To anyone who has ordered a mail-order bride, what was it like and what happened?

My friend Richard has a mail-order bride from the Philippines.

He's a scruffy redneck long-haul trucker from West Virginia.

She's tiny, slender, and ten years his junior.

At first, she cooked, cleaned, and kept his bed warm, but after a few years, she told him she wanted an education.

He put in a ton of overtime and saved

up enough to put her through college. She's a physician's assistant now and makes more money than he

ever has. But she still makes him dinner and makes a point of always being waiting at the door when he

gets back from a long haul. They've been together for 20 years now and it's a joy to see them together.

So on paper, I don't really

like the idea of mail order bride stuff. I don't really like the idea of any opening of a

market that relies solely on a specific demographic, like women and stuff like that. Take the

thing with surrogacy nowadays, where like a woman will have a baby for someone else to have a child and I believe

someone proposed that women in vegetative states should be used to be a repository for other

people's children and that just sounds like some horrible dystopian world but I digress

this actually sounds like a nice mutually beneficial relationship. He paid for her to come

to the country and everything. He gives her a place to stay. He works. She cooks. She cleans. And then she said,

I want an education. And he respects her enough that he's like, yes, I will pay for you to have an

education and you can do what you want. That just sounds nice. Not going to lie, this doesn't sound bad at all. But I am 100% certain that things are going to get messed up

as I read through these stories. One of my uncles, who is Filipino, convinced one of his white

co-workers to marry his 28-year-old niece who was still living in the Philippines at the time.

The guy was at least 20 years older than her. The relationship

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