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Originally Posted by SugahBritches
No one has mentioned this yet, but think of the Mail Order Brides back in the day. I bet that was scary! I mean sometimes you didn't even have that many letters to go on what you might or might not be getting into. But those women either didn't have another solution or were very adventurous!  |
Yup, it still happens, perhaps now more than ever in history... women from Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe/Russia, among other desperate places, get "ordered" on a daily basis and shipped off to unknown men in unknown circumstances. Many of them end up in abusive circumstances, though I'm quite sure that many others do find a way to make themselves happy in their new life, language, and country. I do think it's more about having no other solution out of poverty, rather than a taste for adventure... but that's my bias (it's my line of work... not human trafficking, but studying it).
That said, I full agree with Prince here...
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Originally Posted by Prince
Online relationships, or any long distance ones, are tougher than you may think. Some have the stomach or the heart for it, some don't.
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What's interesting is that I don't think one can predict who has the stomach for something like this. I never, ever intended to go thorugh any period of time in a long-distance relationship... I thought those people were crazy. And yet, here we are, after going on two years of middle-distance (3 hours' drive) and getting married in the thick of it. One finds one's guts as one goes along, I suppose.
Takes all types of relationships to make the world spin. If people can allow online relationships to morph into real ones, despite the distance, god bless 'em. If not, I don't blame them one bit. None of it is easy, after the initial attraction... it just takes work.