Reddit users reveal what it’s like to order a woman on the internet
"My mother chose my dad because she was afraid of scammers, and he wasn't playing himself off as a rich doctor or anything."
IMAGINE finding out that your mum is a mail order bride, or watching your dad get arrested because his online wife attacked him.
Well, that is exactly what happened to these users who have opened up about their experiences on the internet forum.
Their responses were to the question: "To anyone that has ordered a mail order bride, what was it like and what happened?"
Here are some of their responses.
My dad got arrested.
ThatJuiceHead wrote: "My dad had one a few years back. He met her online and flew out to get her after a while.
She was a shut in and was legitimately afraid of me because she thought I was smoking pot.
Funny thing was that I had never smoked weed at the time (I was 17). It was a weird dynamic.
If I was home she stayed in her room, unless I had been in my room for an extended period and she deemed it safe to get food from the kitchen. My room was in the basement just for clarification.
"The few times we crossed paths she would see me, gasp and then run to her room.
"My dad never saw this as a problem. He basically catered to her every want and need. Also I should mention he was 56 and she was 29.
"A year later I moved out. Since then she has attacked him on two occasions and had him arrested.
"Eventually he sent her back, or maybe she left I don't know. I no longer speak to my father so that's the extent of my knowledge."
They became bounty hunters together
"This weird, creepy friend-of-a-friend married one," said signalnine.
"He was a Desert 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 friends 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 hell 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."
There is PDA at every opportunity
Artistic-waves said: "One of my mom's friend's married a mail order bride from the Philippines about ten years ago.
"I spent New Years at their house two 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-thirties. 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."
My mum was a mail order bride
"My father found my mother (Filipina also) this way, however it was before this was ever done online," added Dragonflie
"He found her in some sort of "mail order bride" magazine, and they sent hundreds of letters to each other over the course of a year before meeting.
"My mother chose my dad because she was afraid of scammers, and he wasn't playing himself off as a rich doctor or anything. Just a poor farmer looking for a sweet Filipino wife.
"Anyway, flash forward 23 years and they're still happily married, retired and travelling the world together.
"They have two daughters, myself and my sister. They both were in it for a better life, and they got one."
I'm the mail order bride!
Heer98 was happy to confess his position.
He said: "Well, sort of. More like "Mail order husband."
"I met a 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!"
'She made us guacamole popsicles'
Haplodiploidy said: "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 them a dog named Sasha, she thought we said Tasha and now its name is Tasha.
"Married like 2 years, she took the dog's husband and daughter and fled the state after she got her drivers license.
"I don't know how my grandfather got the dogs back."
'She was very adamant about the chickens'
"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, " said Mr_Gilmore_Jr.
"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.";