Kaiserdag,,,, we don’t disagree,,,,,, in fact I like what you wrote.
I had been in contact with dh7 thru Pms before his trip, talking about some of the cities in Ukraine when we started talking about success rates. I told him the stats I found from 2008, 4 men out of 100 will get married, but only 1 will stay married after 3 years. The 2 and 3 years is meant to represent the time it takes to get a green card, not how long they should date. He will find out in 2 or 3+ years if his wife to be, stays after receiving her green card. The true test, is the test of time,,, and you don’t get that after one vacation.
I worry about couples who spend most of their time on vacations,,, when everything is sunshine and roses,,, of course they are happy, but what happens if the good times end,,, will she stay by your side??? “taking a chance on her” is right,,,, and you won’t know until after she gets her greencard.
“In my online experience; it took me less than 3 months to go from relationship to relationshit “
I have that beat,,,,, I had cause for worry with the girl’s very first words,,,,, but took a year to confirm it.
Danny42:
“finding Russia was the best thing that ever happened to me.evern the bad that I endured .to have such a fantastic wife and son I know fsu / Russian /Ukraine is just the jewel of the world”
Back when I claimed to have a girlfriend from Ukraine, you constantly ridiculed me for having a girl from the Ukraine! You kept it up for over a year! YOU,,,, danny were the biggest hater of Ukraine!!
Then,,, I had to inform danny, that my girl/ex girl was Russian and not Ukrainian!!
Most of the HATE speech about Ukraine stopped!! WHY?????
Is your whole online life focused on being 100% opposite of mine??
You don’t have any principles of your own do you,, you don’t have any opinions of your own,,,, you just need to be 100% contrary to me!!
Are you that threatened by me,, or are you so jealous of me and Americans in general???
LR, yes you are right about the profiles, truth in advertising is not a concept well understood by women from Ukraine. We had an amazing time but I did have the feeling that she was hiding something, and I was right. She has a 7 year old son, which to me is no problem. She was obviously very nervous about telling me and worried that I would not want to be with her. I explained to her however that she needs to be honest about her real situation in the future otherwise how do I know what else she is not telling me the truth about. It seems to be sorted for now but yes I'm closer to the 1 out of 30 maybe than 1 out of 100. Once she told me and I let her know it was not a problem she was way more relaxed so at one level there is some "honesty" to the situation.
Have to see how the next meeting goes and if as well as the last one the I'll spend Christmas with her also.
They do know smoking is frowned upon, and she was telling me that just recently in Ukraine there have been more smoking restrictions. She doesn't "smoke" but one night we were out at a nightclub and she did want hookah once and since we were having an amazing time I tried it also even though I don't smoke at all. Even the restaurants where smoking is not allowed you can have hookah at your table, so in a way I can see why the girls do not think of it as "smoking".
Weather was actually not that hot the week I was there Aug 2-11, there were some hot days but actually one night was quite chilly almost. They are having a heat wave this week however, meanwhile is actually cold in Toronto today. (14C)
If you go to Crimea Yalta is way better than Alushta, we spent most of our time in Yalta at the Oreanda hotel, she loved it, paying for two rooms wasn't cheap but I didn't come over to nickle and dime what was a vacation for myself so we stayed there. Its interesting the beach in Yalta is a stone beach so forget about making sand castles on the beach but the water is crystal clear right to the waters edge because of no sand floating in the water.
The hotel in Alushta was a huge disappointment in comparison, it was ok but just ok and the only place I stayed in Ukraine with no WiFi in the rooms! I had one night alone in Simferopol when I arrived and stayed at Ukraine Hotel, the lobby is very nice, the rooms are clean but they need to do a bit of an upgrade on the room furniture, etc.
Beds are crap in all hotels in Ukraine, the Oreanda was the best but still not up to western standards, having said that its a European issue as I've had worse in Germany and the UK for that matter. I find it very odd that this is such a widespread problem.
Coffee is horrible in Ukraine!! :) I now know what people mean about having "mud" in your coffee...
Roads are interesting, there are sections of brand new pavement but even those are very uneven sometimes. When I got back I now appreciate how smooth our roads are here. Drivers are insane and pass each other with very little distance between the oncoming traffic. Couple close calls but the drivers from the other side slow down or pull further over so it worked out.
One thing I did notice on the drive from Odessa to Simferopol is that there are actually very many what look like new or very recent service stations along the route. I read horror stories about washroom facilities but at least the ones I stopped at they were as good or better than at home. The nightclub we went to one night charged 10 UAH to use the WC which Irina was not impressed with at all :)
Unfortunately the same fast food lardo epidemic exists in Ukraine, you do see tons of very hot girls but there are just as many or more overweight and unattractive ones also. Probably more overweight than what I see in Toronto.
What was funny to see is how many of the hot girls have another equally hot girl taking pictures of each other in the poses you see on these profiles. After having looked at so many of these profiles seeing them in "production" was interesting. The women in Ukraine who take care of themselves love having their picture taken and they are natural models it seems, and at least in Yalta it was clear that if they noticed you looking at them instead of getting some cold "go away" look which is the standard fare in Canada, they actually often times smile and strike some "interesting" poses. That was my experience anyway.
----"He will find out in 2 or 3+ years if his wife to be, stays after receiving her green card’ LR, there is no guaranties, just pre-nup it and roll the dices. I didn’t cuase, I lost the feeling.
“I worry about couples who spend most of their time on vacations” agree! Because you will not learn anything real about her on vacation….Here is a story …while her husband was out of town on business, she left her kids with her mother and was” up all night to get lucky”.
Congrats to you Danny for success, it takes skills from both parties to resolve conflicts and maturity to keep a happy relationship going for years.
“hell only have 4 months to know if she is the one .....time flies when your having fun”
That true because too much time apart made us act like control freaks. Thanks to media and wanting to know everything, a few skeletons in the closet appeared; follow by doubts and the end.
Looking back at this she would felt the same I felt, if she was digging on me for dirt. We are not perfect we all make mistakes; we all have issues and weakness. I think she was too young and I was naïve. Accepting the hard true after a fairy tale story is difficult to swallow but not to digest. On recent talks we admitted that we started as a relationshit, but that changed to relationship for the following 3 visits.
Believe me that having a worthless relationshit for fun is easy, at any time and at any place. For me it’s a waste of time and money; and therefore, I am reluctant to pay any more for FSU dating wed sites.
If I ever have another opportunity, in the FSU or in the main land; it will be more like a business transaction. Hopefully with time, doing my role as a husband, friend and lover, she will love me the same as I do.
Dh7 if you drove in Ukraine? If you did you are THE MAN! But if not you are a survivor.
1st question after Privet is, do you have children, 2nd are you married, and 3rd are you dating ….
Back in my young days a meet few girls that lie about kids and everything else in between. But in Ukraine that girl a met ask me within a few minutes of conversation if you 2 y/o” is a problem”. I read profiles that do not mention kids but found pictures of their kids on VK. Honesty is the best policy
Dh7,,, most of the women I’ve contacted in person, were opposite of their profile! I’ve thought about searching for the worst possible woman,,,, maybe then I’ll find a good one?
As long as you are willing to accept her child, it will be a real plus to her and just maybe she will be a little more honest and sincere about relations.
I’ve noticed the beds to be poor too,,,, but mostly the single or twin beds. The small beds are more like hammocks,,, you sink down into them. When you book a suite and get a king or queen sized bed, they will be a little firmer.
I don’t drink coffee, so I don’t know,,, but I thought they had great tea,,, or “chai”. I liked the forest berry tea.
The ground in southern Ukraine seems to be sandy,,,, a very poor base for blacktop. Did you notice the “roller coasters” between Nikolaev and Kherson? Did you also notice the helicopter junkyard? An area full of old behemoths,,, like Air Force 2 which is a Russian made helicopter.
A few of the girls I wrote to in my early years are still on some websites,,,, when I spot a photo of them, the first thing I notice is how fat they got!! One of the two girls I’m thinking of is a full fledged agency girl,, a Aweb chat whore! I think us foreign men are feeding them too well?!!!!
We did do a fair bit of video chat on here at first but now we only use Skype and email. I had a good amount of minutes left and the site here refunded them no problem.
I do wonder if some of these girls make a living chatting to people. I have my profile turned off now but when I had it on I'd get constantly messaged by 20 year olds which were awesome to look at but clearly it would not go anywhere.
The girl I met is 30, quite attractive but old enough that she isn't thinking she has forever before she finds someone either. I think any guy over 40 who is talking to someone on here in there early 20s or younger is delusional if they think it has a remote chance of working out.
Heard of the ideal age for a woman formula? It goes half the mans age plus 7 years.. so if you are 48 its 24+7 = 31, only works if you are under 60 however...
Her profile is deleted, we talk every day on Skype plus emails, etc.
She still needs to take English lessons which she is starting next week and now I am planning my next visit to Ukraine.
I really think if you are doing the very long distance dating thing if you are not having pretty much daily contact with the person it is a bad sign.
There are exceptions of course but with how well connected things are now there is really no reason why someone can't send you a quick email or IM at the very least. If they can't spare 30 seconds of their day for you, then clearly you are not a priority.
Dh7,,,,, getting the girl off of the website is an important step,,,, but have you looked for her on other websites besides the one you found her on? I knew one girl that was on 47 different websites!!
She was on a couple other sites, but then so was I so who am I to say f-all about that?
If she is talking to anyone else not sure where she finds the time to, time will tell.
We had our first meeting, she seems very genuine so until something happens that says she isn't I'm going with that its the real thing. We have two more meetings planned this year already, and if she introduces me to her parents and family like she says she wants to I kinda doubt someone who is a scam artist does that. She wants me to be there for Orthodox Christmas, don't think she is shuffling between me and someone else.
You can't be totally suspicious of everyone or you will end up being alone, the safest option is to do just that, everything good in life has some risk to it.
My experience so far is way better than the gold digger I was seeing in Toronto last year that I met on match.com. If you want a real crap experience try going on dozens of useless dates from there.
My experience talking to women on here and the one I met has been far better. I totally thought at first that this was all BS, how could someone that hot actually want to talk to me, and be nice to me, and actually want to be with me? Seemed too good to be true, but for me at least so far it is.
I did not however think of anyone under 28 or so, if you go for the super hot looking 20 year old and you get scammed, I think you get what you deserve.
She was on a couple other sites, but then so was I so who am I to say f-all about that? If she is talking to anyone else not sure where she finds the time to, time will tell.” …….Nicely said dh7……A profile is easy a free and with #’s there is more probabilities. The only place that matters in FSU are Odnoklassniki, VK and FB ( maybe google+). Heck, I believe that,there are also fake profiles of me out there too. Anyway, to know if the profile is real or that is she available she must find time for all that video chatting.
I believe the FSU like any other place there are long distance friendship, but Long distance relationship are not normal in FSU especially around young people. In Ukraine, couples from different part of the country quickly settle together or get married. ( you don’t know that person till you live with her/him ) Danny or Rick can elaborate more on this…but from my experience months of separations led to suspicions or conflicts.
After reading upon experiences, regardless of how much commitment is shown in Long Distance Relationship; it takes both parties to handle this in a maturely and capable way.
DH,, you say she “was” on other sites,,, does that mean she is no longer on them?? If so, then you also need to be off of the sites,,, if you think this is the one?!
A woman from Russia once told me: Verify first,,,, trust later! I always laugh when I remember that,, because she was one of the biggest liars!
I think our relationship is past worrying if she is on another site or not. If I am spending Christmas with her and her family I really doubt she is having some other guy meet her family the following week.
The next couple visits and I will know. I think this is an example of where if I was paranoid accusing her of being on other sites its where the relationship could be ruined.
Some of the sites she is on are clearly copies or links to the site she took down as some of then do not work now. She actually told me she is on other sites requested to be removed but the site did not do so. I believe her.
All this time, I though this was an American phrase till…………Suzanne Massie, a writer on Russia met with President Ronald Reagan many times between 1984 and 1987.[1] She taught him the Russian Proverb, Doveryai no Proveryai (Trust but Verify) advising him that "The Russians like to talk in proverbs. It would be nice of you to know a few. You are an actor – you can learn them very quickly".[2] The proverb was adopted as a signature phrase by Reagan, who subsequently used it frequently when discussing U.S. relations with the Soviet Union.' Wikipedea
So knowing a few Russian Proverbs like this,can help built a relationship and not a relationsh*t !!!
I just got back from my second visit with the girl I met on here, went to her home town, met several of her friends and had a great time. Its surprising that while I only speak limited Russian all the people I met were extremely friendly. Stayed at the Muscat Hotel in Kherson, it was good but only misinformation on here is that only a few of the staff speak english and even those its not very good.
Going back again for Christmas and New years and meeting her son for the first time which is a huge step for her, I met her mother this trip also.
There are a lot of scammers on these sites, even the girl I am with admitted to me that she would often talk to people who she would never consider meeting and if they chose to send her stuff she wasn't going to say no.
She has a friend who is married and is on a dating site, they just look at it as a second income. You have to actually come to Ukraine to understand the mentality, you pay for everything, even grade school, if you don't slip the teacher some cash your kid fails. They don't see it as being "immoral" as we do, some are worse than others of course.
If you want to avoid being scammed set a floor on the age of around 28, ideally 30. At 30 they are much more likely to actually want a relationship. If you are talking to some super hot 22 year old and you are 50 years old and 50 pounds overweight, you can be certain she is playing you. Use your brain!!
Also, it makes me laugh reading all these profiles and how almost none of the women smoke or drink, they almost all do. Mine had on hers that she likes to knit and bake cookies which I knew was BS and we had a laugh about it.
During my stay at the Muscat Hotel, (2010) everyone spoke English from fluent to good enough. Receptionist, bartender, waitress and waiters. They worked such hellish hours, that I would expect a fast turnover of help.
I had an extended conversation with one of the receptionists,,, but that was after 4 double shots of Jägermeister.
One little hiccup in the conversations,,, was with a waiter,,,, he asked me if I wanted another shot,,, and I said: Why not? Then, I asked how to say “why not” in Russian. I didn’t recognize anything that he said,,, and I know the word (why) in Russian,, I then asked him if he was speaking Ukrainian,,,, and he said: No?!
“Why” in Russian is like,,,, boos-nah. I’ve heard that word many times in movies and from my ex-wife. There are two possibilities,,,, “why not” could be one word in Russian or,,, the two languages have blended or morphed through the years. I’ve heard from Canadians many times, that people from France can’t understand anyone from Quebec that speaks Canadian French.
MS,,, I don’t remember if that’s what the waiter said,,, it could be. Where I got “boos nah” from, was my fiancée Irina, now ex-wife. We were watching an old movie, “Spy’s Like Us” towards the end of the movie, they launch the,,,,, “eye cee bee em” (in code),,,, and the female Russian soldier says: Boosnah boosnah??? Irina translated this,, plus it was displayed at the bottom of the TV screen. That was during the summer of 99’,,, our 1st or 2nd evening together at home,,, so I remember that night well, but it was over 14 years ago.
For years now, I have been searching for that movie and the Hunt for Red October ,,,, but the stores don’t seem to carry it. The next time I get to town I’ll order both of them.
If anyone has it,,, the scene is towards the end of the movie, you won’t miss it.
How long were you married to her for? Divorce happen for many reasons of course but if any were related to cultural differences it be interesting to know.
I am finding my relationship with Irina (there are many irina's in Ukraine) very interesting. At first she told me she is not interested in getting married or moving from from Ukraine but now she wants to visit Canada next next spring and see how she likes it.