Citizenship application fees and paperwork ($1.2k+)
Grocery expenses and transient living expenses
Potential cost
University tuition (likely)
Medical bills (unlikely)
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Monetary gains
Shared housing expenses (e.g., rent)
Shared grocery expenses
Other gains
Time and effort lost in the dating game: not having to date around (most partners want children, so clearly defining that upfront)
Shared cooking of meals (saves time to interleave him/her cooking or just a better and more fun use of time cooking together)
Social aspect for single isolated people in rural areas
Long-term personal gains:
Higher paying shared income
E.g., 40k (net) annually and roughly 1.5M (net) lifetime
Short and long-term altruistic gains:
Remittance to their family (potentially)
E2G of combined income
Conclusion
It may depend on the man or woman looking for their respective life partner. After all, they can divorce and separate just like traditional couples. Although, it would make sense for Western paired international couples to have a significantly lower divorce rate.
Since asking this question, I’ve seen the huge stigma associated with international marriages. It’s clear why international couples cover up how they met. For the man seeking a wife, people assume something is wrong with him: Why not local women?
Therein lies the problem with traditional dating. Most people, the status quo, want to own a nice car, a big house, fill it with bab(ies) and golden retriever from a puppy mill. What about app dating, match.com, chemistry.com, etc—Don’t they solve the not wanting children dilemma?
Online dating is also a wash unless one lives in a populous city. And even if one eventually gets lucky with a catch, that doesn’t preclude the enormous time and effort used up finding them. Contemporary dating is just highly inefficient.
The worst case scenario of an international marriage is helping them through their university education, and them high tailing it outta there once they attain citizenship. The worse case of a traditional marriage is basically the same thing except with the added negative of playing the dating game.
Therefore, an international marriage could be a worthwhile endeavor.
Initial costs
Traveling to see them in their country ($1k+)
Citizenship application fees and paperwork ($1.2k+)
Grocery expenses and transient living expenses
Potential cost
University tuition (likely)
Medical bills (unlikely)
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Monetary gains
Shared housing expenses (e.g., rent)
Shared grocery expenses
Other gains
Time and effort lost in the dating game: not having to date around (most partners want children, so clearly defining that upfront)
Shared cooking of meals (saves time to interleave him/her cooking or just a better and more fun use of time cooking together)
Social aspect for single isolated people in rural areas
Long-term personal gains:
Higher paying shared income
E.g., 40k (net) annually and roughly 1.5M (net) lifetime
Short and long-term altruistic gains:
Remittance to their family (potentially)
E2G of combined income
Conclusion
It may depend on the man or woman looking for their respective life partner. After all, they can divorce and separate just like traditional couples. Although, it would make sense for Western paired international couples to have a significantly lower divorce rate.
Since asking this question, I’ve seen the huge stigma associated with international marriages. It’s clear why international couples cover up how they met. For the man seeking a wife, people assume something is wrong with him: Why not local women?
Therein lies the problem with traditional dating. Most people, the status quo, want to own a nice car, a big house, fill it with bab(ies) and golden retriever from a puppy mill. What about app dating, match.com, chemistry.com, etc—Don’t they solve the not wanting children dilemma?
Online dating is also a wash unless one lives in a populous city. And even if one eventually gets lucky with a catch, that doesn’t preclude the enormous time and effort used up finding them. Contemporary dating is just highly inefficient.
The worst case scenario of an international marriage is helping them through their university education, and them high tailing it outta there once they attain citizenship. The worse case of a traditional marriage is basically the same thing except with the added negative of playing the dating game.
Therefore, an international marriage could be a worthwhile endeavor.