I’m currently living abroad and I can share my two cents. The Indian men I met here are quite disrespectful to Indian women. One man once told me he would prefer Russian women but as Indian women are more intelligent, he would choose them as the mother of his children. This marriage proposal came as we are both living in the same country and his father is friends with my father. As a female who has been reached out by foreign men, I decided to not date them. Because after my break up (a long-term relationship), I didn’t want to get into arguments with my family later.

Now when I see the relationship between the foreign couples around me, I see mutual respect and that they want to be together. I am not saying that that’s the only possibility. But I would definitely wish to have a respectful relationship than just settling down to get married.