"my mom and him married (they did really love each other, and please discard the marrying for a green card thing, that is a movie cliche for the most part).
There are many people on FR that are surely literate enough to go to this site and read a few rules and prices and leave those myths behind.
The link is to a gif image, evidently not linked to the site.
In the 80's lot's of people claimed marriage to acquire status; I worked on a construction job in Lower East Side NYC and one of the guys had evidently hired himself out as a husband to a girl seeking status.
I'm just asking a question here. What's changed?