“I have a feeling this is going to turn into the usual bash-women thread that has grown so popular on FR with all the bitter, divorced guys chiming in, lol.”
You miss the point...it’s not just people who have been screwed over, it’s the effect that they have on others who have not been screwed over. I’ve been married for over 25 years (to the same person, although opposite sex) - only marriage for either of us. The difference is that she wasn’t born in this country.
But I paid a lot of attention to men getting screwed over (even 25 years ago), so made a point to never marry an American girl...it paid off.
Others, often, are not attracted to women from countries where marriages aren’t viewed as disposable (including many of my friends), so they end up never getting married...again, because they understand the huge risks in marrying an American Woman.
>>>But I paid a lot of attention to men getting screwed over (even 25 years ago), so made a point to never marry an American girl...it paid off.<<<
Been there, done that both ways. My American feminist wife could be extremely mean and cruel. She had more interest in her career than being a good wife or mother. In other words, I totally failed in securing a good wife. When she got bored of her life and blamed me for it, I ended up marrying a woman abroad. She came from a poor family/country. She’s hard working, grateful for the little things and conservative in the way an American woman would have been prior to The Pill being invented.
If a man wants a woman who will be happy being a wife and raising his children, he should at least look abroad and see what the global market of women has to offer. Hint, prettier and more willing to accept gender old fashioned gender roles.
I am thankful, blessed, fortunate that I married an American man like my husband. I am thankful, blessed, fortunate that one of my daughters is marrying an American man this month and hope my three other daughters marry American men. I just pray those men aren’t like many on this thread. But, I know they won’t be because I raised great kids. They’ve stayed away from those kind of men and will continue to do so.