Arm chair MOB seekers and professional daters

[MarkInTx]

... in response to BTW, I never felt like I "settled&q..., posted by KenC on Jun 24, 2002

Ken, you married the first woman you met!

You barely dated anyone else at all!

Before the second trip, you had made your mind up...

Maybe you settled.... Aren't you eaten up at night wondering if you made the right decision???

Oh... wait... it just occurred to me that every night you are in bed with Lena...

I withdraw the question....

;-)

[KenC]

... in response to Really?, posted by MarkInTx on Jun 24, 2002

n/t

[MarkInTx]

... in response to DOG!  LOL  n/t, posted by KenC on Jun 24, 2002

asd

[MarkInTx]

... in response to Re: Re: Arm chair MOB seekers and profes..., posted by johnnydudeman on Jun 24, 2002

However, for the record...

Victoria was NOT the first person I met with.

You seem to feel vastly superior to me because you feel that I "settled."

That's an interesting sentiment, since you know absolutely nothing about my life outside of the seven days I wrote about in Kiev.

But, if it makes you feel better... go ahead...

[Charles]

... in response to Re: Re: Arm chair MOB seekers and profes..., posted by johnnydudeman on Jun 24, 2002

I must agree that there are a lot more men who have gone over there than in previous years.  While I agree with Patrick below that the vast majority of those who write are of the "armchair" variety, my personal observations of my visits over the past year to Ukraine correspond with those of yours.  In the big cities, it is not unusual to find AM with RW.  Moreover, most of your "competition" for these women comes not from the U.S. or Canada, but from other Western European countries (Germany, U.K., Netherlands) where it's a lot quicker to get there and in most cases you can get a visa for the girl just to visit you there which you can't do here.

[Charles]

... in response to Re: Re: Arm chair MOB seekers and profes..., posted by johnnydudeman on Jun 24, 2002

I must agree that there are a lot more men who have gone over there than in previous years.  While I agree with Patrick below that the vast majority of those who write are of the "armchair" variety, my personal observations of my visits over the past year to Ukraine correspond with those of yours.  In the big cities, it is not unusual to find AM with RW.  Moreover, most of your "competition" for these women comes not from the U.S. or Canada, but from other Western European countries (Germany, U.K., Netherlands) where it's a lot quicker to get there and in most cases you can get a visa for the girl just to visit you there which you can't do here.

[yoe]

... in response to Re: Re: Re: Arm chair MOB seekers and pr..., posted by Charles on Jun 24, 2002

there are very few AM that go over-in the hundereds
there are many more Europeans, Austrailians, Middle Easterners, and Isrealis. Some guys may see Americans when he is there just because he is familiar with this-he cannot see a true picture. After I began writing my wife-I met more Russians in 6 months than my entire life. does that mean that there was an influx of Russian came then. NO. I was just aware of that particular part of life. We have a tendancy to see what we wish to relate to.
The truth is much different that perception.
Joe

[Apk1]

... in response to Re: Re: Re: Arm chair MOB seekers and pr..., posted by Charles on Jun 24, 2002

My wife is helping a Russian girlfriend get her ad on some of the "free to post" internet sites...her frind is a 45 y.o. woman from Kaliningrad...and for the past few months has been recieving a few letters every day. My wife shadows the activity of the correspondence so she can help her friend with translations and advice. The letters that she is recieving are not from USA....mostly from England, Norway and Germany. I try and not get involved...and I tell my wife to not get too involved also...but to see some of these "impersonal" letters is quite the opposite of my letter writing to my wife.

What I find that is "funny" is the terrible writing skills of English men...the Germans are more into showing thier photographs of thier homes and the Norwegian letters are short and "just trolling" for a quick get togeather.

[MarkInTx]

... in response to Re: Re: Re: Re: Arm chair MOB seekers an..., posted by Apk1 on Jun 24, 2002


Yes, there are letters... and then there are letters, eh?

I helped a couple of guys send out their first letter a couple of times. Especially when I went to Brazil, because I had a computer translator program which supposedly did a pretty good job (I heard that from some of the ladies I wrote... they thought I spoke Portuguese!)

I was apalled at some of the banal letters the guys put together. I have no idea if they ever got a response...

But in this process, we all have ot do what feels natural and comfortable, so I resisted all temptations to rewrite their letters.

I did sometimes give them advice about how to phrase things so it would translate better, but that was it.

I would hope that if they got a reply that they would have spent more time on their second and third letters...

But, who knows?