CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> John W. wrote:

> > How many of the cases are foreign Western female rather than male? (I
> > say Western, but mean 'not bride for hire/illegal worker.)? 

> Roughly 5% p.a., but the percentage varies a lot because of the total 
> sample size.

> > I guess I'm lucky that I met my wife in the US and we already had a
> > fairly stable relationship that survived (more or less) me working in
> > Korea while she studied in the US.

> My wife likes to remind me that, because she is an advisor from 
> time-to-time and makes calls to the police to help me bail out husbands 
> who have done Very Stupid Things (tm), she knows about this part of my 
> business and ... so far ... she's resisted any temptation to dump me for 
> any of the reasons she's observed lesser Japanese women dumping their 
> husbands for.  I'm not sure if that means we're stable or that she's too 
> lazy ...

Both are good qualities...

Mike