That is how women are, not just Russian women
A while back I used to date my boss, who made 1. 3 to 1. 5 times as much as I did. Sometimes we went out for drinks and / or food with co-workers and being the boss, she often volunteered to pick up the bill. No, it was not deductible; it was out of her pocket, anywhere from 100 to 500 USD, and at least once per week. However, when she went out with me, only me, she expected me to pay for her.
On another case I lived with a woman who had 2 houses on her property. Actually, one 3 bedroom house, and a one bedroom apartment with a large garage. She rented the larger house to a family and we moved in for a few months into the smaller house. She actually wanted me to pay rent to her, and she wanted to charge me more than she was charging the family of strangers for the entire large house.
Third example: I was ready to make it permanent with a woman. Staying with her meant I had to work as a trader, which meant I could potentially make far more money than she did, but it would be more variable, and not guaranteed, at least at first. However, she just could not get used to the idea that she would be the one with the regular paycheque, or our steady source of income. Eventually, I had to get a regular job, which meant leaving her.
That was in the good US of A, with women who were well-educated, financially secure and supposedly feminists.
I currently live in eastern Europe now and usually make far more than the women I date. I do not mind paying but I do appreciate it when they at least makes me feel like we are working together. I really appreciate it when a woman quickly digs into her purse for loose change to avoid making me break another large bill. Or when she buys a few small items without asking for money. To me those are the keepers.
[QUOTE=Jake993; 1136659]A lot has been written about dating Russian women. They are a lot different from Western women in a lot ways so what I add in this post is not so much a new perspective on anything so much as a recap of an interesting conversation I had recently with a Russian woman. She's lived in Moscow for about 10 years but was born and raised in Siberia. So I guess that does not really make a Moskvitchka in the true sense but for the purpose of this discussion I think she can qualify. She's in her early 30's. A professional with a very good salary. Probably makes more money than 95% of Moscow women.
No, I'm not fucking her (yet) so it was a pretty candid conversation in her apartment over tea. We had gone out with a group of people (mostly colleagues) to this concert and several of us ended up at her apartment (let's call her Oksana) for tea. Everyone was gone except me and we chatted over one last pot of tea. It was an interesting conversation reflecting on her last boyfriend (Let's call him Boris). He wasn't Russian but British. Well, he was born and raised in Britain to Russian parents who emigrated. He's fluent in Russian so she decided she might get the best of both worlds.
She told me they went on vacation together to the tropics and that she left him after a few days and went to another island. I asked her why and she said because he treated her badly. After a lot of probing I found out that the source of the problem was that Boris insisted that she pay her fair share of the holiday. Just to be clear, they are both professionals earning about the same amount of money (truth be told I think she earns more).
I pressed her a bit on her logic and she said that the man HAS to pay. It's just the way it is. After all, he's just using her. Using her body, using her time, using her emotion and it's only 50:50 at best that he will even stick around so why SHOULDN'T he pay?
I think that comment speaks volumes about the mindset of your average Moscow girl these days.
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