dansing, if you are asking about russian men...well...they are different, but my experience is that every decent man of my age i met was already married. I have a couple of male friends who are not but they don't have any intentions to marry either, the so called old bachelors.
As for the foreign men coming to the FSU, women on dating sites have a special classification
of them (writers, key board romeos, sex tourists, players, those who is willing to marry, cowards etc.), other women just don't think about foreign men or are very sceptical about the whole thing of online dating.
Sorry for misunderstanding, ragingbull, my answer is no. May be we mean different things speaking about agencies...I don't use marriage agencies as such, only dating sites and I was never paid for writing letters and wouldn't even consider it. Perhaps it depends on the agency but i never heard about cases like that from other girls too. Who could force us to write letters to someone we don't like?
May be it's my mistake...lol...but i can't write to more than one at a time and keep being sincere.:)
"Who could force us to write letters to someone we don't like?"
Money would do that, Molly. It is not conclusive, as I don't have any proof, but there is is circumstancial evidence. Olga will not like this, but I paid for many letters to many women. After a while, I learned that asking for an email address and a phone number early in the relationship will save money in letters.
I always had an answer in a timely manner to the agency letters. I would think that some of the women would be too busy and not go to the agency to answer the letter or be not interested and not write, at least not in a timely manner. But, that has never been the case.
All relationships starts from square one. Progress, we can expect from the meeting. Yet, the letters progress to talking about marriage fairly quickly. Perhaps, that is to incite the man to visit. At the meeting, reality sets in and you still have to start from square one. That tells me that the letters were probably written, with or without the woman's consent, by another.
"May be it's my mistake...lol...but i can't write to more than one at a time and keep being sincere.:)"
I am like that too, Molly. No matter how many times I read it, or how many times I was warned, I always wrote to one woman and visited one woman. I do, however have back ups. The back ups are told they are just that: back ups.