I know some of us on here are hitched to foreign born gals, and my guess is there may be some guys on here thinking about it, or have thought about it from time to time.

So here is my experience:

My first wife was from Mexico City. Long story, but she came to visit her uncle who lived nearby and I ended up giving her rides to english classes in town, eventually marrying her (and providing her citizenship). Could never wash the "city" out of her though and we were not a good fit, me being a country boy who hates cities, her a city girl who didn't like the country. We had one kid who is now 30.

Just as things were about kaput in our marriage and a divorce was in the works I was introduced to a Colombian gal who was living in North Carolina. We corresponded for awhile and then decided to meet in a neutral site: Costa Rica. We hit it off and were married about a year later. She was also a city gal but took to country living and has been a good farm-wife and partner. We have been together/married for 25 years now. It helped that I spoke (speak) fluent Spanish and had some cultural savvy under my belt about Latinas (having lived in Ecuador and Costa Rica for a total of three years). Still, you almost never fully become "culturally literate" to a culture you were not born into.

I have had to bend a little on some things to get along, but it's all good. Some of the cultural differences actually put a smile on my face....like the time her very cute 19 year old niece came to visit. When we got her back home from the airport my wife proudly claimed "look what a hot body my niece has, look at her cute derriere"! To which I expected the niece to be at the very least... extremely upset! Nope, she twirled around showing off her tight blue jeans and laughing! I was kind of shocked. LOL

All in all, I would be very cautious entering into a union like this. You've got a lot working against it, and if you don't have the ability to be flexible on some things it almost certainly will end poorly.

Your thoughts? Experiences?

…. What you got against white women lol

The new term for men who go overseas looking for wives is "Passport Bros".

My Costa Rican bride has put up with me for nearly 40 years now, and that ain’t easy!

Clearly, some lack the charisma and charm to court inside their own ethnicity.

Clearly, some lack the charisma and charm to court inside their own ethnicity.

Hay man not my fault I don't like sagging my pants

Clearly, some lack the charisma and charm to court inside their own ethnicity.

Or alternately, some of us are just colorblind.

Sometimes it is pretty darn hard to find a gal worthy of a second look within your own ethnicity! And my wife had zero desire to travel to the USA, leave her extended family, or gain citizenship. But I managed to convince her to put that aside and move to Alaska of all places!