What does marrying a Foreigner Mean to Russian Women?
The majority of Russian ladies coming to the United States as brides and wives are intelligent women with good careers left behind in Russia. When they marry an American, they have to leave all what they had known in their home country: their relatives, acquaintances and cultural roots for the sake of the newly created union of two people. The woman’s decision to follow her future husband to his country is very serious indeed. Her fiancé is the only friend she has in that country. She thinks he is the only person she can rely on, although she might not know him very well. It is ok for Russians to be dependable on their environment, by the way, which is just another reason for women’s full trust in their future husbands as their sole providers and protectors. The greatest fear of a Russian bride moving to another country is that the man she depends on would be gone and she would have to return to Russia and start everything from scratch. Neither would she like to stay in an unknown coun
