While Russian women do have some cultural peculiarities that shape their character, their nationality alone is no guarantee that your marriage will or will not be successful. As with any relationship, creating a successful marriage will depend on your feelings towards each other as well as willingness to compromise and cooperate. If you truly love each other and want to make your relationship work, no amount of distance or cultural differences will interfere with your happiness.

Finding the woman, who is right for you, starts, first of all, with a realistic understanding of the situation and your expectations. Yes, it is true - there are some women who are interested only in getting out of the country and having an American passport. If you are in your 60s, have health problems, and lead an average life, your dreams of marrying a gorgeous 18-20 year-old Russian girl will most likely lead to disappointment and you will simply be setting yourself up as a target for scammers. Russian women are also not interested in finding a man with handicap or someone for whom they will have to devote all their time. Even if you are an ordinary, financially stable, secure man, it is not a guarantee that you will not encounter a woman who wants to use you.

However, it is also true that there are many genuine Russian women looking for a man with whom they can create a family, they are looking for a husband who would be honest, reliable, stable, and caring. Such women are not interested in marrying someone only to divorce in a few years, and if they have a genuine interest for you, they will put forth efforts to resolve any problems and find a way to make a relationship work.

Naturally, there are certain peculiarities of dating through an online agency. Communication through agencies (e-mails, letters, phone, etc) creates an illusion of personal contact and does not allow the partners to get to know each other as well as with regular dating. Since most communication is carried out at distance, it is very easy for both partners to put their best foot forward and mask their negative qualities. Communicating without a face-to-face contact can speed up establishing a sense of honesty and trust because partners can share and discuss many subjects that they might not be comfortable discussing in person. Since such communication is rarely short before meeting and dating in person, it can create a delusion of stability in the relationship.

Looking closely, partners are still relatively strangers; a personal meeting will be an important stage in confirming or disproving their attraction for each other. However, even with relatively frequent visits, once the couple marries, they will still hardly know each other, so making such a marriage work will take ability to compromise and get along from both parties, and it will not be the lady's origin, but rather her personal qualities that will make or break the relationship.

Nevertheless, such an outlook on the international dating does not mean that such relationships are doomed. A positive stereotype, created around Russian girls, plays an important part in shaping perception of agencies and women themselves in the way they present themselves. It helps them to focus in on positive qualities that Russian women exhibit. All of us perform certain roles during our lives, and when we play a role for a long time, eventually it becomes natural to act that way on a regular basis. So, when a woman plays a role of a good partner for a while, she changes and grows to be a wonderful wife in the relationship.

Taking into consideration everything said above, getting married to a Russian woman has a very good chance to succeed and turn into a perfectly stable, secure life-long relationship. Honesty, happiness, devotion, loyalty, and care continue to be essential qualities of any relationship - no matter the distance, nationality, or age difference.