I'm sighted, my husband is blind. We met online, and I didn't care at all that he was blind; the more important things to me were that he had a great sense of humor along with good grammar, spelling, and punctuation. And he also seemed to be pretty intelligent just based upon his initial message. I'd had a blind friend in high school, so it wasn't even a thing for me. He was just a nice guy I was talking to and very unexpectedly (and somewhat unwillingly--but that's a long story that has nothing to do with him and everything to do with me) falling in love with.

We've been together since 2009. Got married in 2012. My parents honestly still don't seem to know how to act around him or treat him, and what they think is helpful just comes across as them thinking he's incapable of doing things for himself. That's on my parents, though, and unconscious biases/beliefs that they hold. I think when my husband and I first started dating and I told my parents he was blind, there was some surprise, followed by, "Well, you have always loved taking care of people..." \*rolling my eyes\* They still don't seem to understand that he takes care of me far more than I take care of him.

Because at the end of the day, it's not about being sighted or blind--it's about how much you love each other and how much you complement each other. I'm ADHD and horrible with numbers and budgeting. My husband is fantastic with numbers and budgeting. I can drive. He can't (well, he can't legally...). We make each other laugh, have conversations about anything and everything, and he's my best friend. He might be blind, but he sees the real me--unlike pretty much everyone other than my therapist. And I see the real him.

Am I the "breadwinner?" Sure. But if the only value you're placing on a potential partner is monetary, I feel like maybe you should go back a couple of centuries. Because there's so much more to a successful marriage than the husband being the breadwinner/head of household--like love, mutual respect and admiration, having stuff in common, and the ability to roll with the punches and laugh at the crazy stuff that gets thrown at you.

As a sighted girl with blind friends I am close to, it really doesn't factor in. If they were the right man for me, I would definitely not hesitate to marry a blind man. I doubt my parents would mind that much. That saying, I would be looking for someone who has good organizational and executive function skills that I am weak in because of my ADHD and ASD. In a way, these conditions make me far more open and give me a unique perspective, since I do not only think primarily in terms of sight. I have a very vivid sensory world with which to relate to my blind friends. I love touching things and exploring different textures, so when we went out together, it was just intuitive to find different things for him to touch.

I did - like all marriage it’s a risk. I do the driving. I try to get more quiet time for my own productivity since I prefer he not use headphones and damage hearing when doing tasks like reading. When I passed out he couldn’t really help right away - but then an abusive sighted husband might not have helped on purpose. Choices around kids - is this genetic might impact decision. I wouldn’t change my choice - having sight is not as important as having vision.

I know blind people married to sighted people and blind people married to other blind people. Because people marry people, and the eyes needn’t be a factor.

That being said, I feel like this is one of those things where culture is going to play a big role in perception. For example, if the woman is from a culture that strongly emphasizes the man as head of house and breadwinner, she or her family may be trepidatious about marrying a blind man, especially for they labour under the notion that the blind are helpless dependents. Getting to know her, and her family should, presumably, put that notion to rest.

My fiancé is sighted, but I didn’t set out to find a sighted man to marry. We met because we have similar interests. If he was the same except for being blind, I’d be just as happy to marry him.

I’m sure there are going to be people who aren’t interested in you because you are blind, and that sucks. But then, there are also people who won’t be interested because you’re too short, or have the wrong hair colour. Because people. And the people who prejudge you because of your eyes aren’t likely to be people you want to marry anyway. So it might take a little bit longer, but plenty of sighted people also have trouble finding the right relationship, so I’d say it’s not a problem exclusive blindness.

I am sighted, husband very low vision. We met while studying. My parents where a bit concerned in the beginning, but I knew what I was getting into, and they love him very much now, they just needed to see that he was independent. We are expecting our first child together now!

Lol what
If said person is well educated, earns well and is a good person, I fail to see why it matters whether they are blind or not.