I believe the answer is: <span>expected they would eventually meet
In the studies, they found that women tend to show stronger preference with someone that they could emotionally connect with This study is carried out in 1967, when options for long-term communication was extremely limited, so they tend to show stronger preference for the people they expected to meet the most.</span>
The moved later Ruth and her daughter-in-law move back after the famine because both her sons and her husband died its in the book of Ruth in the bible.
