Russian brides > Main Forum > How many of you have been trying the "foreign bride" thing for several years and are still single and/or not having success?
Does it get to a point where you're tired of spending thousands of dollars on flights, hotels, gifts, meals, drinks, etc......and you continue to go home with no girlfriend or fiancee? The women will meet you but really aren't serious about forming a serious romantic relationship with you. At what point do you say, this isn't working, and decide that are you going to be single for the rest of your life or go after whatever women are available where you live (probably single mothers with no money). It's like trying to find a good starting RB in the late rounds of a fantasy football draft, LOL.
David,
Ok it is a little bit different for a European whereas our airfares cost hudreds rather tha thousands. My attitude was that I was going to take a holiday anyway whereas I would be paying for flights, hotels, food and drink so that zero's the balance out.
I kept trying for 5 years, I met some wrong types, I made some mistakes or as I prefer to call them 'learning experiences' and I came close to 'throwing in the towel' on more than one occasion but the end result made it all worthwhile and ten times over.
Martin_UK, Tell me about your learning experiences? Where did you go and what happened? What was the end result? Did you find somebody and marry? Thanks.
David,
Learning experiences, aka mistakes, involves wasting one's time writing to the wrong type of lady thus wasting, each time, perhaps 3 months of one's life and moves on to meeting and occupying time with the wrong type of lady.
Occupying time with wrong types is a very valuable learning experience, you learn what to be wary of when with them and also what to detect, in advance, in letters.
In answer to your question regarding the end result the answer is 'yes', a very happy 'yes'.
Martin
Can you elaborate on the wrong types. I can see some that are not timely in responding to e-mails and not answering direct questions. Some others send a daily e-mail. Answer all of the questions. Some are totally excited and saying romantic things.
Please tell us more detail of your horror stories.
Martin, I am glad that for you it seems to have been well worth and a resounding success. It would be interesting to get your insights into what you learned what works and what does not. I suppose it is different with everyone. I have been at this for going on 3 years now, hopefully also have learned a few things, and am in a relationship now that I feel better than I ever have before.
I would be careful to jumping to conclusions about whether women answer on a daily basis, or not. I have learned from my trips that life in FSU is incomparable more difficult than here, certainly if you are dealing with someone from cities others then Moscow or Petersburg, they seem to be pretty European there in many ways. As for not answering questions, that is certainly something to worry about, and if it becomes a pattern probably something that needs to be addressed.
There is nothing wrong if a lady does not answer emails for up to a few days, if she speaks English she is in a position to respond quicker than a non English speaker but it needs to be understood that 95% (ish) do noy have their own PC's and this makes communications difficult particularly on their economy.
Not answering direct questions isn't good but it might not be the ladies fault, it could be that the interpreter is not interpreting correctly, this can be a common problem of writing via an agency and it is always preferable to write direct emails to each others own email addresses.
The wrong types in letters can be the ones that proclaim their love and within a few days, the ones that write over soppyish things, the ones that talk about money, letter writing is not a 'fairy tale', if you were dating a lady locally would you expect her to be permanently soppy, to be in love with you even before your first date, to talk and talk about money etc. Letter writing should be as near to real life as is possible.
I was in Ukraine last week and I heard that an American had suggested to the agency that a man should deposit USD10,000.00 into a bank account for the lady to see her through the term of her fiancee visa. I discussed this with my wife and told her it was utter b0llocks and merely a man trying to show off. An American fiancee visa is for 3 months and I asked my wife if she thought it was reasonable that a lady spend USD40,000.00 a year on personal items for herself such as cosmetics and clothes, even USD10,000.00 for a 6 month visa equates to USD20,000.00 a year, absolutely ridiculous.
The problem with meeting ladies in FSU now is that the word has gone round that foreign men buy them expensive gifts but many ladies do not understand how this should be interpreted and more and more are expecting the man, indeed taking the man, on the expensive shopping trips on day 1, 2 or 3. Some know that they are taking the p1ss, others are just going by what they have been told, indeed agencies are promoting their own services by saying that the men will buy these gifts, effectively they are using our money to promote their business.
For such reasons I'm glad I'm no longer involved in it.
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