[throwaway_1512]

You make it sound like they had to fill out a form. There was such practice in ancient history where the monarchs would have “swayamvar” and eligible groom candidates would have to go through tests.

In the contemporary world, it’s no different than Tinder/OkC, just the CSS(HTML) is different but the dynamics are the same.

[scarface74]

With Tinder or OkCupid, if I asked about how they felt about marriage and kids on the first date, I would be ghosted so fast it would make my head spin.

He went to India for two weeks and came back talking about marriage. He had never met or spoken to his now wife beforehand.

[Talanes]

Well, yeah, that's more of an eHarmony relationship.

[searchableguy]

> He went to India for two weeks and came back talking about marriage. He had never met or spoken to his now wife beforehand.

That doesn't sound normal.

[ido]

I want to add more "anecdata" of also knowing several people with similar stories (it may have been going to India for 2 months rather than 2 weeks.

They met during that time in India and married shortly thereafter.