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Posted: Saturday April 8th, 2006 04:12 am |
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Russian Women’s Love & Respect for Their Husbands…
In many Western cultures love & respect are said to go hand-in-hand in most cases. Typically the wife respects the husband only as much as she loves him. Yet, there is a distinction made between the two terms. Why is this? Is it true with RW?
I had a convo with a RM that had been married to both a RW and AW (not at the same time). He notes that RW don’t make a distinction between love & respect. He said that RW see it as a package deal. If one has the love of a RW then the respect is automatically implied to come with it.
Talking to several RW on the issue, the consensus appears to be different. It seems that love & respect are completely separate terms that are moderated by a third factor, money.
As we all know it is money that makes the world go round. For RW, since they are restricted in the income that they can make, rely heavily on a husband’s ability to bring home the bacon (OK that’s the BLT talking) to support the family. More money means more security and a bigger health family. And RW want a family. There is a huge drive for this.
With this in mind, we can develop a list of possible combinations of term conditions that can exist for a marriage:
LOVE RESPECT MONEY LIKELY RW MARRIED STATE
High High >Average Happy
High Low >Average Accepting
Low High >Average Accepting
Low Low A lot Tolerated
Of course it is best to have a marriage in the top condition. Still, I’m sure that there are many, perhaps most, WM/RW marriages that fall in middle two conditions.
Can this be reconciled with the RM’s opinion? Yes it can, to a degree. One can say that for a RW, the level of love and respect go hand-in-hand in half the cases (not by number, but by conditions).
If this is true, then there is a marked difference with how perhaps many RW view or think about their WM husbands. Something to keep in mind if one is thinking that all RW are essentially the same as any other woman on the planet.
Ronin
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