Online dating and marriage across borders

Meeting a man or a woman online and eventually marrying someone is no big deal any more. May be eHarmony should even stop talking about it because it no longer has that Wow factor. What still has some Wow factor though is meeting and marrying someone from thousands of miles away.

So it was interesting when I ran into Tanya. I was waiting for my wife to try on some clothes at the new Zara store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. When the girl, who was handing out tags and restocking the clothes, smiled at me, I said Hi and just asked her about how long the store has been around and what she thought of the clothes there. Since she had an accent and spoke English rather slowly, I assumed that she might have be an employee at the Zara headquarters in Spain. Well, she said that she was an American but grew up in the Dominican Republic. Only recently she has moved to New York with her Argentinean husband whom she met online.

That is when it got really interesting for me and I found out more. She published her online profile on an online dating website and to her surprise, she heard from a lot of men (I was not surprised to hear that since she is extremely pretty) who were not in the Dominican Republic. And as they say, the rest is history. The couple tried to build a future in Argentina but the poor economy had little hope for them. So, though they both don't seem to speak a lot of English, she is back in her mother land to pursue a dream.

I continue to be amazed how online dating is shrinking the world. A couple that has their roots in three countries now!