How did you meet your Filipino Fiance?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

For many, the internet has replaced the bar girl scene. It's cheaper and you're less likely to get an STD from computer keyboard.

It wouldn't be proper to call them mail order brides anymore. How about ebay brides?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Actually, I was looking to open a gentlemen's club in Costa Rica. How I got snared by my Filipina bride I will never know. I suspect some sort of witchcraft was involved.

[Edrotar 8]

Actually, I was looking to open a gentlemen's club in Costa Rica. How I got snared by my Filipina bride I will never know. I suspect some sort of witchcraft was involved.

lol too funny! Im sure it was witchcraft! lol

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lol too funny! Im sure it was witchcraft! lol

Sure, we even have a word for it. GAYUMA. Ask your wife

[calibob 73]

Actually, I was looking to open a gentlemen's club in Costa Rica. How I got snared by my Filipina bride I will never know. I suspect some sort of witchcraft was involved.

Who knew it was voo-doo!

Bob

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Sure, we even have a word for it. GAYUMA. Ask your wife

[Edrotar 8]

lol yes love potion, she just told me!! I like to call it Capt Morgans

[Edrotar 8]

Most couples here met online via an international dating site, so talking about why someone chose a particular dating site and what the criteria was for women who became members is part of the story here. Are there any Filipino men who use the site to find American women? Are there any American women who find Filipino men? It's a niche market - middle aged or older men pairing up with young Filipinas, and with that, all kinds of problems.

As for how I met my wife, we were introduced by mutual friends. These friends I had met from a previous trip to the Philippines, where I did get to know another Filipina that I connected to through one of those dating sites. That connection ended up being a disaster. I had used local dating sites (Lava and another one I can't remember) prior to trying an international dating site and the interactions with the women are much different in comparison. For example, on a local dating site, the interactions are very casual, cautious and lighthearted. You also have snowball's chance in hell with dating-up to someone who is ten times more good looking than you. With an international dating site, women will practically throw themselves at the men, regardless of his physical appearance. The reality is, that for many Filipinas who use those dating sites, it's a potential ticket out of a meager existence, so the men have the upper hand and therefore can date-up to girls who would never give them the time of day if they were living in the U.S..

I can fully agree with this, cause Ive seen it on here. I've also seen it in person at Paradise Island and our hotel in Manila. There were men in their 50's with young girls and I mean as young as 18. I was telling my fiance who is 10yrs younger then me but still within an acceptable age bracket for me being 40, that there is no way they could bring them girls back to the states and it be acceptable by there families. I'm sure most of those men had children older then the girls they were spending their time with. It actually made me a little uncomfortable seeing that. Just is not right in the American Eye. But you have to admit that the Philippines does have the most beautiful women.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I can fully agree with this, cause Ive seen it on here. I've also seen it in person at Paradise Island and our hotel in Manila. There were men in their 50's with young girls and I mean as young as 18. I was telling my fiance who is 10yrs younger then me but still within an acceptable age bracket for me being 40, that there is no way they could bring them girls back to the states and it be acceptable by there families. I'm sure most of those men had children older then the girls they were spending their time with. It actually made me a little uncomfortable seeing that. Just is not right in the American Eye. But you have to admit that the Philippines does have the most beautiful women.

It is what it is and it's hard to say which marriages are more legitimate than others, but obviously there is an incentive for older men who want a younger, prettier woman, to look to women from Third World countries who also have an incentive to seek out American men.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

It is what it is and it's hard to say which marriages are more legitimate than others, but obviously there is an incentive for older men who want a younger, prettier woman, to look to women from Third World countries who also have an incentive to seek out American men.

The flip side as well. Just look at the MENA forum and points south of the USA.

Edited June 29, 2011 by Some Old Guy

[gretchen_darren 67]

voodoo is known as Kalam... the guy who was shot, she practiced Kalam, then Hilot.

[vertman 4]

.... so the men have the upper hand and therefore can date-up to girls who would never give them the time of day if they were living in the U.S..

Oh man ... you got that one right. Have you seen some of these guys?? Yikes! Myself excluded of course ...Haaa... yea right.

[sweetpink 1]

For many, the internet has replaced the bar girl scene. It's cheaper and you're less likely to get an STD from computer keyboard.

before I was even here in the US my husband almost got into a fight. He went to a furniture store and along his conversation with the sales person my husband (who was then still my fiance) said that his fiancee is from Philippines, the sales lady made a comment and referred me as "mail order bride", luckily my husband was with his friend and told him to keep his cool and walked him outside the store.

BTW,our story goes like this..

My hubby used to be in Navy and has been stationed to Philippines twice. When he first told me this, I did my calculation. His first trip I was only 9 and the second one I was only 12 (he's 10 years older than me ) well of course we haven't met yet then. It was 2004 that my co-teachers taught me how to use chat rooms (out of boredom after long day from work). Sept. 2004 that we first said hi hello in AsianEuro public chat room, exchanged yahoo ID and was chatting for 2 wks. without looking each other on camera. To make the story short...April 2006 he came to visit me in Cebu, Philippines and to find out of whether things will work between us...June 05, 2007 came to America and had our Wedding August 15, 2007....Our son Ethan was born July 13, 2009 (2 days before my birthday)...he'll be 2 yrs. old nxt month and it's gonna be our 4th Wedding Anniversary this year...Very Happy and Inlove.

Edited June 29, 2011 by sweetpink

[R&W 5]

Your son is so cute sweetpink! Your son has the very same bubbling lawn mower as my son. It's a pretty cool toy.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Oh man ... you got that one right. Have you seen some of these guys?? Yikes! Myself excluded of course ...Haaa... yea right.

You and your wife are a nice looking couple, but lets be honest, Paul, do you think you would have been able to find a woman of her age and beauty here in the states? For example, there are millions of Filipino-Americans living here in the states and plenty of young, beautiful Filipinas, yet the frequency of these Filipina Americans marrying much older, American men is very low compared to the ones coming from the Philippines. So it's obvious that there are incentives for middle-aged to older American men to look to the Philippines for young, pretty Filipinas.

Edited June 30, 2011 by 8TBVBN