January 31st, 2010 | 
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I have been married to a Russian lady for the past 10 years. Our marriage is great, I’m not complaining, she is a housewife and she takes very good care of me and our family. I honestly could write pages on everything she does for me, she is very traditional. The only problem, she is very high maintenance, she always has to wear expensive clothes, expensive jewelry, drives an expensive car, and honestly believes no other woman is better then her (but when it comes to sex, that might be true). I have never seen so much pride in a person, it does not affect our marriage, she does not act this way with me, but she turns her nose up to everyone else, and sometimes it’s just embarrassing. I’m known to have the "stuck up" wife. Is this something common with Russian women? or maybe just mine?
Also before anyone thinks it, no, shes not a mail order bride. I met her in Russia when I was there as a government contractor, and shes not a young girl. I’m 42 and shes 41.
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Tags: 10 years, expensive car, expensive clothes, expensive jewelry, government contractor, high maintenance, housewife, mail order bride, marriage, pride, quot, russia, russian lady, russian women, young girl
OMG. Shouldn’t you be just happy with that? I always thought all girls were like that. What did you expect? A slave-wife without anything human?? Is there any woman that would not love to say that she is much better than the others? And the expensive stuff is the proof.
I’d be happy the way things are and you have a normal wife if I were you, not complain.
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i am from germany and met quite a few women from russia. they seem to be very distant and snobby, not someone i could be friends with. i dont know if its pride or if its because they feel above anyone else.
like said, not a culture i ever got warm with.
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7 lines down: "It doesn’t affect our marriage"
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probably. dont know for sure, but that sounds like a russian persona. my dance teacher was from russia and she said the women there take pride in their looks…wear lots of makeup, high heels and carry themselves like models. so it makes sense that ur wife acts that way
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It might be an insecurity that she’s ‘different’… meaning she’s not American-born & bred…and feels like she has to prove herself.
It would be nice if ‘a woman’ befriended her, and looked past the materialism- to form a friendship she can trust.
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I’d return her. You keep the receipt?
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Mail order or not, the country she came from can be very harsh on women who understand you have to be strong to survive. Coming to America she likely feels she has risen above her "station" in life, even if you do not have a large income. I have met several mail order brides as well as women born and raised in Russia who met an American and married them. They have a strong pride in themselves and feel the need to prove they are better then others for whatever reason. It is possible they are trying to pretend to themselves that they have never seen hard times. I find this true in women who came from poor backgrounds and then either marry into money, or all of a sudden come into large sums of money. They tend to be a bit snobbish and want to show the world how much better they are. Example is my cousin-in-law. She is a poor Irish girl, married and came to America. When her husband really came into cash she all of a sudden was a major snob. She would always advertise how much she spent on that purse, or those pair of shoes or oh look at my husbands new toy (another expensive useless car.)
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