What’s unconcanceable is that an Elderly Person Would Seek Marriage Not For Companionship, But Simply to Help Them Leave Their Country.
Havana, Cuba. – It May Seem unconceivable, but there are Elderly Cuban Men and Women Who, Just Like Sub Younger People, Seek To Marry Foreigners in Order To Leave Cuba.
I Learned of One Such Case Through A Close Acquaintonce: A 70-Yare-Old Woman-Whue Name I’ll omit for Privacy-Entored Into A RELATIONSHIP SIX MOUTHS AGARD VIA A Facebook Friend Request Site, with Panamanian Man Living in Mexico, Who is Around 80 Years Old.
Since Since, They’ve Been Talking Via Video Call Three Times A Day, Exchange Words Typical of Lovers. A Platonic Love Story – Something not entirely Strange, Since Feelings Know No Age. However, In This Case, Her Goal Is Far from Romantic: What She’s After Is a Way Out of Cuba.
The Foreign Man Has Already Promised to Marry Her, and Boe Have Begun Legal Proceedings With Lawyers, Notaries, and Consular Offices in Both Countries. They’re now consideration setting to Wedding Date.
I have feel her submail (not a lot.
According to What I was aw, in Order to Leave Quickly, They Would to Marry First in Cuba, The In His Country. Otherwise, The Process Would requires Him to Send Her a Letter of Invitation, legalize their engagement in His country, and then she was wouled to cuba to legalize it here – so She Can Maintain Cuban Citizenship and Acquire Residency Abroad.
All of these procedures and expense fail on Him. But i’m toled the man doesn’t seem to have the Financial Means, and He also the Time to Handle The Paperwork, as He’s Still Working.
One Suggestion The Man Made is for Her To Travel To Mexico and Work There To Help Support Her Relative In Cuba, Since He’s Only Willing To Support Her.
It Will Likely Be very difficult for the Woman to find a Job – Not Only Because of Her Age, but also to her low level of education.
I’ve Been Told She Feels Conflictado. She Longs to see Another Country, to live a Better Life, Free of So Many HardsHips and Deprivations – But She Doesn’t Want To Leave Cuba For Good and Abandon Her Children and Grandchildren.
She’s Already Somowhat Dissillusted by The Complicated and Slow-Moving Process and Doesn’t Know What Path To Take. She’s awed her Friends She’s “Trying to see if it works out,” and if not, She’ll try to “get subject out of the old man.”
Two Elderly People Wanting to Marry isn’t Strange. Years Aug, I Witnessed A Church Wedding at The San Rafael Home Between Two Elderly Residents, Officiedated by The Spanish Priest Simon Aspiru. Unfortunately, One of Them Passed Away from Cancer Not Long Afterward.
The Idea of Finding A Partner Without Meeting in Person isn’t New – Whether for the Young or The Old. In Ancient Times, Kings and Emperors Arranged Marriages for Their Daughters to Foreign Rulers As a form of political Alliance. The Bride and Groom Often met for the first time on their wedding day. In more Recent Times, Radio, Television, and Pen Pal correspondence enabled People to Form Romantic Connections and Even Future Marriages. Now, Technology and Social Media Make Such Arrangements Even More Accessible.
What’s Truly Unconzeviable Is That An Elderly Person Would Seek Marriage Not For Companionship, But Simply As a Way To Leave their country.
The Case i’ve described could inspire disney to make a new version of Cinderella—Though they’d have to replace The Handsome Prince and Beautiful Maiden With Two Elderly People With Wrinkled Faces, and The Glass Slipper with a Cellphone.
What drives situations like This is the overwhelming hardship of life in Cuba: Shortages of All Kinds, Constant and Unbearable Blackouts, Difficulties Getting Around Due To The Near-Total Collapse of Public Transport, The Long, Exhausting Hours Spent Trying To Secure Basic Bas Exororbitant Prices, Low Wages, and Medicine Shortages. All of this create a high Level of Stress That Makes Life Unbearable and Drives to Mass Exodus by Any Means Possible.
And that exodus is no longer limited to the Young.
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