by Witness 007 12 Replies latest jw experiences
My Witness mate says he's going to go to the Philippines to find himself a Witness wife....I've seen a number of them here with much older men....sometimes they have kids and all........what you think?
P.S Don't ya hate that friggin add on here....make me look like a dirty PERV at work!!!!!!!
"caveat emptor," let the buyer beware.
It's the same old story all the time. Man wants younger flesh. Man goes where he finds that. Woman wants the position in life that a young man cannot possibly give her. Woman closes the deal. Add any nationality or religion, but it's always the same thing.
Oh, and, just for the sake of avoiding ethnic centeredness, this post could also be written as "What do you think of Western men who go after overseas brides".
Prostitutes aren't the problem, it is the 'Johns' that create the market.......
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A better question is what kind of man goes this route......... what is his motive?
Is he a controling bastard, a man who lacks confidence with local women, a man scorned and disillusioned........
(to be fair some of these women are predators too, looking for a green card and plans to move on as quickly as the law allows)
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..... on a 'positive' note....
I know some 'brides'...... lovely girls.
I have mixed feelings on this. I use to write overseas penpals and chat with Asian women many years ago. Many were marraige minded. Some were very nice. However, I never could quite get past the possibility that they are after a green card. I dated one asian girl who was in the country on a visitor's visa for two weeks. She and I hit it off but I think she was after more. I like taking things kind of slow. These girls do not wait for anything like that.
I guess results may vary.
I am sure it works for some people, but buying a wife doesn't sound like the best way to start a relationship to me.
"Desperate"...????
Zid
It's not always about a green card. I have talked to men who married foreign women and who ended up moving to their wife's country. One man was married to a younger Filipina woman who was a medical doctor. Another man moved his filipina wife to the USA, but she got homesick, so when he retired the next year they moved back to the PI and he was very happy there- He went to the hospital for a broken leg and they kept him for three whole days- his bill was less than $400. Another man was married to a Russian lady- yes, younger and he also decided to move his bride back to Russia so she could freely practice medicine. He learned Russian and bought a new Russian car for less than $5000- his retirement money went a long ways in Russia- a month of telephone service was less than $10. Since none of these women got green cards , I assume they married for other reasons- maybe even for love. I met all these guys at airports and as my wife has told me, I have the ability to get people to spill out their life's story to a stranger.
I think if I had not have been a bit apprehensive concerning their potential ulterior motives, I probably would've married one of these foreign girls. I particularly digged asian women. I guess my timing and theirs just did not agree. They prefer a bird in hand rather than two in the bush. I would've at least insisted on corresponding for a year to see if she really was sincerely interested in me as a person and not as a meal ticket to citizenship. However, none of them lasted more than a few months before they began to get pushy.
Of all penpals I ever had, only one of them would I consider marrying to this day. Ironically, she had no interest in moving to the states since she was quite happy living in the United Kingdom with her family. She was asian, muslim but later renounced that faith and became atheist. We kept it as friends as she and I both began seeing people locally and I lost touch with her back in the late 1990's.
