Sunday, July 11, 2010

Western Marriages Gained Through Russian Brides Online Dating

By Lera Cupidonova

Many women across the world use the Internet to meet people in other countries. The Internet even helps people find international love matches. Women in Russia are no exception to this phenomenon. Russian brides online dating helps them find husbands in America, the U. K., and other Western countries.

American, British, and other Western husbands appeal to Russian women in part for the different lifestyle marriage to them can bring. Easy living is not characteristic of Russian society, especially for women. Women must adhere to patriarchal standards where men enjoy relative ease in comparison to the many duties expected of women. For example, a Russian woman must care for her household and family without much help, if any, from her male family members. In addition, she often must work long, hard hours at a job outside her home.

Russian unemployment rates for women are much higher than for men. As such, women may experience a lack of work more often than men. Russian women admittedly are often employed as teachers and doctors. However, these careers do not possess the respect as they do in America and other Western countries. These jobs also suffer from high termination and unemployment rates.

Faced with such difficult prospects, Russian young women are turning to the Internet to find husbands in overseas countries, especially Western countries, as a means to escape such a future. Internet romance sites designed to help match Russian women with Western men allow these women to advertise their beauty and talents in the hopes of attracting a potential suitor. Most of these sites stipulate that the woman must be at least eighteen years of age.

Once she has found a match, the woman then can anticipate his visiting her in her home country. The potential husband must apply for a visa, buy his airline tickets, and complete all of the necessary paperwork to be allowed into Russia as a visitor. Once the man has arrived, he and his Russian love interest get to know each other through social events sponsored by their particular Internet romance site. The potential husband may be in Russia for three or four days at one time, visiting the woman several times over the course of several months. After several visits and more time spent online getting to know each other, the couple often marries and the Russian woman moves to her husband's country to start her new life as his wife.

The new country may prove to be stressful and frightening at first, especially if the woman is not familiar with the English language. Her husband may be her only source of support. Yet, with improved understanding of her husband's country and language, she can begin to look forward to her new life and marriage, with comforts that perhaps could not have been available in her home country.

Some women, however, do not experience happiness, but rather suffer at the hands of their husbands. Domestic violence is a known plight of Russian women who marry and move to a new country. Their husbands wrongly tell them that they lack the support to escape their marriage. Even if they succeed in leaving, wives are threatened with deportation by their husbands.

The lifestyles of previous generations of women is avoided by Russian brides online dating. Marriage to a Westerner allows them the opportunity to experience a lifestyle not frequently found in Russian society. Their lives with their new husbands may grant them a happier future than if they had stayed in Russia.

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