I have been talking to a woman from the Ukraine that is 11 years younger than me she is 20 I am 31 can someone truly have interest in a person this much older than them. I am a an attractive man not gorgeous but simply attractive in good athletic shape I am 5' 9" and 160 pound to give you an idea what I look like. She is a very attractive woman with what I would call a good personality. She seems to be a genuine person and the looks of her pictures very sweet and innocent which I feel is how she truly is an has not posed this way to be misleading. Are the women from Russia And the Ukraine more mature than women from the US as they say they are? We have only been talking for about a month and I have grown to care for this woman more than I should this early. When is it to soon to tell her I feel this way? I don't want to scare her off she seems to be genuine in my opinion. I have read that in order for someone to access the internet they have to use phone cards is this true, this seems to be a very expensive.
Q: Are the women from Russia And the Ukraine more mature than women from the US as they say they are?
A: A 20 year old girl in any country is still 20. She may have started dating earlier, and she may be thinking about a family earlier, but she still only has 20 years of life experience.
Q: We have only been talking for about a month and I have grown to care for this woman more than I should this early. When is it to soon to tell her I feel this way?
A: It is too soon to tell her about your feelings before you have met in person.
Q: I have read that in order for someone to access the internet they have to use phone cards is this true, this seems to be a very expensive.
A: I am sitting in a cafe in Odessa right now using the wifi for free. Of course, this requires a laptop, which is expensive. However, I went to an internet cafe in Kherson that was 1 Grivna for 30 minutes. That's about $.23/30 minutes. Not expensive.
katpol,
You say you have been talking to her, is this 'talking' or merely emailing?
If she has already told you the cost of her internet, and that she claims it requires phone cards, then it sounds like she's hinting that you send money, if you haven't done so already, and if so then she is a scammer.
Internet cafes are commonplace in Ukraine for minimal prices so this phone card nonsense is absolutely that, nonsense.
If you have merely been emailing then you shouldn't have developed any feelings for her, the only feeling you should have is that you'd like to jump on a plane to Ukraine to check her out but only after you have done the normal checks of actually reading in to her letters to establish if she is actually writing to you, or is the same letter perhaps going out to a dozen guys, does she answer your questions or does she merely talk about the weather and her work etc. and also run anything you have on her thru Google such as her name, her address and a sentence or two from the profile you found her on and her first and second letters to you.
i'm in kiev right now and can say that there are quite a few internet clubs around here. most people seem to use them. i had to fix someone's pc the other day and he uses his mobile phone as a modem, but it's almost too slow to actually do anything.
as for the age gap... i am 36 and olya is 23 and neither of us see that as any kind of issue. though i do think she is pretty mature for her age and i would still prefer to go clubbing than go to a restaurant or whatever! so long as you're into the same kind of stuff.
and oh yes... i should have been back in the UK almost a week ago but missed my flight! damn! finally flying home this friday afternoon! at least i've managed to spend some more time with olya. some photos i've taken of olya are on facebook if anyone's curious.
Yes I would find them more mature for their ages but i would think this is due to a harder life than we have, my wife is 25 and im 33 but still there is a little
immaturity as well as said earlier shes still 25, but hey nobodies perfect it just means you have to work a little harder.
And of course there is lots of internet cafes around but using them is expensive for anyone who maybe only has a salary of 100 to 150 dollars a month. As martin etc says go meet her and see how it goes//////////
11 years gap is OK I think. My lady is 9 years younger than me and in her early 30's. Indeed she actually runs an agency and says women looking for men 10 ish years older are usually genuine wheres those claiming to be happy with men 20 years older are probably not ...
Personally I'd be more concerned about her age in absolute terms rather than the gap - be wary for any signs that she doesn't have a steady job, they don't have the dole over there so ask yourself how shes managing to live ...
Im very proud of my wife I told her to give up her 150 dollar a month job and id support her(shes just finishing her college and wanted to work at the same time) but she refused and still works rather than rely on me im just back from her graduation and it was great. If i wrote down everthing here of how great she is Id never have enought room haha
Martin_FFC
She herself did not bring money into our conversations this was just something I had read here on this sight I was just curious because if it did require a phone card then I was concerned she may be spending too much money. I know that she is not a wealthy girl but she has never brought finances into any of our conversations. I guess I came to the assumption that she is not a wealthy girl is I asked her about her cat and she had told me it wasn't hers but her Grandmothers to make a long story short she lives in a flat with both her mother and grandmother.
We have talked over the internet pretty much everyday sometimes with the time difference one of us will receive 2 letters a day and her replies to my emails contain answers to questions asked they don't seem to be prefabricated and meant for more than one person.
Yes she has a job as a nurse which I think from what I have read on the internet is actually a low paying job in the Ukraine unlike here in the states. I am just concerned about her finances because I know a proper woman would not complain about this and I feel as though she wouldn't touch on the issue.
I want to thank all of you for your advice it has help some and yes I am going to book a flight in the next month or so.
Katpol,
my friend uses the phonecard for internet. Yes, the internet is slow and not cheap but it is better to use it instead of going to internet cafes. I pay a lot for internet each month, but I will never go to such cafes, I simply hate them.
As for nurse, yes, it is very low paying. There are two jobs in Ukraine that are paying the worst: teachers and doctors (nurses).
I suppose she has graduated some medical college (3 years studying) so she started from this job to follow her speciality.
Do you really write emails to each other? Maybe you better try ICQ or any other messager, that will be more natural and convenient
Back to a point i made on another thread, everyone is different, i see absolutely no problems with large age gap if the woman in question is mature enough, hell i'm 36 and i still dont know when i'm going to grow up, more to the point i dont particularly want to, so ner...
The girl i'm going back for is only 19, but she sure doesn't seem it, in UK this could never work, i'm not even saying its going to, but i will say she is unlike anyone i have met in blighty of a similar age, i believe they have to grow up fast, she knows she must earn money (as a waitress) to get by - in England - daddy would still be paying for everything.
bigted - i don't want to grow up either! but every now and olya comes out with a phrase like "you're the man, you decide" or whatever, so i have to be a grown up at least sometimes! i know that girls here really want a man that they can lean on when they want to. i remember when she said once "i don't want a 36 year old child!" but it helps that i can be a kid most of the time! i've had such a great two months here (well nearly two months) with her that i can definately concur that the age gap really isn't an issue. and girls here generally prefer guys who are older, though i think this is more true the younger the girl is, strangely... /pete