[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I've heard plenty of horror stories (and even seen a few first hand, including my uncle) of guys marrying girls from Eastern Europe and Asia, who divorced them as soon as they could do so without having to leave the US. US citizenship and in some cases a chump paying alimony -- win-win.

There's no magic pill that will guarantee a happy marriage, unfortunately. It's easy to fall for the beguiling femininity that many foreign girls possess, which is somewhat of a forgotten skill in the US, but they can just as much of an agenda as anyone, and their situation might cause them to be more ruthless than most.

I think the most important thing is to find someone who is absolutely, 100% on the same page religiously and morally, and at least 75% on the same page politically, and go from there. If emotional love is also there, that's a plus.

Caveat, I'm under 30 and never been married.

[alexander_busek]

"Fate is fully inexorable!" - My own translation: "Der Rat [ræd = Rat] Gottes ist unerforschlich."

I think the most important thing is to find someone who is absolutely, 100% on the same page religiously and morally, and at least 75% on the same page politically, and go from there.

When we married, my wife was a fanatical anti-communist (of the "let's go lob some molotov cocktails at the dirty bastards" variety), but otherwise an admirer of some of the lower-hanging fruit of the Democratic Party.

After eight years of Obama (and reading all of Ayn Rand's works), she is a staunch Conservative (as I am).

Regards,

[grey_whiskers]

I've been married over 30 years.

The standards as far as available women are putting on offer, have dropped off staggeringly during that time: I made it just before the door slammed shut, apparently.