This is a wonderful mail order brides topic. Mark in Texas, you said Victoria returned unneeded money to you in Warsaw and doesn't want you to buy her anything? Maybe the fact that she majored in Economics (or accounting) has something to do with that. I tend to think she is just one of those good mail order brides, a decent person and a rare find...congratulations. My ex-fiance, before I sent her back to Dnepropetrovsk, didn't get it. Nor did her two daughters, ages 15 and 21. In their mind, if they wanted it, I should buy it. If I said, "nyet" or "potom" they construed that I had "money problems". Finally, I decided to give Lana a weekly grocery/household allowance of $240 to manage as she deemed proper so that I would be insulated from the daily "khachu" (I want). She was delighted at this freedom and control, but soon the refrigerator was empty and her daughters' cosmetics cabinet was overflowing. Then I recalled what the youngest used to say when we were in a store and she saw something she wanted..."I won't eat for a week if you buy this for me!" Call me old fashioned, but I like to have a meal or two each day.
Mail order brides held ransom by their daughters?
I would end this post here but I'm afraid I've given the impression that her money management was the reason I decided to call off the mail order brides engagement and send them back. It wasn't that...I figured that could be ironed out. It was the almost non-stop quarreling between the daughters and between Lana and the girls that finally took it toll on me. The daughters were such hellions that they even tried to extort money from me the night before they left, threatening that I would have "big problems" if I did not give them $2,000. Putting Lana on that plane was one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do. She turned and looked back twice as she walked down the jetway. Ronnie
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