What about use without faith, are we doomed to be unhappy forever, I think not. It is good to hear any FSU womans views arty and I thankyou for sharing them here. But for Toad, who beat up on you so bad to make you hate all western women so bad. There are good and bad women (and men) in all countries. I know some very nice women here but cannot seem to hook up with one myself, not a real good one. I have been burned by a Russian girl but I still like Russian women. They are very feminine and meeting them in this situation being what it is, are very open about what they want, and I like that. No messing around, no games and no, oh I think its to soon crap.
Thanks for welcoming me! I've been to some 11 countries of this world (mostly due to my work!) and I know that basically people are the same whereever you go. Though there is a certain difference, maybe even so called National Character. But U know, we all have the same needs, desires, hopes. We all want to be secure in our partner. What makes him/her faithful, forgiving, kind? There must be a foundation. Even grass has roots, U know... If one is only after looks. That's a pity, they fade away so quickly! Besides, people simply get tired of one another and get bored. What's LOVE then?
When you don't get bored and tyred, because you are in love. You are together for many reasons, similar life goals, simialar intrests, but above all love. I think that if you are repeatedly becoming bored with partner after partner, maybe you do not know what love is, maybe you have non to give. It seems an increasing problem in the modern world.
Why do people who have been married for over 50 yrs and are gray and wrinkled still give the same loving smile to one another when their eyes meet each others? My grandfather and grandmother were exactly like that. If I could put that in a bottle and sell it, I would be a millionaire. I was fortunate enough to live with them for a few months when I was a teenager. They were very religious people whose lives were dedicated to God and to each other.Every day I had to attend church with them before school started. Every evening was the rosary. For a teenager it wasn't the most exciting thing that I wanted to do but I'm a little older and wiser now.When my grandmother died, It wasn't too much longer before my Grandfather died also. He told me that he preferred to be where she was. To them they were just as beautiful to one another as they were 60 yrs. earlier. They were never tired or bored with each other, for 60 yrs. they couldn't get enough of each other. I would have to say that was love!
I think that people not get tired or bored with each other, people change and some people can't accept that, they remember how their partners looked several years ago or what they thought, and when they see these changes they either don't like them or can't accept the fact that their honey changed...and so they leave. OK this is my point of view, but people can't stay the same all their lives, that's obvious.
Dale, Amen. You've got that absolutely correct! I'm so glad you've had such a good example of life-long Love. That's what it meant to be. Hand in hand all life together on earth. And forever - in Heaven! That's original God's plan for us. When people mess up with "occasional" partners, they waste their lives. So many people are afraid of marriage today being afraid of commitment. They prefer just to cohabit, they think it makes their lives easier. But does it really? Just look at all those single mothers! In some countries 25% of kids are born out of wedlock. Is it normal?
Arta and everyone else,
Integrity, honesty or any other human character virtue is NOT an exclusive domain of any particular religious faith, no matter how long, hard or loudly the ones who practice or preach those religious faiths claim it is.
Amen...:))
Of course beauty fades, but in a lifelong marriage, you do not notice it, it is so gradual that the person always looks the same, as it is with our children. I have just proposed and been accepted. Now this may sound a little callous and predictable, but on my computer calender at work, I have filled in every day for the next 2 years a reminder for me to tell her that I love her. Sometimes we forget and we start to take people for granted, so I have reminders pencilled in to tell her I love her every day and at random spaces to buy a present or flowers to show I appreciate her. This is a bit abnormal for me as I am not a planner. Maybe you all think this is a crap idea, never done it before, so time will tell
LOL,
Someone shoot Tradman in the ass with a beebee gun..:))
We need him back here on Earth, not up there lost up in Cloud 9, lol...
I doubt you will ever need to write those things in a planner, mate.
Look at her face every morning when she wakes up next to you.
you will know if you're going to last depending on whether you feel like buying each other a present or hitting each other with a frying pan when she/he is not looking, lol....forget the planner!
agree Toad, but sometimes we get caught up in living and forget these things, I hope I never need to remind myself, but I never want to start a downward spiral that gets out of control,
However, you are quite right, I am up on cloud 9, and only 3 days till next visit, I am so happy it's nauseating.lol
Trad,
It is a terrible thing you are doing, automating your affection like that. Could you send me instructions on how to enter those reminders into the calendar? lol
May your happiness always exceed your expectations. Best wishes for both of you.
I'm dying right now. I have to wait until October to meet my lady.
Women have recently discovered that the male brain can be considered as consisting of a right half and a left half.
In the left half nothing is right, and in the right half nothing is left.
Now that I've got your undivided attention I'll also add my 2 cents worth regarding your questions.
I am convinced that the level of social security, to a certain degree feminism as well as the standard of wealth all have contributed to an entirely different outlook towards life of the so-called western woman if compared to her eastern sister.
I was tempted to also add the word ‘sophistication’ into the above but this could be interpreted as wrong or insulting, and it’s maybe valid to a lesser degree in any case so I’ve left it out.
However, what it boils down to is that ‘life’ is quite different in these respective parts of the world, and even then, because of the size of these parts, they differ amoung themselves even.
No offense, but eastern women work, for reason they simply have to. Many western women also work, granted, but they do so driven by very different motives. A career, an addition to income, a better car/house, helping to afford kids to a private school or whatever, but not survival. A real ‘need’ is often missing, but an increase in status or social acceptance is more than often the drive.
Then add the near-equal male/female balance across the age-range in the west, rather different than the one in the east.
In the interest of keeping a long story short, from the above one could conclude several things, and I’ll tell you what I think, summarized & nutshelled. Oh, of course they are generalizations, on which exceptions galore.
- Russian men can pick & choose hence have a lesser need for courteous behaviour towards women, and promiscuity flourishes.
- Western women have a lesser need to spoil their men hence don’t, backed by various levels of divorce-laws, and the divorce-statistics show.
Both statements have sex embedded as the common denominator, undeniably one of the potential bonders between the sexes. More eastern women advertise themselves than western men are looking for them – does that not answer your questions Arta?
Next to the thousands droolingly joining the queue’s for sex-tourism also many men genuinely looking for their ideal exist, and I’d say these you will find here more than those tourists.
All have their different reasons, the offer is bigger than the demand, and those who have visited will find that the hearsay about the good qualities of eastern women to a large extent is true.
Now read the above joke again, but try to place yourself in a western male’s shoes – still funny?
Keep in mind that they earn the lion’s share of the income of the family. Most if not all is usually spent by their better half, a half which tends to treat him different than he would like or deserve, or, please note, different than an eastern women would do.