In this an internet era, people can meet on an internet site a lot. Some people just become acquainted with someone then some of them become married couples on the internet. According to the article, Reuter, researchers at Iowa university report that an average of ages which married couples who met on the internet are higher than normal couples who did not meet on the internet and they had more experience of divorce than normal couples. The researchers also report that some married couples who met on the internet, they are different nationalities, furthermore, a few couples have gotten married even they had never met in person. This is totally strange. I understand that they feel excited to meet and talk on the internet but getting married is different from just to have a conversation. It is difficult to live together for a long time if they had never met before even though their relationship is good on the Internet. If someone has gotten married on the Internet, it is not bad but if they got divorce soon, I would say “Of course.”
A person who I know and is an American man met a Philippines woman who lived in the Philippines on the Internet and they had a relationship for a year then got married. They already decided that they would marry even they had never met in person before the day they met for the first time. I do not know how they nurtured the love between two people. I just thought they were serious. On the first day they met was at airport in the Philippines. The man flew to the Philippines to meet the woman. They are of course familiar each other at least their face because they talked on the Skype many times and already had decided to marry at that time. However when they met there the woman said “Who are you?” to the man. He said his name but she did not believe him then she asked him “Do you have your ID with you? because you are different from the Internet and from I thought.” If I were him I would leave from her soon but I actually would not decided that way to marry anyway.
Unfortunately, they got divorce after for a while. He said that they were just different. If it was comedy, it would be funny but it was not. I hope that people who want to meet someone on the Internet would not get a trouble.
