Mesmerized by the sights I see in this Forsaken Age 
So, back to relationships!
I was looking at a selection of beautiful Russian women. I wondered if I could find a Russian wife. IS this possible? Would it be true happiness and true love most of all?
I found this on craigslist.org during my research:
"I use craigslist alot but never thought to look in the Russian Section much less the personals. I must admit I was not surprised by the amount of Men listing ads looking for Russian woman however what surprised me after reading some of the ads is what little knowledge the men here have concerning finding a Russian wife.
First I will explain who I am. I am the owner of one of the largest (if not the largest) sites online for men to meet Russian Woman. I have been in this business for many years and have visited the Former Soviet Union over 50 times.
I am not going into detail about my site. I am not here to promote me or my business. My business is known and does not need for me to solicit it. However I have come here to offer some much needed advice to the many men I have seen posting listings here on craigslist.
First many of you must come to forget the Myth's around Russian Woman.
You must forget the term "Mail Order Bride" and realize that this was a term made long before the internet when men who wanted to meet Russian woman simply ordered a catalog of woman seeking husbands abroad. There was not other way to see the woman's profiles or photo's without it.
However this term even today makes many men think you can just go and pick a girl from her profile and she will become your wife if you pay the fee. This is so far from the truth.
Secondly Russian woman are not looking for a free pass to the USA. Nor are looking to Marry just to come to the USA. So throwing in your ad that you can help bring them to the USA is more insulting then anything else.
But lets get to the hard cold facts and realities.
98% of Russian people do not have computers. Much less the few times they manage access to one would ever know about craigslist. The odds of you having an honest Russian woman write to you through craigslist is a million to one. 99.9% of the time if you receive a reply to your ad it will be from a scammer and they person talking to you is not even a woman or much less a Russian woman.
Things to watch out for.
Long letters
Letters that never answer your questions
Letters containing the words "LOVE", "MISSED YOU", CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU" etc etc...
If the lady apears to be falling in love you are being scammed.
If you are asked for money in any way (For travel, phone calls, english lessons, for internet costs, ANYTHING) you are talking to a scammer.
Real Russian woman do not ask for money. If your lady says she needs help with money to come and visit you here is the USA RUN!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you know the odds of a Russian woman getting a VISA to the USA?????????
Lets just say it is almost impossible. Secondly any lady who needs to borrow money for her trip is definetly one who would be turned down for a visa. USA only gives visa's to those who have money. Own property, etc etc. The US wants to know she has too much to loose if she did not return home. This gives the US government the security she will return home from her trip. Guess what 99.9% of Russian woman do not meet the conditions to get any type of visa to USA.
These are the reasons marriage agencies are so popular. They have computers and the means for ladies to meet men.
I personally work with over 500 marriage agencies throughout the FSU. These agencies use my website to list their ladies to write to foreign men.
What I can also tell you is that the men searching for Russian Wives out numbers the ladies ten to one. These ladies have their choice of men. I know several ladies personally who have been proposed to over 500 times each....
These ladies are looking for love. No different then American Woman. They are not desperate. They are not trying to leave their country (only very small few in certain areas of russia such as siberia and so forth just want to leave however these woman never have access to computer so finding them is basically not going to happen)
You will have to visit them in person. Sometimes making several trips and staying for long time periods. Before she is comfortable with marriage. Also many have change of heart when it comes to them realizing they will have to leave their home and families. The bottom line is the only real relationships and marriages that come out of this is those who are truly in love.
99% of men that go on this quest do so and fail. Never finding a bride. They do so because they do not have the proper knowledge. They do so because they believed myth's and not the reality. These woman have countless men after them. Then they also still have the local men after them.
If you do not have the means to travel to the FSU and visit a lady in person. You are wasting your time. You cannot bring her here first. If you do not have twenty grand on hand you are waisting your time. This is the average cost of finding a Russian wife and bringing her to the USA. This covers communication, travel, visa expenses etc...
If you do not make a good income, own a home (own not rent) have health insurance, own a car, money in the bank, once again you are wasting your time. Without the following, even if you did go and visit the lady in person. the US will not aprove a K-1 visa (Fiance visa) unless you meet all their requirments that proves you can support her when she comes to the US.
This is not an easy road to take. Much less an easy one when you have no knowledge.
Also learn about Russian woman. Today they are a free society. Most woman int their twenty's there now grew up being free. This means that all those myths you have about Russian woman are not true. Most ladies in their twenty's are no different then American woman. They enjoy the attention of many men. They write to many men. They have men visiting them in person all the time. They are subject to change their minds about marriage. They are subject to have boyfriends locally. You may think you are the only one she writes but the truth is you are one of a hundred. If you are forty and she is twenty do not even think the marriage will work. They are more open to age difference however these marriages do not work. Russian woman become Americanized real fast. If she is twenty and living here. She will want to go out. She will meet guys her age, who trust me she will find to be more attractive then you and she will be gone.
I have seen far to many men go on this quest for a Russian wife just for these reasons. You want a trophy wife half your age. You have sex on your mind more then anything and not looking for a life partner. To those men you will fail and I personally feel you deserve what ever happens to you. I have seen far to many of you. If you are one looking for Russian wife because you want someone to control or take care of you. Those men will also fail. You too also deserve anything that happens to you. If you have intentions of treating a lady any different then you would an American Woman then there is no need for you to even look. Russian woman want to be an equal. Not a servant or a sex slave to you. If this is your intentions you will fail. But those who are really looking for love. I wish you the best. But learn the facts. Learn about Russian woman first. be prepared to go to Russia, or Ukraine. One guy here did give great advice. If you want to meet Russian woman then go visit their country.
If you cannot do this or do not have the means to do this. Then let the idea go and start dating American Woman again.
But I will tell you. You will have to visit her. US wants photo's of the two of you together before the will grant any K-1 vsia for her to come here.
Meetin Russian woman is no different then meeting American woman. There will be the whle dating process. This is not pick a face from a catalog and having her delivered to your front door."
That was the whole post. So now I realize how complicated this globla dating thing is.
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