This study explores how digital spaces reshape love, elopement, and marriage for young women in Dhaka’s urban slums, offering new opportunities for private courtship and partner selection while exposing them to harassment, surveillance, and social risk. Based on longitudinal qualitative research with 23 young women, the analysis draws on literature on women’s agency in marriage decisions and global and South Asian evidence on the Internet’s role in shaping relationships. While digital platforms expand choices, marriage remains a critical institution for financial and social security, making young women’s agency highly precarious. Digital romance does not create new patterns of love and marriage but rather reconfigures existing ones, amplifying both possibilities and constraints. It becomes yet another site to reinforce patriarchal constraints, turning online romance into both a tool for empowerment and a site of vulnerability. Without social and institutional support, young women continue to navigate relationships under conditions of both newfound autonomy and persistent precarity.