Thread: Why I love (and hate) dating Russian men (article)

Here is the translation. In fact I never dated Russian men but I feel like that woman made special efforts to find such kind of men. Her experience looks quite exaggerated. What you like is what you get, no?

Originally Posted by it-ogo

Here is the translation. In fact I never dated Russian men but I feel like that woman made special efforts to find such kind of men. Her experience looks quite exaggerated. What you like is what you get, no?

I dunno... I loved some Russian guys with all my heart, but they could never accept me for who I am. To be with them, I would have to turn myself into a pretzel and I just couldn't do it... so I left Russia...

I don't think American guys are better... they don't try to change me as much and they are not as controlling, but on the other hand they are often not very romantic either.

I understood her frustrations.

A strange article. There are some things I agree, and there are way more things I strongly disagree. I am too lazy to provide detailed comments now. But the overall impression is the article is too exaggerated and is written by someone who hates men. It is just an impression the article gives me.

If you do not know Russian men at all, please do not believe that article!

Originally Posted by Боб Уайтман

A strange article. There are some things I agree, and there are way more things I strongly disagree. I am too lazy to provide detailed comments now. But the overall impression is the article is too exaggerated and is written by someone who hates men. It is just an impression the article gives me.

If you do not know Russian men at all, please do not believe that article!

I didn't get the impression that she "hates" men... I got the impression that she is frustrated, and hurt, and heartbroken and running out of hope.

Originally Posted by Deborski

I didn't get the impression that she "hates" men... I got the impression that she is frustrated, and hurt, and heartbroken and running out of hope.

What I got was that she's in search for what fits just for her, and she's analyzing all of her previous experiences to combine all their good sides into a perfect one, leaving out all the bad sides. She didn't sound pessimist enough to me. =))

Originally Posted by it-ogo

Here is the translation. In fact I never dated Russian men but I feel like that woman made special efforts to find such kind of men. Her experience looks quite exaggerated. What you like is what you get, no?

I agree -- she lives in the USA! Why is she trying to date Russian men? If she doesn't like them, then date regular Americans or some other nationality.

For the record: I read a very entertaining chronicle by a Finnish columnist, called "Dating the men of our neighbouring countries. She had dated men from Sweden, Estonia and Russia. While the "statistical sample" of her little survey wasn't large, she nevertheless made some observations that I thought were good --- and she used Finnish men as the norm.

She had ended up marrying the Russian guy and was really enjoying the super tight family bonds in his family. So she was saying that unlike with the other nationalities, she got a whole new family with this guy which was nice for her, an only child with only her mother living.

Not sure how typical that was. She also described the Russian guy as very independent, which she liked, macho and quite passionate (the last two seem to be the stereotype about Russian men). The guy she married actually lived in Finland though, so I am not sure how typical he was. Her one complaint about him was that he was a fitness fanatic.