“The key thing is to get to know their family.”
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That may help but it is no key.
I knew my first wife’s family quite closely from teenage days.
I married her at age 36, after she divorced her first husband.
There is no magic bullet.
I just recently married my Philippine girlfriend that I met on my first trip here in 2008.
I moved here and we have lived together since Jan 2009.
We married at the end of last year.
Yes, I know her family quite well. They live in the same town, and our baby boy spends much of his daytime at their house.
The family stuff doesn’t really apply to Americans, since they’re immersed since birth in the “hate men” culture that we have today, and only a very women can ignore that influence (and only if they didn’t live at college).
I was thinking more in terms of women from other countries, as some may have baggage too, particularly if they’ve been in the country (US) for a while.
Sounds like you have a great setup out there, congrats.