Posted on 11/07/2005 10:00:36 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- It took Natasha a day trip to Moscow to find the American husband she had dreamed of. It took the next six years to get out of the nightmare that followed. A music teacher from central Russia, she was one of 200 Russian women who patiently lined up at a Moscow restaurant to meet 10 American men at a gathering hosted by a mail-order bride agency. She spoke no English but immediately caught the eye of one of the men, 16 years her senior. He was handsome and said he wanted the same things she did: a loving family and children. They went to museums and the theater with an interpreter, and he started the paperwork to bring her to the United States as his wife. The fairy tale ended eight months later. Natasha, who would only be identified using a pseudonym, had barely set foot in the United States when her new husband began to abuse her sexually, disappeared for weeks at a stretch, threatened anyone who tried to befriend her and forced her to sign a post-nuptial agreement. Thrown out of their house after two years of abuse, Natasha was left to fend for herself in an unfamiliar country with minimal English skills and no legal documents to work. 'Expensive toy' "He told me I was the most expensive toy he ever bought," said Natasha,
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It's all in the timing. The investor who bought the Beanie Baby rights from the original designer/marketer for something similar to what your friend invested, way back before anybody had heard of them, made millions. The guy sensed that these silly things would catch on big if marketed properly, and he was right.
Turned out well for one, the other struck out.
I've known my share of "mail order brides" and studied the scene for a while. There is no difference in "abuse" or anything else between mail order marriages and domestic marriages. Anecdotes to prove any opinion can be found.
I've seen plenty of "abused" brides who were able to take responsibility for their own actions, including the action of disappearing or going to a "help" agency or whatever.
I've also seen victims who wallowed in their victimhood and did not want to take personal responsibility for their past, current or future actions.
Wasn't there a thread last week about an internet dating site for farmers?
I really want to make a battered versus plain crack here, but I'd probably get slammed for it.
Hardly all of these are symbolic marriages, many legitimate couples meet this way. (Though statistically it's not many, something like 9% of K-1 Visa holders return to their home country after a year).
That's actually better than average odds...
The crew ragged him mercilessly for months.
"'She spoke no English but immediately caught the eye of one of the men, 16 years her senior. He was handsome and said he wanted the same things she did:' That must have been an interesting conversation."
Everyone speaks "Body English".
I'll wager that the guys aren't always pigs.It's just like divorce here in this country.It's now SOP for a woman in a divorce case to claim spousal and/or child abuse. Even if it's not true,she has an important leg up in the case.
Same with Russian women.They come here,they claim abuse, they get an immediate green card (under current Federal law) and before you know it,she's got a green card,a welfare check and she's hooked up with a guy named Vladimir from Brighton Beach.
And there are a lot of very sucessful American males who have had it up to their keisters with the demands and whining of many succesful American women.
Agency translators will tell girls what they want to here to get cash out of the guy. (Usually the guy pays for gifts, translations, commisions on trips, and tickets, all of which they require the girl to go along with so they'll tell her a fairy tale, and how easy it will be for her to learn English, and often times she'll never know the guy has had 4 wives, is paying child support for 5 kids, and has served time for felonies.)
Hmmmmmm, Mail order brides . . . mail order brides.
Isn't that a Jeopardy! response under the category "Dumbest Things Women Do To Screw Up Their Lives"??
Hey, beanies are gonna make a comeback. They just HAVE to.
Sucker. I told you Pokemon was the smart investment.
Owl_Eagle
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
In general, especially with agencies, it really depends on what both are bringing to the table.
It's hereditary... my old man lost his shirt on Weebles.
sorry....
while I'm sure there are cases like this, a big percentage of russian mail order bride industry is run by the russian mob and many of the women are brought into the country so they can obtain greencards and work as prostitutes and strippers in the north east.
Some of these women are innocent and were just looking for a way out of the country, but easily fall into a trap by the Russian mob and married off to total scumbags or go to foreign countries beliving they are there for work, and end up forced into prostitution. But many are russian prostitutes without the american men even knowing to being with. THey were told they were school teachers or art students, etc...
Many of these men meet beautiful charming sweet russian women thinking they are getting wife and mother material.
They end up paying thousands of dollars to the "matchmaking services" which are just fronts run by the mob.
Soon after they arrive, the women start making the mans life a living hell and have no desire to act like wife and have children, and as soon as the time has past that they can qualify for citizenship without being married, they invent stories of abuse to be able to win as much money as possible in the divorce settlement to help pay off the debt/deals they have with the russian mob.
As the saying goes, buyer beware.
There, now you can do it.
If you follow this link Women looking for men you can see how a lot of lonely guys could easily fall for these women.
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