Katerina Brunot’s experience, retold on Salon by Shonna Milliken Humphrey as part of her piece on the still-thriving Russian mail-order bridal industry, is a horror story. Tom Seaview‘s marriage to a Russian woman is much closer to the fairy tale.
Subservient Russian women? Where?
My Russian bride and I recently celebrated our tenth wedding anniversary.
I didn’t meet her through a broker: my co-worker went to Russia to meet the woman he had found online, and I went with him… and fell for & married her translator. (They are happily married as well).
My wife has a law degree, and is much like the other Russian women I know in many ways. She is very feminine, but she is not the least bit subservient. She is smart, well-educated, extremely capable, and as tough as nails.
She can turn a few square feet of ground, some seeds, and some water into a steady supply of fresh herbs and vegetables. She can stretch a dollar half a mile. She can also part your hair with a .357 Magnum, and she would do exactly that to any man who tried to abuse her.
I am not intimidated by any this… and that’s why I married her.
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