Dear Dr. Romance:
I met a cute guy that's a foreigner in the USA from Russia. So how do I make sure he's not looking for a visa green card marriage?
Dear Reader:
Whether or not he wants a green card isn't the real question. The real question is, does he have good character, and does he love you, and do you love him? Take your time to get to know him, and find out what makes him tick. Does he have a job here? How is he making a living? Make sure he has no other attachments.
Probably the classiest marriage proposal you've ever heard, right?
Our new column finds the best relationship fails on the web for a lesson of what not to do online.
Welcome to our new column, Relationship Fails, where we'll be showcasing the disastrous, hilarious, sad, and pathetic things people do online in the name of love. Our first installment is a doozy we found on Craigslist—you'll have to read it to believe it.
The other woman, a prenup for cohabiting and online dating Déjà Vu.
Thanking the other woman. Spoil the cuckquean and punish the other woman. Christian cartoons against infidelity. Marrying a gay man for his green card. Cohabiting needs a prenup. Leave the magic tricks to David Copperfield when flirting. The state of American Herpes. Tom Matlack on the link between fatherhood and male camaraderie. Referring to one's self as "romantically challenged." Online dating deja vu. And saying I love you the right way.
No word on whether this was before or after seeing The Proposal.
It's a plot as old as the movies themselves: girl meets boy, boy needs to be married for some reason or another, girl agrees to marry boy as a business-only arrangement, wackiness (and maybe a bit of love) ensues. Indeed, it's a crowd-pleasing formula. Who doesn't like to see power dynamics turned on their ear and love blossom from unexpected arrangements? But one can't help but wonder when watching such movies, how many of us would do the same thing if faced with similar circumstances?
"What Would You Do," ABC's new reality show, pits old friends against a new boyfriend.
Last night's episode of ABC's "What Would You Do?" featured a woman wants to marry her new boyfriend, a much younger man. The boyfriend tells her friends that he wants to get hitched for the green card, but he asks her them not to tell. What would you do in this situation?
Marry for better benefits? More than one in 20 married couples have.
It's hard to be single when certain things paying taxes, traveling, covering health care costs are cheaper for married couples than for individuals. Were I prone to conspiracy theorizing, I'd think something was up.
As SavvySugar reports, getting health insurance or paying lower premiums have served as the primary catalysts for 7% of all US marriages. Before you begin to mourn traditional unions, fear not, the article claims most of these marriages were between already coupled pairs who had otherwise decided to eschew the formality of a legal union.
