A friend of mine who has been living in pop for over 40 yrs. told me yrs. ago "never underestimate the cunningness of Dominicans". I wish I had listened?
This is true to an extent, but I highly doubt people can be so transparently duplicitous without it going unnoticed. People overrate a Dominican's cunning when the truth lies in how their mates are so willing to get duped.
Some guys and gals who date the types of Dominicans who engage in this type of behavior exibit more childish thinking than their Dominican mates, becoming overconfident in their abilities to ascertain what's staring them in the face. They believe in the greeting card notion of love that does not exist in Dominican society.
If a woman breaks up with someone to marry another man and then offers her services for $100 a pop, this did not come out of nowhere. She had this in her the whole time. I've spoken about this before-I dated a woman who wound up dancing on a pole in a quote/unquote "gentleman's club".
Way before the breakup, I noticed the flaws in her personality (a strange but all-too-common mix of vanity and insecurity) that I knew I could not reconcile but put up with for the obvious reasons. I knew the whole time what I was dealing with, and when it became too much, I left. So when I found out what she was doing, it did not surprise me in the least.
What I managed to avoid overrode any potential benefits if I had stayed. There is a reason I say to guys when they meet a girl they like in the DR-"three days tops", one or two trips tops". After that, go meet someone else, and definitely do not spend your whole trip with the same woman. The law of diminishing returns becomes more pronounced the more time you spend with the same chica, whether you're dating them as a tourist or as an expat.
If you can maintain a relationship with this type of Dominican without letting yourself get played, keeping your eyes open the whole time, then maybe. But like I said, it becomes the law of diminishing returns. The Dominican mentality is to squeeze ten dollars out of every nickel they put into a relationship. After a while, that amount goes from a nickel to zero, and your end rises exponentially. If you refuse to see the avalanche coming, don't get upset when you wind up buried in heartbreak and shattered expectations.