Darkest Mysteries Online — The Strange and Unusual Podcast 2026
What Was It Like Meeting Your Mail Order Bride?
12 Oct 2022
Chapter 1: What was it like for your great grandmother as a mail order bride?
To anyone who has ordered a mail order bride, what was it like and what happened? My great grandmother was a mail order bride. A man in central Louisiana had been widowed and wanted someone to raise his kids and help out on the farm. This was 1935-ish. My great grandmother saw the ad in Kentucky and said she'd do it.
However, she neglected to tell him she'd be bringing four kids with her, I guess when she got here. The guy was oh well. That's cool and allowed her and the kids to stay. My grandmother was the only one to stay down here. Though, the other kids went back to Ki-Indiana when they were old enough. More hands for the farm work. Bonus. A mail order husband's a thing, you know, for a friend.
Guys, I'm 24. Hopefully I have a few years left before I need to consider ordering my husband off the internet.
Chapter 2: What challenges did the man in Louisiana face with his mail order bride?
If you are a white woman, I know some people with questionable English and willing to settle. I think an old high school buddy of mine did this. Went off to college on the west coast. Came back with a Thai wife who barely spoke any English. He spoke a bit of Thai. But not much. They were together for about 3 years. Then she just up and disappeared one morning. Leaving their son behind.
Not sure what happened to her. He claimed she went back to see her family. We joke that he killed her. He may have killed her though. I guess he mailed her back. This weird, creepy friend of a friend married one. He was a dessert storm vet with PTSD and maybe mild autism. We used to go shooting with him sometimes because we were extremely bad at making life decisions.
Once, he showed up at my friend's house and no one was home, so he let himself in and sat quietly in the living room with the lights off for several hours until we got back. gave us a heck of a scare. Anyhow, he met this stunning Ukrainian woman on one of those mail order bride sites and sort of dropped off the map.
A couple years later I ran into him at a thrift store and he told me about how they're both bounty hunters now. A couple years later I ran into him at a thrift store and he told me about how they're both bounty hunters now. I'd watch that movie. One of my mom's friends married a mail order bride from the Philippines about 10 years ago.
I spent new years at their house 2 years ago and let me tell you it's even creepier in person than you ever dreamed it could be. He's approaching 80 by now and she's mid 30s. He just hangs off of her, insisting on PDA at every opportunity. I think she's remarkably well adjusted given the circumstance.
Over the years she's saved enough money to bring over several family members, which I'm sure is some welcome solace. Plus he's 80, so hopefully she'll get something after he dies. I had a friend of a friend who did it. He was an unappealing neckbeard with a terrible personality.
He got a truly gorgeous Vietnamese girl, threw some bride to order agency, who was really sweet and seriously, a catch. The girl left him as soon as she legally could, having gained citizenship. Honestly I think the deal worked out really well for both them. I also think if the guy was worthy of her, or even just you know, a sweet guy, she would have stayed.
My friend's dad got one and she flew back a week after she got to the states. I always thought he was creepy. But he must have been a maniac for her to voluntarily go back to Thailand after a week. A limerick for ya. And NBSP. There once was a mail order bride. Who bailed on her marriage. And tried. Incredibly fat.
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Chapter 3: How did the experience of a friend marrying a Thai woman unfold?
With a fetish for scat. A husband she could not abide. My uncle lives on a farm. The neighbor, in his 60s, married some Japanese 28 year old. She's the ultimate trophy mail order bride. When she moved into his house it was a little run down, standard single male behavior. She took his truck into the town library every day to use the internet, get this, to learn home improvement from YouTube.
She installed a huge deck and replaced all the roofing on his wool shed, as it leaked.
pest control is common on australian farms we were out one night and shot a few kangaroos she gets out of the truck and walks over to the dead carcass drops to her knees like reciting a prayer then pulls out a knife and starts surgically cutting up the animal putting what's edible for the dogs in one pile and what's not in another last time i was at my uncle's farm she was learning generator maintenance as the power goes off every few months that girl is metal
I used to work retail with a Filipino woman who was a mail order bride. She was a tiny little thing, around 35 years old, and her husband was a very large, stocky white man around 50-55. I thought it was very weird when she first told me, but when I met him and saw them together, It actually seemed like a nice fit. He was always coming into the store to bring her lunch or to buy her things.
And pick her up from work on his motor scooter. It was pretty cute watching them ride it together. It seemed like he really enjoyed spoiling her. And when she talked about him, she seemed very much in love with him. It didn't appear that he was particularly wealthy or anything. But he treated her very well and they seemed very happy.
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Chapter 4: What are the surprising outcomes of relationships with mail order brides?
Just before I left that job, she had just became pregnant with their first child. Whoa, that's a surprisingly happier story than expected. I knew a guy who owned his own business that got one. He got crushed by a skid steer and she now owns the business and has a new husband closer to her age. 1. He was killed. 2. Ran over his lower abdomen. 3.
There was an investigation however he was alone and she had an alibi that was backed up by the guy that she is currently with. 4. A skid steer is also commonly known as a skid loader or bobcat. Google is your friend. Well that was a roller coaster of emotion. My brother up and went to Russia a few years back to visit a girl he had met online.
Only stayed about 4 days which made it an expensive and short visit. But probably a good idea if you're not sure what's going to happen when you actually meet. Several months later she came to visit us and surprise. They're engaged. My mom was not expecting this. I was. You don't bring over a girl from another country and introduce her to your family because you're just friends.
They spent the next couple months getting the paperwork organized and then she moves to the US and then two months later they got married. Had their buddy officiate at her pretty little ceremony at the lake. Just immediate family. She and my brother are around the same age and have similar interests and they seem really happy together. Sis-in-law is going to school and I now have a niece.
Maybe it was mail order. Maybe they stumbled across each other in Reddit. Don't know. Don't really care. They're happy and that's all that matters. I doubt he's a redditor. So here's my dad's friend's story as my dad tells it and as I've observed. She's Asian and he paid for her to go to school to become a pharmacist and they live in a newly built house and raise chickens.
She was very adamant about the chickens. That was quite a story. My landlord senior year had a mail order bride. She spoke zero English but he just had her kind of follow him everywhere. Helped his rich guy vibe.
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Chapter 5: What unique stories emerge from various mail order bride experiences?
He also had cameras in our apartment. He knew about every guy I'd had over and told my parents who told me. They already knew from me so it was a power play by him. Threatened a lawsuit and got the heck out. Wow that was a wild ride. Landlord has mail order bride. 2. Landlord has freaking cameras in my apartment and calls my parents regarding my exploits in bed.
Friend growing up suddenly got a Russian older brother. I found out when I was older that his stepmom was a mail order bride. Something was really off about the dad, but the stepmom and stepson were very kind. Found out the dad was beating the stepmom and got her legal help. Son ended up in jail for physically shaming and no idea what happened to the dad, but I know there was a restraining order.
I saw that Lifetime movie. My sister's father has a mail order bride from China. She was a divorcee with a 17 year old son. I only got to meet her once but she was really nice and cooked the most amazing food. Last year my sister's dad finally started taking Chinese language classes as a surprise and found out that her cute nickname for him was Fat American.
A patient at my uncle chiropractic clinic is 75+, morbidly obese, and uses a power scooter. One day he scooted into the building with an extremely attractive Filipino girl, early 20s, riding on his lap. She was a mail order bride. The old guy was pretty wealthy, so I've always imagined swooping in after he dies. 75+, morbidly obese, and uses a power scooter.
She's earned that money as far as I'm concerned. A friend married a Russian mail order bride. They're still together 10 years later with 3 kids. So I guess that's going well enough. My dad's coworker got one from Vietnam. He went on a love vacation or whatever they call it. They got married shortly thereafter and she moved to the US.
Then, after 3 months in the US, she called the cops on him, saying he was abusing her. He got kicked out of his own house, she divorced him, and he lost a bunch of assets to her. A couple years later, I found out he married another one from a different country, thinking he'd have better luck. IDK what happened with that one for sure but I know it didn't last either.
I remember reading on a message board about a hunnamooning couple seeing this American guy on a romantic date with a local woman. The next night, it was a different woman, there might have been a third woman, he was basically auditioning two or three potential brides, like The Bachelor without a camera crew. Buckle up. This one's weird. Grandfather had a mail order bride from the Philippines.
They got married within a couple of weeks. She made us popsicles made from guacamole. We got Emma dog named Sasha. She thought we said Tasha and now it's name is Tasha. Married like 2 years. She took the dog's husband and daughter. Pretty boy and pretty girl. And fled the state after she got her driver's license. IDK how my grandfather got the dog's back. The dog's husband. What?
I used to work filling propane tanks. I was filling one for this Russian lady one day and she looks at me. Hum are you single? No. Why? Too bad I have friend in Russia perfect for you. You're pretty sure she was going to try and hook me up with a mail order bride. Or someone trying to get their green card. Little did you know the friend in Russia sold propane accessories.
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Chapter 6: How do cultural differences impact mail order marriages?
her financial situation improved as well as that of her family back home she has a beautiful child and she married into a pretty nice family for my uncle's part he has a wife and daughter who care about him and help him navigate the world i adore her mostly because she was so good to my grandmother uncle's mom she visited her all the time called her her mom made sure her daughter she's my cousin even though she's younger than my own kids had a solid relationship with grandma
All in all, I think my uncle seriously lucked out by meeting such a great bride. ETA. Some have taken issue with my use of bride in quotes. It was simply short for mail order bride, which is literally what this entire thread is about. I was not slighting my awesome aunt. She's a 100% real wife. I'm sorry the context, for a handful of people, was not obvious. I'm the mail order bride.
Well, sort of. More like mail order husband. I met two Korean women on Tinder plus a year ago. We started chatting and really hit it off. After a month or so, she offered to fly me to Korea for a week in order to get to know me better. I've been back to see her about 7 times now. We're totally in love and I'm planning to move there next year. She's 12 years older than I am.
Has two kids from her previous marriage and makes a lot more than I do. She speaks English fluently, but I'm learning Korean. I want to be a mail order husband now. I started talking to a Thai woman online a few years ago when I was 22.
I didn't really have too much going on in my life at the time and because at that time I had the means to do so, I decided to go over and see her just about a month after being in a pretty constant flow of communication over the internet. As the time for me to leave the United States grew closer, I started to notice that she seemed a little different almost nervous, even through emails.
Keep in mind I have never skyped this woman or anything like that.
So I fly over to finally meet who I've been talking to this whole time and I can't find her anywhere However, who I did manage to find was a man one year younger than me This man was the woman I had been talking to for a month I'm pretty shocked as I'm sure you all can imagine But I end up taking him to go get some food with me almost out of sheer curiosity I start talking with him
He speaks English surprisingly well and he tells me all about his situation. I won't go into any details about it here but it's pretty gut wrenching. At this point the totally 100% straight Thai man had just asked for my hand in marriage. I was surprised in myself that I didn't say no right away because this is hands down the most insane thing that has ever happened to me in my entire life.
I guess it makes a little bit of sense though, because after spending the day with this guy and hearing his story I had grown a little attached to him. Alright, let's do it. This is hands down the most significant sentence I've ever said. A little while later, after jumping through numerous hoops similar to those already mentioned in other posts.
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Chapter 7: What lessons can be learned from both successful and failed mail order relationships?
She was 25. We chatted online and long distance for a couple of months. Then I took a trip to go meet visit her in her country. She had a regular job working for USAID in Zambia. I remember seeing her in person for the first time at the airport in Lusaka. I was struck by how tall and beautiful she was. We got married 9 days later. That was 12 years ago. We're still together and we've got 4 kids.
Sometimes these relationships don't work out, but sometimes they do. Okay this gets a little crazy. Everybody knew my neighbor was gay. It was a fact and never questioned. Let's call him Terry. Terry was about 45 and lived alone in his inherited mother's house that was 4 doors down from us. He kept himself to himself and seemed pleasant. One day we were surprised to see a Taiwanese woman.
About half his age had moved in. Let's call her June. June didn't speak much English and loved gardening. Over the next few months our neighbor's house was slowly transformed into a mini botanical garden. With a small fountain, new fences and the start of a new driveway. One day out of the blue, I heard a loud bang at my mother's front door. I was about 17 at the time, visiting from college.
I opened the door to find June stood on the pavement throwing crap at my mother's windows. Yes actual crap. I shouted at her what are you doing to which she ignored me and stormed back to her house. Now this was back in early 2003. So after telling my mother what had happened. We took the good old British route of cleaning it up and not causing trouble.
The pool was hard and not an issue to remove from the window frames, front lawn and fence. We thought that was it and laughed it off. Big mistake. The next time I visited my mother I noticed that there was more poo on my mother's front lawn and the lawn of our elderly next door neighbor.
Confused but incensed, I stormed round to Terry's house, with my bags still in hand, and banged loudly on the front door. Terry answered with a surprised look on his face, shaking. I shouted at him, tell your wife to stop throwing crap at my mother's house you weirdo and marched back home. A few days passed and my mom was pleased to report no issues. My outburst had worked.
The next door neighbor sent me a box of chocolates as a thank you and we celebrated with a BBQ. It was during that barbecue that the neighbor mentioned her cat had gone missing. My mother also had cats, who often roamed for a few days but always came home for dinner. We assured her he would be back and not to worry. A few days passed and we realized one of my mother's cats was also absent.
Then two and three, along with the neighbors. It suddenly dawned on all of us that the poo June was throwing at the house was cat poo from her garden. We have put up flyers etc, but haven't seen the cats since. Meanwhile Terry and June's new driveway looks lovely. One of my best friends was a mail order bride.
Well, she was a Czech girl on a website who you could write to and eventually visit and if everyone agreed she'd come back to the US and marry you. Which is what she did with a programmer guy here I never met personally, and NBSP. She was dedicated to being positive and loving and was stunningly gorgeous with fantastic curves. And honestly she's one of the smarter better people I've ever met.
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Chapter 8: How do personal anecdotes shape the perception of mail order brides?
But good looking woman. Nice to chat with. But no shared interests. No spark. Oh well. I still appreciated the thought equals. And NBSP. The sad part to the story was she helped bring over her best friend from home. A really gorgeous blonde waif girl with enormous breasts. She was ridiculously attractive if you like soft and fair skin types. For a relationship here that ended up not lasting.
Then her husband cheated on her with the new girl and got her. The new girl. Pregnant. Such an idiot. And nbsp. Anyway. My friend moved on. Got herself a new guy. Great guy too. Heck of a photographer. They had a couple of really amazing kids. They recently moved away. While they are happy and great into their new life, I miss her a ton. She's just a great person.
Her new husband was pretty awesome too equals. And her kids and mine got along really well. And NBSP. Overall, it left me with a really good impression of the whole possibilities there. And I'm really glad I got to know her. Everybody here seems to know one who did but not themselves. I actually married a mail order bride if you can call it so.
She wasn't actually a mail order bride but I went to Moscow and stayed at a hotel where it is known that Russian women who are looking for a foreign, preferably American German, husband hang out. Anyway I met her there, we had a short romance and we got married and she moved with me to the US. I can't say the marriage was a success because we divorced 2 years later.
The culture gap was just too much to overcome and obviously she understandably didn't have love on her mind but rather a way to improve her life and move to another country. I still harbor no resentment and take responsibility. A guy at work got his bride from Korea back in the 80s. They've been happily married since about 1985. I met her during the Christmas party last year.
She's an incredibly talented woman who can speak four languages. She speaks better English than her native-born American husband. Before they retired she was an English teacher, if I recall correctly. From what I hear from him, his relationship is the exception, not the rule. High school friend of mine met a man on vacation in the Caribbean.
She's a pudgy, insecure 30 year old girl and he was a handsome, younger guy working at the resort where she stayed. They were married within the year and he moved to our country. It's now been about a year since their marriage and she just purged all his photos from Facebook and changed back to her maiden name.
2 weeks before the purge she was posting about how proud she was that he got his citizenship. I guess he didn't wait long after that. I feel awful for her. Poor girl. She really was desperate to believe he actually loved her. I'm pretty sure my father in laws has a mail order bride. She's from East Asia and is a nice little petite, hardworking lady.
He's a 400 pound slob who she waits on him hand and foot. I actually prefer her to be around most of the time instead of him. Former colleague of mine, lovely guy, met a chick in Thailand. She was a single mum with a couple of kids. He took them on as his own, brought her to the UK, built a house for her, the works. They quickly had another kid.
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