Empowering Each Other | Happy Life with a Russian Wife - Part 2

A Wife with a Beater at the Tilt

admin | September 3, 2010

I would like to talk a little bit about the following unconscious contradiction fixed steadily in stereotypes.

Almost all women seek marriage. When they do not want to get married, they long to have meaningful relationships. I am no judge of men’s aspirations, but it seems they do not mind getting married either as far as the majority of them sooner or later says goodbye to bachelorship.

So we can conclude that family is a very attractive institution for those on this side of the barrier. As soon as you find yourself on the opposite side of it, you realize that it is a cell you would eagerly escape.

Stop Feeding It!

admin | August 23, 2010

Now, there it is – the DREADFUL SECRET. In each of us, there lives a very hungry creature. In each of us, with a very rare exception, and you are not the exception for sure. This creature might masquerade under different monikers, but its real name is Victim.

Most people feed this extremely insatiable creature without noticing it, and it grows to such an extent that only a cover remains from them.

The Money Question That Did Not Spoil Us

Liubov | August 12, 2010

This went on for six months. I carefully considered all costs without integrating budget items. I wanted to explore the quality of our life and to prove the necessity (or efficiency) of change having figures at hand. Six months later, I presented a financial report of all the colors of the rainbow, in which each budget item was calculated as a percentage from the total costs. And then something unexpected happened. My husband said, “Interesting. I would like to discuss it with you”… Our battles for rationality shifted into a discussion of efficiency, and it was a completely different level of relationship.

It’s We Who Choose How to Live

Liubov | August 6, 2010

Imagine that you are going to marry a bright, intelligent, decent and sensitive man with a great sense of humor, who, without a doubt, loves you. And then, when you arrive to his country, you meet just the opposite: a dark and closed person, who resists the slightest attempt of your intrusion into his life. In addition, you have neither driver’s license nor money (that is, you are absolutely dependent on him regarding the transportation and inhabitancy), you have no connections, your knowledge of the foreign language is pretty poor and you have no idea of what you could do to succeed in the new environment. This was my starting point of living here.

The Excellence Seeker and the Life Winner: What’s the Difference?

admin | June 23, 2010

An Excellence Seeker becomes a hostage of his or her own image. S/he wants to seem knowledgeable, skilful and successful. Therefore, after achieving success, s/he falls into the trap of worrying about keeping success and appearances of it instead of feeling successful, feeling worthy of success and adequate to it, and instead of being knowledgeable, skilful and successful.