I will see where it all goes. I had hand surgery today, out of action for up to 3 months.
I had bad carpal tunnel syndrome with some main nerve damage on my right main hand.
No possibility of travel until after x-mas now.
Can't even drive for 4 to 6 weeks!
Hand feels dead, but still hospital anaesthetic wearing off. I am bandaged up and my hand is in a sling.
I won't be grabbbing any bull by the horns for quite a while!
You should use the gel-mouse pads. They will help you out. I had wrist surgeries on both wrists when I was a kid...
... yup, you could have had it much worse. Imagine when you were a teenager and if you had to live with both wrists bandaged up after surgery - at the same time. Oh the frustration. lol! ;0
Good luck with your recovery Aussie....trying to figure how you typed your post...tell me you didn't peck away
one key at a time with your........... only good finger????? :))))))) Couldn't help myself!!!!!
I wont be going anywhere. I can't lift heavy suitcases for at least 3 months, lots of physio to do once the stitches come out in 11 days time. Hand hurts like a bitch when I try to move it..its wrapped in heavy bandage and my arm is in a sling.
I am very sceptical. The Krivoy Rog girl, herein abbreviated as the K.R girl, I really don't know much about..zero about her family despite me asking a number of times and it does not answer these questions( thats a red flag ), a zoom up of 2 photos of her taken 2 years ago, shows rings on both her hands,including one on the right finger reserved for a wedding band in mainly Ukraine tradition (but not necessarily, but strong possibility) and she claims she has never been married and her beauty, that is unusual she is never been married. She claims to live on her own in a one room apartment thats hers in city centre of Krivoy Rog.
She has never asked me for money or told me how much she earns or complains about life there and she plays competition darts as a sport. She writes only once a week or less, sometimes only twice a month, does so from an internet cafe in Krivoy Rog, IP trace confirms all e-mail has come from K.R within a batch of network reserved addresses (Class C reserved private network IP range for Pretcher net, an Ukraine based ISP in Dneproprovisk operating internet cafe backbone in K.R),the IP main address does not change and e-mailer is always Microsoft Outlook and she has a free e-mail account via pretcher net.
She has only asked one thing and it took a long time, a professional competition darts set that can not be bought in K.R as it is way too expensive from Harrows Darts of England.
It has a retail price of at least $110 usd which is way to expensive to be stocked in K.R..thats nearly a months salary there.
I had sources and got this top pro set for $35 usd and imported it to Oz.
Total cost to get, post to her all up is $70 aud, only thing I give her as a gift.
I asked her to send me picture of her holding my darts set gift, to prove she got it..I will wait and see, its kind of like simple verification of her if she does it.
It will be at least another 10 days before it gets there.
This is one way I am testing the water with her, small outlay for gift, see if she replies and prove to me she has it...if not reply its probably a scam or non-genuine or if it asks for more, then probably a user and gold digger..then decision is easy to dump and not waste money and suffer minimal loss and not go on any personal visit..save thousands and not waste my time!
There is simply not enough info I have on her to justify a personal visit at the moment..if it were to happen a Private Investigator from Russian detective etc. would have to be hired for back ground check and report and few days surveillance of her..I am suspicious it could be a low key scam run by her with husband/boyfriend for things..theres no record or any picture of her in a wide internet search of scammer data bases. She has been on the internet about 4 years, had 3 old profiles with different agencies about 4 years old with younger photos of her,all same group and a newer profile, 2 years old where I meet her with older photos and she sent me newer photos and date info, camera type etc. is embedded in them, so I know they are not more than 1 year old and the older 4 year old photos have the hidden date info in them as well..it is all photo of the same women.
I have really analysed this with confirmed photo dates and years taken over last 4 years so I have a time line on this woman. Something tells me she has a partner in the background and plays the internet low key to get things from idiots from the west..I am probably one of those to but the sending of a gift is part of my acid test on her, done cheaply and remotely.
I think, if theres something confirmed odd about her it will reveal itself..I don't trust any women, specially those from internet. The K.R girl came from a free dating site..thats likely to be a bad thing to.A trip there is looking unlikely.
This will be the last FSU girl I write, if it goes pear shaped or wrong or my gut senses continued bad, FSU girls will be permanently off my agenda...the Thai, Filipino or Asian girl will become my target as beemer suggested or go to the local Australian dating scene by internet etc.
FSU girls on the internet are a very high risk proposition..risk of scam or relationship disaster.
It is really a very expensive and risky way of meeting a woman!
Many guys here will think I am over paraniod...but there are far too many horror stories coming out involving FSU women, Western guys and money and relationship scams.
Aussie - why not search now for Thai / Filipino girls now?
I am not one to disregard any of your concerns. Yes, lots of us guys have gotten burned by the immoral women of the FSU, but I won't slam the hope that gems do exist there. I agree the entire ordeal can be as frustrating and depressing when things don't go right - and that does happen for the good guys too.
Hang in there -- as long as hope remains so does life...
'There is simply not enough info I have on her to justify a personal visit at the moment'
Isn't this the girl you said has been on and off for 2 years???????
Mate...from your description about girl,0 about her family, writes maybe 2-3 times a month, doesn't answer questions, asked for and got gift, my God....what does it take, a sledge hammer to your head. If you continue,
it will be another 2-3 years you are writing to this girl. It is standard answer now from guys, "she has never asked me for money", that is in past, women have evolved, now are they are looking for different things, they are more devious now. I hope I am wrong about your KR girl but doesn't look very promising to me.
The problem is when you get to the point that you are THAT mistrusting of her that you question anything she says or does it may be time to get out of there. It's just not healthy to feel like that all of the time. I know because I went through the same things with the girl I met a few times from Ukraine (which I spoke of in an older thread) I got so mistrusting of her and every little thing she did near the end that the whole thing just imploded on me. There we're a lot of other factors for it going bad too but this really was a big part of the problem too.
If she is not giving you reasons to trust her either then that's also another good reason you may want to just end it with her too.
Just my 2 cents Aussieman from a guy who has put his trust and money on the line for a few FSU girls in the last few years and got himself royally stomped on...
Guys your criticism is constructive and welcome. I have sat down, looked back on all my e-mail records on this K.R fsu girl and in the time of correspondence which is very long, what I have as personal info on her really amounts to nothing..I should know far more about her personal life, background and family and I don't. Theres mention of a translator friend she has in one of her past letters, last year, a "Miss Olga" that helps her by translating English letters and I wonder if at times its this "Olga" that replies to me (maybe with or without her knowledge or in collusion together as a subtle scammer team..who can be sure but its suspicious, maybe she is even this Olga pretending to be someone else using stolen photos..who knows), as sometimes her letters are a little bit too good, dressed up with deliberate spelling mistakes or miss spelled words as the structure content of the english grammar sometimes changes with the letters..its subtle but theres obvious differences although the IP address is the same for e-mail and its been trace routed to K.R in Ukraine, many times.
I have just checked my personal stupidity barometer.Its arrow is pointing somewhere between stupid and very stupid!
It is on the surface a sham FSU contact..its either not serious, subtlely scams for gifts(informed Ukraine scammers know asking for money over the internet does not work anymore) or pure scammer who maybe does not exist for real, using stolen photos of a good looking women or its part of scam team..who knows...the letters are not committed or informative enough to be an honest fsu women looking for a man.
I should not have sent it a competition darts set..I will not get a reply from her or it in all likelehood..the expense was really sweet F.A, very little and a lesson learnt cheaply thank God! She or it has extracted something it wanted from me but thats it..no more..the plug is pulled!
The FSU is not for me.
Guys my saga for search of a mail order bride from the FSU is over.
I am going to stick to my half of the World..Asia if I choose to start looking for a girl on the internet again but in the mean time, I will recover and work on future career and real life current problems...not dreamy scammer fake FSU girls anymore!
The FSU will work for some and some might find happiness with a girl from these countries but for most it will disappoint, each to there own likes, chances and risk..no guarantees in life of success but I agree you do it or you don't and you live with the consequences.
Russian meeting place did a scam assessment on her, they think she rates 3.5 out of 5 chances its either a scam or not serious..rated her a high scam risk.
Heres another thing to bend the needle past the maximum stupidity point on my barometer..it is only 25 and I am 43..stupid huh..I must be having a mid-life crisis to even contact such a young thing, a generation apart from me...it can not possibly be interested in an old cock like me, perhaps my wallet but not my body...I will eat my own words here..I have woken up and smelt the coffee and tasted it and the milk is off, tastes like shit!
Apal,,I am not depressed, I am relieved to have made the decision this weekend not to continue with Miss K.R and quit entirely contact with FSU girls.
The advice of people here and other sources has contributed to preventing a costly personal visit to see Miss K.R as that would have likely been a major disappointment and that would make me depressed.
I think most men who do travel to the FSU and don't succeed, will not post there experiences in public for fear of ridicule and shame..a costly failure to the FSU and being scammed can be very depressing to many men, it can devastate emotionally and financially too!
Miss K.R is getting the flick..I reckon once she gets her goods ( gift ),she will move on herself and I won't have to shaft her..she will do it first by going silent!
I will keep the forum informed but I won't hold my breathe over Miss K.R anymore!
Aussie, 43 and 25 is pretty standard fare nowadays when finding a foreign bride. In Colombia it was normal for 40-50 year old girls to marry girls 18-21. Believe it or not.
Of course the same girls are not the bikini dream models that dominiate the FSU marriage agency billboards and adverts. Those are girls you steer clear of if you want to have a good experience. As I have mentioned, a very pretty girl with dream like qualities is going to know she is this in her local town or large city, and her self-worth accellerates on this self-discovery -- much more so if she has joined a marriage agency.
I have yet, to meet one very sincere, sweet, modest and humble girl who has any hint of dream-like qualities. More are cold, self-oriented, narcissitive, greedy, manipulative, and vindictive than the gold-diggers in my country. All of them, can seem very sweet when they think you are a millionare with a mansion and can offer them a life where they can shop all day long and travel anywhere in the world - and no longer have to work.
Is it true love? Of course not, it's legalized, long-term prostitution. Yet its been like this all around the world since the dawn of civilization and marriage agencies just accelerate them to want the very best, when so many suitors are trying their best at offering it to the very same cute girl you are writing to...
Apal, I really would love to know how FSU girls think what love and a relationship is!
All I hear is brains that have mentality that would put the best Western girl gold diggers to shame and everything for them is motivated by the buck.
It really is a sad state of affairs were say the Ukrainian culture and the modern young to mid aged Ukraina women, lives for the love of money and invents new ways (often dishonest towards men ) to extract it out of them.
Are there really any good and trustworthy Ukraine or FSU girls around anymore..have there ever been any from dating/agency sites.
I am not trying to denigrate there culture but all you hear about is us western guys being taken for a ride and ripped off by these vixens..its all negative, is there really any positive.
Just what high percentage are bad and what low percentage are good, honest trustworthy girls.
I think the majority of guys that post here are good guys that are lonely and only want someone as a partner whom they can love and trust!
I think in this modern age in the developed and developing countries womens morals and integrity have gone down hill..its a world wide phenomenom..it just seems o.k to rip off a man and hurt his feelings and life in the process and the girls really don't care about what they have done and can sleep easily at night having ruined the life of a man.
Where are the good girls???
I liked the look of my K.R girl, but thats all it was..the integrity was not there to find and I made a small mistake picking her on the basis of looks..she is not a super model but she is very attractive, tall, slim and fookable...you could have many a good night with her but the price would be really too high!
I think a lot of guys who go to the FSU do get "royally stomped on" as Globus says.
Sure you have the few success stories, but most guys will leave sore and disappointed although very enlightened and some keep going over to the FSU again and again to be royally stomped on or perhaps its for sex trips..get an expensive fook with a girl from behind the iron curtain, real exotic, erotica stuff..who knows or they just love being stomped on and humiliated!
I am not disappointed about abandoning the FSU and my K.R girl..there was nothing to abandon but a false dream based on a girls body and getting in the sack with her..there was never going to be any future or love this way..sure me being the 43 year old fart would love a 25 year old girl but she would piss off and dump my ass within 3 years of coming here if it got that far, for a younger and better looking man after she had got the P.R stamp ( permanent residence stamp ) in her pass port...marriages between forty something western men and 20 something FSU girls or any girl will not last..it will live fast and die hard leaving a broken heart and an empty wallet along the way..this is fact of life and has been for time immemorial.
I have woken up here and tasted the coffee and it tastes awful!
What a stupe I am..wake up aussieman..leave the girls in the FSU to themselves, find another Asian chick instead again ( I had one of those with my Indian ex, it can be classed Asian )..then get divorced and cleaned out again..life goes on!
Aussie41, I was out last night with a girl more than 20 years younger than me, on our second date. She is really into me. Too good to be true - no. At the next table were two typical hot Ukrainian females. Drop dead gorgeous and no doubt as cold as ice. My one is very short, pretty, but a little overweight. Someone who loves to read books, ironically works as a full time manicurist, yet dresses down western style. My expense on her after two dates has now reached $2. No darts sets! Her English is very limited and my Russian is very bad considering the time I have spent here. Actually, this may be good. Like most men, I talk too much and say too many dumb things.
I have several other prospective partners, maybe the darts will hit the bulls eye. As my mentor here says, once you have one, they all want you. Is this not true always, such as when seeking a job? No employer wants an unemployed person.
After Ukraine I will try Thailand for the first time and can afterwards make an honest comparison.
There are several free Russian language sites to meet partners which no one seems to mention. In Kiev, from such a site, I met two out and out liars and scammers and no one else, but here I have met mostly genuine females using a free site.
I guess my advice would be - if you have never been to the FSU, don’t come. If you are addicted to gorgeous FSU women, deal with your addiction as best you can. Often finding a second one is a bigger disaster than the first time! Stan Laurel hit pay dirt - his first Russian was crazy, his second brought him happiness for the rest of his life. And she loved him beyond the grave and managed his fan club.
The cynical do well here - love em and leave em. Soft hearted romantic guys will get taken to the cleaners every time. One must play the game by their rules. The Marquis of Queensbury was not a Russian.
Hey Aussie you got stomped on for a darts set. I have paid 1,000 times more than (not joking) that for almost three years of entertainment and unusual adventures. Like being in a cult. I had to do my own deprogramming. Most friends and relatives don't want to know you once your marriage with your young FSUW hits a brick wall. You are a lucky man indeed to pull back from the brink before jumping over the cliff. Here is a thought also - many such people are jealous of those with a young bride and will advise you to end your marriage. So keep that thought in mind when deciding whether or not to kick the young schemer to the kerb.
But I may stay here, who knows. Plenty of guys do. It is much better than taking 'em Westward Ho. I think I am onto how to get a relationship happening after many wasted months. Do not use Elena's Models and do not trust Ukraine Wife Now.
This board is the best and least censored about Russian Women I have ever seen. Congratulations to the Moderators for the courage to let the truth be told, as each guy sees it. As Pontius Pilate wisely said "What is truth?" Best of all, there is an absence of strident females trying to destory the message board as happens elsewhere.
Sorry you have not had much luck in FSU but why is it that because you have struck out others will do the same???
We are all individuals and very diferent, guys go after different girls, whether it be looks, brains, body....
If someone gets taken to the cleaners it is their problem, nobody is forcing them to do anything. If the brain is working properly, there should not be a problem. We are not playing by their rules, we are playing by which head
is doing most if not all of the thinking.
You do have a point that is true everywhere, if you are with a girl, other girls seem interested in you but you have to remember , it is only a game for them.
Beemer it took almost 13 years for my ex to take me to the cleaners but thats the way in most places where you have had kids and they stay in custody of the mum ( with the father getting limited visiting rights/contact )..the courts will award most of the joint marriage assets to the ex-wife with kids in a divorce and the man has to restart his life with precious little..at least my first and only marriage lasted 12 years with a foreign girl, its a long time.
I have vowed to myself, divorce and the pain and mess that go with it, shall not happen again!
This is why the need to be extra careful and not run blindly into marriages.
I think you need to be more careful with foreign girls. The time constraints put on you under a fiance visa to marry her quickly ( 3 months is a very short time to decide to marry any girl..you don't really know her in that time ) before she is kicked from your country results in too many "shot gun weddings" and "bloody disasters" in break-ups down the track.
There is no easy way to do this. You must weigh up the pros and cons.Its risky but life is unpredictable.
For myself, divorce was costly financially but I did get a better deal on child contact than a lot of men here...21% shared full time care of them which amounts to almost 3 months out of every year under my care full-time, granted by the family court and because the ex was a bitch over kids contact, most of my family court costs were awarded against her as she had the assets and she had to take a loan over the house in the form of a caveat on the title, so when she sells it, the Government will recover legal aid costs of $20,000 plus interest at 12% p.a all because she was an unreasonable human being and wanted to deprive me of my kids in some form of sick revenge..there is some justice.
Also, because of my health and financial situation, 3 years ago, I was given a 3 bedroom Government house under the family crisis housing program on low rent for life so I had appropriate accomodation to exercise contact with my kids as it was ordered by the family court...there is some justice!
I am not going to buy another house, so another women can take it off me..if I ever marry again and it goes south, I can kick her out of this house as I will always be the master tenant as far as government is concerned and the woman only a guest I can kick out..no woman will ever have housing rights here and I'm gonna get the vasectomy snip,Beemer so I can't make anymore kids before marrying again if it happens..this time some of my bases are covered.
But I am not gonna waste thousands of dollars on insincere, psycho head case, scammer FSU women!
Soory to hear your situation from divorce. It is diiferent here in California, many men do get custody of children, at least partially( up to half). That happened to me, I have 50% custody of my kids. I felt it was important that I be a big part of their lives. There are some guys that don't care and just fork out money and go have their fun.
I understand totally about not wanting to ever get divorced again. And these rules about having 90 days to decide such a lifechanging decision is insane. I think I am taking my time before the K-1 process to better know the girl and her family. Best time to ever know your girl is to see her when there is a crisis or things going wrong. Everybody can be sweet and cheerful and happy when things are going good but it is when problems come up that your girl's true nature comes out.
I am not getting sniped( ouch), I wouldn't mind having more kids, which is good if you are looking at a girl 30 or under. They all would like a family or how do they say...a strong family.
Wherever you go Aussie, girl is going to want you to be able to take care of her. Offer her more than what she has.
In regard to psycho's, I don't think there are many but I am sure Apal will be able to find every one of them.