Green Card Marriage Confessions

Tales of Taboo

Ali Weiss

Society & Culture

4.8 • 725 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

I open this week's episode with my own candid confessions about the challenges of my former long-distance relationship, and how that experience + watching 90 Day Fiance led me to become uncharacteristically judgmental of people in green card relationships. I'm so grateful for our anonymous confessors, who successfully expanded and changed my mind by calling and writing in with accounts of their international engagements & marriages...and divorces :)

(8:43) We hear from Americans with partners from Africa, Belgium, El Salvador, England, France, Germany, and Scotland, as well as a Peruvian woman (formerly married to a man from Rhode Island) who grew up as an illegal immigrant from 8-18. From rehab romance to being married by a one-eyed monk, invasive interview and customs processes to successfully sneaking around the government, supportive families to immense difficulties with cultural immersion, no two stories are the same - just as how no two relationships are.

Tales of Taboo is produced and narrated by Ali Weiss. Follow Ali on Instagram & TikTok @aliweissworld. Audio production by Isabel McMahon & WTF Media. Theme song by Chris Stathopolous. Cover photo by Erika Flynn. Cover art by Kristen Montenegro. GOT A SECRET TO GET OFF YOUR CHEST? Share your own confession - or thoughts and feedback - at [email protected].

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0:00.0	I'm Ali Weiss and I'm obsessed with the people, ideas, and experiences that break the rules,
0:24.5	beat the odds, or are considered socially unacceptable. And this is season four of Tales of Taboo.
0:32.8	Each week, I gather anonymous confessions from my listeners around the world who've existed in elusive
0:39.0	subcultures, ventured down the road less traveled, made serious mistakes, and achieved extraordinary
0:45.7	victories. Some of them call my hotline, and others will send written stories for me to read.
0:52.3	These confessions are raw.
0:54.9	They're honest.
0:57.3	They're even downright shocking sometimes.
1:01.3	But they always deliver the most incredible life lessons and encourage us to consider why we're all so afraid to be different.
1:06.0	And for season four, I'm introducing a brand new twist.
1:10.4	I'm starting each episode with my own no-holds-barred,
1:13.9	on the record confession about the topic we are discussing. This week, it's the world of
1:19.6	foreign fiancés and green card marriages. Let's get into it. Usually when I'm brainstorming
1:26.2	topics for this show, at least over the course of the last
1:29.7	season, I like to choose things that I have at least some relation to or understanding of. Even if I
1:37.4	have not directly experienced it, I want to have enough familiarity to actively participate
1:42.8	in the conversation and provide some
1:45.7	sort of insight. Today's topic is something that I'm absolutely fascinated by, but pretty far
1:53.2	removed from. And that is the world of foreign fiancés and green card marriages.
2:07.6	I have really enjoyed exploring unconventional relationship dynamics this season and this idea that, sure, yes, love totally knows no bounds,
2:14.0	but only if that love exists within the parameters of what is considered socially
2:20.6	acceptable, i.e. monogamous, close in age, close in geographic location. I find it amusing
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