and their posts affect your relationship.

Sounds perfectly sensible and reasonable to me. And when you start exploring you start losing phone connection.

I really wouldn't take notice of all the doom and gloom posters.

They love to wallow in misery and doom and inflict it on others.

Good, hope he's enjoying it.

Glad he is safe. I hope he is enjoying exploring. Exploring is the main part of travel in my opinion.

There's a lot of people here that seem to love spreading fear and encouraging drama. If you trust him then carry on until you have reason not to.

Mate, none of the posters trying to scare you on here have ever been to Thailand. They don't go anywhere, maybe Cornwall at a fucking push.

He's backpacking with his mates, it's common to separate and want to do different things.

Why on earth would bunking up with some woman mean he suddenly stops looking at his social media? 🤣 obviously just got no signal.

Sounds to me as though he got there and rapidly found out that his mates' idea of a holiday wasn't the same as his. So he has rather sensibly parted company with them and gone off on his own.

This. Faaar too soon to be stressing just let him get on and don't worry for at least 72 hours. He will b fine