[BlueLancer]

I was in the Army in 1979, stationed at Fort Hood, alone and away from home. I figured I'd get a foreign pen-pal to help pass the time. I went to the library and researched Australian newspapers and put personal ads in three of the main ones. I got about 15 or so responses and, of those, one was an Australian lady five years my senior. We wrote back and forth, talked on the phone, exchanged photos, for over a year and, when I was assigned to Korea in 1980, I flew to Australia on February 13th and we were married on 14 February, Valentine's Day.

We were still happily married when she died of health complications in 2005.

So it can work ...

[Yaelle]

Awwwww! What a great story! I’m so glad you had that lifetime of joy together.

I’m just sour because mine didn’t work, don’t mind me!

[Mears]

“So it can work ... “

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It certainly can.

My DIL’s grandmother was a “picture bride” and the marriage lasted for many years.

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[Tired of Taxes]

A coworker married her husband a week after they met.

And a friend in high school married her husband within weeks of meeting.

Both men were in the military. Both couples were happily married for many years, last I talked with them.

If people are the marrying kind, they’ll make it work.