— myself. It didn't matter to us that we hadn't seen each other in real life. He proposed in April 2021, a month after we started direct-messaging each other. We were in love., United Arab Emirates, on November 25, 2021, because it was about halfway between the US and Kazakhstan, where Precious lived. We planned to stay in Dubai for three days, then have the wedding in Nigeria, where he grew up.
He told me to download WhatsApp. We talked about our jobs — he taught English in Kazakhstan, and I'd written two— and what we wanted from life. He was humorous and honest. He stood on his own feet. He had all the qualities I was looking for in a husband. My six brothers and sisters told me he wanted to marry me just to get a visa for the US. My pastor told me he'd watched a documentary about a woman who married someone she'd met on the internet."It didn't end well," he said.