How Mail Order Marriages Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Everybody knows mail order marriages are at best a last resort for jerks looking to boss a foreign spouse around or, at worst, a front for human trafficking. Or are they? Yes and no. Mail order marriage comes with nuance and a surprisingly long history.

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0:31.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too.
0:46.2	And this is Stuff You Should Know about mail order matches.
0:53.0	The murky waters.
0:55.0	Yeah, really.
0:57.0	Yeah, this is one of those where we researched and researched and read and read.
1:03.7	I think it's one of those deals for me that's like, and this is just my opening statement.
1:11.3	Okay.
1:12.3	Where it can be a positive thing like a dating service in some ways.
1:21.3	But there is certainly a darker side to the whole situation.
1:27.2	I already know how you feel about it and I feel like it's coming through clearly.
1:30.8	Yeah, I mean, it's just it's very, it's one of those really murky things where sometimes
1:35.9	you hear these really great stories about people that do find or looking for love and
1:40.3	find love with someone from another country and it works out for everybody.
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