Favorite Pictures in Russia

[slim 1,523]

Guys, (and gals)

Great advice on here. No time to post today although I did read it all. I'll reply tomorrow.

And now I sure wish I had some Man Chocolate!

[KGSodie 0]

Guys, (and gals)

Great advice on here. No time to post today although I did read it all. I'll reply tomorrow.

And now I sure wish I had some Man Chocolate!

I'm sure there's a good joke here somewhere, centered around the phrase 'Man Chocolate' - but I will resist....

[Buck and Natalia 0]

Guys, (and gals)

Great advice on here. No time to post today although I did read it all. I'll reply tomorrow.

And now I sure wish I had some Man Chocolate!

I'm sure there's a good joke here somewhere, centered around the phrase 'Man Chocolate' - but I will resist....

Don't really know what Man Chocolate is. However, my kids sometimes refer to something as Gorilla Chocolate after observing a particularly disgusting display of animal behavior at the local zoo. I hope it's not related...........

[visaveteran1 33]

I just returned from 26 days in Siberia with my wife. I found this thread quite something...many great photos..anecdotal stories about wives...Americanization issues...and so forth. Having just returned i have some "energy" about the posts concerning Russian wives transforming into American style slobs.

One thing that fascinates me about Nadia is seeing her take 40 minutes to do her hair and make-up just to walk to the little local grocery store (or as she calls it...the super market.) Through my American eyes, I think it's a little crazy but also I really love it about her and other Russian women I have known. And she looks so darn good when i don't expect it! It is refreshing. It is very Russian. It is a gift. I don't won't to see that change. I won't encourage her to give that up. That's Russian style and grace and it has real value for me...so assimilation be damned.

My advice to American men with sexy and beautiful Russian wives or fiancees...Enjoy it. Embrace it. The Russian ladies need to learn English and get a job...let the assimilation end there. In my judgment if an American man becomes comfortable watching his Russian lady morph into a typical American woman (the ones we see clomping into Starbucks every morning), he's maybe afraid to let his beautiful wife look sexy and alluring in public. Maybe he wants to hide that part of her...that Russian sexy and erotic and stunningly beautiful quality that's so rare to find in the USA population of women. Maybe it's our American male problem...not theirs. Maybe we're jealous or insecure or maybe we don't want to pay for the clothes and make-up. But let's go back to the beginning...let's remember why we started to look for a Russian wife.

I've heard Russian women tell me Russian men marry like to marry ugly women and have beautiful lovers on the side. Let's not join that club. Let's encourage our Russian women to honor the Russian custom of looking good for us...even if only going to the store for bread.

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

Don't you try and get me in trouble with Alla now-!!!

Well mostly it's my favorite commercial because of the shot about 5 seconds in.

hahaha..... what are you going to do when Nadya's english improves and she goes back and starts reading your old posts? I think she is going to open a big can of whupass on you.

Kazan' Tiger, are you posting under my account again? You know I told you to stop posting about other women with my account!!

I have no idea what that video is about. Never seen it before in my life.

[Buck and Natalia 0]

I just returned from 26 days in Siberia with my wife. I found this thread quite something...many great photos..anecdotal stories about wives...Americanization issues...and so forth. Having just returned i have some "energy" about the posts concerning Russian wives transforming into American style slobs.

One thing that fascinates me about Nadia is seeing her take 40 minutes to do her hair and make-up just to walk to the little local grocery store (or as she calls it...the super market.) Through my American eyes, I think it's a little crazy but also I really love it about her and other Russian women I have known. And she looks so darn good when i don't expect it! It is refreshing. It is very Russian. It is a gift. I don't won't to see that change. I won't encourage her to give that up. That's Russian style and grace and it has real value for me...so assimilation be damned.

My advice to American men with sexy and beautiful Russian wives or fiancees...Enjoy it. Embrace it. The Russian ladies need to learn English and get a job...let the assimilation end there. In my judgment if an American man becomes comfortable watching his Russian lady morph into a typical American woman (the ones we see clomping into Starbucks every morning), he's maybe afraid to let his beautiful wife look sexy and alluring in public. Maybe he wants to hide that part of her...that Russian sexy and erotic and stunningly beautiful quality that's so rare to find in the USA population of women. Maybe it's our American male problem...not theirs. Maybe we're jealous or insecure or maybe we don't want to pay for the clothes and make-up. But let's go back to the beginning...let's remember why we started to look for a Russian wife.

I've heard Russian women tell me Russian men marry like to marry ugly women and have beautiful lovers on the side. Let's not join that club. Let's encourage our Russian women to honor the Russian custom of looking good for us...even if only going to the store for bread.

Thank you for your insight. Beautifully put. I will remember your words when Natalia arrives next month.

[mox 298]

It is refreshing. It is very Russian. It is a gift. I don't won't to see that change. I won't encourage her to give that up. That's Russian style and grace and it has real value for me...so assimilation be damned.

Word.

My advice to American men with sexy and beautiful Russian wives or fiancees...Enjoy it. Embrace it. The Russian ladies need to learn English and get a job...let the assimilation end there. In my judgment if an American man becomes comfortable watching his Russian lady morph into a typical American woman (the ones we see clomping into Starbucks every morning), he's maybe afraid to let his beautiful wife look sexy and alluring in public. Maybe he wants to hide that part of her...that Russian sexy and erotic and stunningly beautiful quality that's so rare to find in the USA population of women. Maybe it's our American male problem...not theirs. Maybe we're jealous or insecure or maybe we don't want to pay for the clothes and make-up. But let's go back to the beginning...let's remember why we started to look for a Russian wife.

After separating from my ex-wite, it came out that she'd had multiple affairs at different times during our marriage. This has left me somewhat scarred, and I will admit that there's a little part of me that is going to have a hard time dealing with the attention I know my SO is going to get. I trust her implicitly, but the scar tissue is still there. It's something I'll have to deal with. But I do wholeheartedly agree with you. I enjoy that she takes the time to look her best, and it makes me happy that it makes her happy.

Don't you try and get me in trouble with Alla now-!!!

Sorry Jefferey, but I'm more afraid of me getting in trouble with Nadya than I am of you getting in trouble with Alla.

Edited February 14, 2008 by mox

[KGSodie 0]

I didn't actually look for a Russian wife - only someone I could love that would love me. I started in the USA and then widened my search. The site I found my Natasha on was actually dedicated primarily to Asian women, and Natasha was one of only a very small number of Russian profiles there (maybe 6 in total). But I do agree that I NEVER desire that she lose her Russian heritage, roots, or attitude. I think it is perfectly possible (and DESIRABLE) that she acclimatize to the USA while retaining her Russian essence. Heck, no more shorts and flip-flops for me either when I run to the store! I'll NEVER look as good as my Natasha, but when we go out in public we'll be a matched pair.

[peejay 327]

I didn't actually look for a Russian wife - only someone I could love that would love me. I started in the USA and then widened my search. The site I found my Natasha on was actually dedicated primarily to Asian women, and Natasha was one of only a very small number of Russian profiles there (maybe 6 in total). But I do agree that I NEVER desire that she lose her Russian heritage, roots, or attitude. I think it is perfectly possible (and DESIRABLE) that she acclimatize to the USA while retaining her Russian essence. Heck, no more shorts and flip-flops for me either when I run to the store! I'll NEVER look as good as my Natasha, but when we go out in public we'll be a matched pair.

You are a better man than me.

My wife sometimes dresses to the nines when we go grocery shopping, but I refuse to be shamed into dressing up to go to Walmart. Four years of marriage and she's still with me. So I guess I'm not a total zero.

[slim 1,523]

I've gotta go with peejay on this one. She can keep her dressing up, but I'm American, and also male, so naturally, shorts and flip flops for me. She does her best to shame me though! Funny you put it like that because that's exactly how she does too; "You don't even have shame because you looks like bumzh? You have holes in your shirt and not even iron your shorts... and what is on your feet? It's tapochki? Pi**ets."

I don't think anyone wants their wife/girlfriend to stop looking so nice, it's that we don't want her to have to look so nice all the time. Whether my wife gets all dolled up or not, she's still going to be the best looking woman at the grocery store. I know she's hot, that's one of the reasons I married her. But I don't need to hear it every time we go somewhere. "I must makes my looks nice because we go outside of home." Yeah, like the stockboy cares that you took the time to do your hair while you picked up that box of tampons.

And not to ressurect the past posts (because we're obviously past that now, there are even some pictures on this thread again!) but it seems what I need to do personally is just get out more. I have a very, very small circle of friends (like, we can all fit in a small car together) and go out only maybe once a quarter. I'm sure if we did more, we'd be more social, and that in turn could lead to her finding the friends and/or activities that she needs.

[KGSodie 0]

I've gotta go with peejay on this one. She can keep her dressing up, but I'm American, and also male, so naturally, shorts and flip flops for me. She does her best to shame me though! Funny you put it like that because that's exactly how she does too; "You don't even have shame because you looks like bumzh? You have holes in your shirt and not even iron your shorts... and what is on your feet? It's tapochki? Pi**ets."

I don't think anyone wants their wife/girlfriend to stop looking so nice, it's that we don't want her to have to look so nice all the time. Whether my wife gets all dolled up or not, she's still going to be the best looking woman at the grocery store. I know she's hot, that's one of the reasons I married her. But I don't need to hear it every time we go somewhere. "I must makes my looks nice because we go outside of home." Yeah, like the stockboy cares that you took the time to do your hair while you picked up that box of tampons.

And not to ressurect the past posts (because we're obviously past that now, there are even some pictures on this thread again!) but it seems what I need to do personally is just get out more. I have a very, very small circle of friends (like, we can all fit in a small car together) and go out only maybe once a quarter. I'm sure if we did more, we'd be more social, and that in turn could lead to her finding the friends and/or activities that she needs.

Seems reasonable and logical to me, Slim. I'll go with quality of friends over quantity every day.

[Chuckles 0]

I agree with the quality over quantity thing for sure! But with the problems your wife is having, you need to expand. And also you are at that age, slim, where I found myself finding older people "aren't that bad" and shed my drinking buddies for friends that where interested in more then how much trouble we could get into on a friday night.

Anyway, I was the one who kinda dropped the downer about how the RW/AM couples we met here in Portland kinda sucked. Let me say that in some cases, both were aware that they were using each other, and they were fine with it. Not our kinda people, but it is their life, they can do what they want. Also, I don't see us as materalistic people, and lots of the RW/AM we ran into were. But there were a few that we found that we really related to and have very good relationships with, so it is worth keeping out there and meeting people (RW/AM) !!

In the about 2 and a half years I have read this forum, I would say the ratio of people "I don't like" or "scammers" to real, good, honest type people, that might get along with, is about 1 in 10, and the ratio I met in real life is about 8 in 10. Sure, people can be alot different then their online persona when you meet them in person, but maybe the 'bad' folks just don't hang out, or frequent this forum. Or maybe I am just sucking up to you guys nah!

Oh... and here is a picture.

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

Now that's the militsiya I know!

Oh... and here is a picture.

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

In an attempt to bring this thread back in order...

My militsiya photo

And Kazan' Train Station

[Buck and Natalia 0]

Oh... and here is a picture.

Nice police photo Chuckles............. but they are not all bad.