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Would you go abroad to look for a potential partner?

Many of my single American friends have started dating women in Latin America and plan to bring them over for marriage eventually. I’m going to my friend’s wedding this weekend that did exactly that. They met at a speed dating event in Colombia. Is this a trend??

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It's one thing to intentionally and specifically go looking abroad for a spouse. I often hear the incel types announced how horrid "American women" are, as if they were a homgenous group, and how they would only couple with foreign women.

People have agency. A salut! It's a quid pro quo that's as old as humanity. Exchanging sex and home making for financial security and material things. I'm sure my own ancestors did the same, can't judge it. I hope people are happy.

But it's a dangerous prospect. I have known people who have married "foreign brides" only to get dread social diseases, have them disappear and ghost them, or more often, to find themselves in a pickle because those women came from cultures where the homemaker and matriarch wasn't a demure little thing, but a queen with a long sword and a whip. You thought American women were bad? HAHAHAHAHAHA

The flip side is that it really is a global world. The internet and travel have made the world small. I met my partner here, through her words. I couldn't help falling for her because of who she was. Life circumstances radically changed and I am able to have a relationship with her. She just happens to be Australian. How awesome is that?