Top 10 Reasons I Married a Foreigner
(10) That glorious accent! Who knew an R could be rolled that way!
(9) Foreigners are oh-so-sophisticated. Whether they grow up on a farm, in the city, poor or rich, they just have an air of sophistication about them.
(8) He thinks I am fascinating. When we met, he didn’t realize how completely common I am in my home country… too late now!
(7) I have an open-ended excuse to travel. Ok, sometimes this can be completely annoying since every vacation abroad is filled with visiting his family but hey, at least I have a reason to board the plane and it is great not to have to cook and clean for a month.
(6) Our children will speak another language fluently and we won’t even have to pay an expensive tutor.
(5) He automatically charms friends and family. Mom needed a little time to get used to him and the whole idea, but she’s coming around.
(4) European chocolate and sweets. What better excuse to share in those yummy things he can’t live without?
(3) I love a challenge. Who would want to have a simple, normal, easy relationship? Especially after we started having children, things got really challenging (and it wasn’t the decision of whether to use cloth or disposable - that decision was the easiest: cloth!).
(2) Two weddings! Ok, so my mother is still upset that we didn’t have an American wedding but we really did want to have one, honestly, I swear!
(1) True Love! It just couldn’t be any other way! Breaking up in Versaille for those 10 minutes was excruciating! There was no way I could let him go and then years later wonder, “What if?”
© Corey Heller, 2006
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