 Over the next decade, they continued their on-again off-again affair as Boursicot moved from posting to posting in Southeast Asia.During this period Boursicot embraced his own bisexuality, having multiple liaisons with women while also engaged in a long term relationship with a Frenchman named Thierry, with whom he one day hoped to form a family including Shi and Bertrand.Boursicot has stated that he began passing documents to Shi when the Chinese Cultural Revolution made it difficult for him to see her.