'I paid £15,000 for my Filipino wife - people call her my maid but we are happy'

A antheral got joined to a Filipino pistillate aft 3 weeks of speaking online - helium paid thousands to alert retired to spot her and bring her to the US

A antheral paid $20,000 (£15.8k) to bring a pistillate helium had been speaking online for a fewer weeks to the US - radical telephone her his "maid" and dub her a "gold digger" but they importune they are happy.

Evan and Stefania met connected a Filipino dating website and rapidly deed it off. After speaking for conscionable implicit 3 weeks, Evan was bursting to conscionable Stefania successful idiosyncratic - and spent $5,000 (£3.9k) connected a travel to The Philippines to conscionable her. The mates instantly became fellow and woman and began discussing their aboriginal - aft spending $15,000 (£11.8k) connected trips to spot Stefania, Evan brought up filling an engagement visa and surviving successful the US together.

Evan explained connected YouTube's Truly TV: "During the process we had 90 days to get joined during her accomplishment to the US, we had a concealed elopement successful June and conscionable this past Sunday we had a wedding with my family."

Now hubby and wife, the mates stock their narration online but are often met with judgement and radical assuming that helium wanted a "maid" and she needed a greenish card.

"People justice maine due to the fact that my hubby spent $20,000 bringing maine present to the US," Stefania said. Stefania, who does each of the cleaning, cooking and location enactment astatine their location successful Pennsylvania, said she had ne'er utilized a dishwasher oregon tumble dryer earlier moving to America.

Evan said: "When radical accidental Stefania is my maid, I don't instrumentality it personally, due to the fact that I cognize that we're some blessed and we person a bully happening going betwixt us." Evan's admits that his Susan was acrophobic astatine archetypal regarding the agelong region of their narration - but she said she was successful tears erstwhile she saw however blessed Stefania was erstwhile Evan got disconnected the level to conscionable her for the archetypal time.

The mates present stock an penetration into their narration connected their YouTube transmission and TikTok. While they person been inundated with support, they besides get a batch of judgement. Stefania added: "The comments we get online are like: 'you could not get idiosyncratic successful the US', 'she's going to beverage your wealth adust boy'."

Others person dubbed her a golden digger. "We brushwood disconnected astir of the hatred comments," Ethan added. The brace accidental they emotion playing into people's comments. They gag astir Stefania being "a fiscal burden" pursuing comments that she is simply a "gold digger". Ethan commented: "People questioned if she was successful it for emotion oregon a greenish card.

"She had a fewer friends that were a small sceptical. She had immoderate household members that thought possibly I was excessively young, adjacent though I'm 4 years older." Showing emotion for the brace connected Truly TV's YouTube feature, 1 idiosyncratic said: "She is beauteous and honestly, who has country to justice different people's relationships." "Jealous ones are envying this beauteous couple," different added.

"This emotion communicative is beautiful," wrote another. Another commented: "I spot thing incorrect with this, for once. Love tin travel if some get connected with each other. I anticipation this volition beryllium the lawsuit here."

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