Cross-cultural marriages are defined as marriages between people who come from two different cultural backgrounds.

This trend is also becoming cross-national with more and more people frequently visiting across the globe for travel, work and family purposes, or even to find their ‘soulmates’ with and without the help of internet.

This is the story of a Danish woman who recently married an Indian man from Punjab after meeting him on the internet despite knowing the fact that he was a drug addict.

Natasha Natalie Sommer from Copenhagen recently tied the knot with Malkit Singh Aujla from Sundal village in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.

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According to a report published in The Tribune, Ms Natalie belongs to a well-off Danish family and her father runs a cafeteria in the capital city of Copenhagen.

On January 1 this year, she met Mr Singh through an online chat.

The duo instantly got talking. Ms Natalie claims that she was impressed with Mr Singh’s honesty after he told her that he was unemployed and was battling with an addiction problem, right at the beginning of their conversation.

“He was very honest and upfront about his problem of drug addiction. But he wanted to get out of this,” she told the Daily Post Punjabi.

“From the day first we had same plans. We wanted to get married. We were looking for a soulmate or a life partner.”

The chatting went on for the next 20 days before they decided to meet in person, in India.

Ms Natalie reached Punjab on January 23 on a tourist visa on Malkit's invitation and after a few days they got married according to Sikh rituals.

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Mr Singh who has been jobless from the last few years had told Ms Natalie that he wanted to get rid of his addiction problem and run his own business, like he used to, a few years ago.

This is when Ms Natalie decided she would help him with his overcome his addiction.

“I made a goal for myself to help my husband to get the de-addiction,” she told the Daily Post Punjabi.

She took him to Serbia for treatment but didn’t get the desired results prompting them to return to India.

Mr Singh is currently being treated at the ‘Red Cross Drug De-addiction Centre’ in Gurdaspur.

'It is going well and now I feel that the battle against his drug problem will soon be over,” said Ms Natalie.

Mr Singh is yet to decide if he wants to open a study visa business in Punjab or travel to Denmark to start another business with the support of his in-laws.

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