questor wrote:
You are not ready for a relationship, as you are not looking for someone to love, but instead are looking for someone to control,--what amounts to a sex and housework slave. This will likely get you in a lot of trouble if you pursue it, as that's illegal, and for good reason.
You girls are such drama queens. First, it was obvious flame-bait. Second, even the extreme example that he's suggesting is no worse than the foreign coerced labor that your entire lives are built on. So spare us the moral self-righteousness that you obviously don't really believe in.
As for the OP's question, I can't answer directly. I have one relative who married a Thai exchange-student who he met in college, and she's been fantastic. She's raised three healthy, happy, smart kids despite one being pretty oppositional. By contrast, about half of the American women in the family have used the "My kid is defective!" excuse without doing anything to adjust their own attitudes to match their kids' needs. They all have attentive, accommodating husbands and plenty of other support, so that's not the problem.
In Costa Rica it's almost hard to avoid meeting women. They're surprisingly educated - many are bilingual and most have real jobs - and also very fit from walking everywhere. I've only been down there for a quick vacation, so I certainly haven't explored the dating scene, but I was told that many of them dislike the groveling insecurity of most American men. I also talked with a Tica (Costa Rican woman) on the flight there, and a Panamanian woman on the way home, both of whom had very favorable views of American men (we didn't talk about insecurity), and of their husbands in particular. One of them was already living and working in the US when they met, so she didn't have to marry. Both of them had been married for a long time and were conspicuously happy. The Panamanian lady told me stories about living in Alaska, traveling all over, and how pleased she was with her kids. (Her biggest complaint was that they lived too far away.)
It's a night-and-day difference: good attitudes, healthy expectations, strong parenting skills, physical fitness, warmth... Why buy American? That would be like passing over a clockwork-smooth Toyota or Datsun from the '70s for an overpriced gas-hog Caddy that always breaks down.
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