Opinions Please...

[Simoni]

You are correct. The errors are inconsistent with Russian language.

JR-- the profile is likely owned by a fat 50 year old man who lives in LA!   Great, huh?  You won't have to buy an air ticket to meet "her." LOL

[Doll]

I got an email from her this morning: you want to meet my friends in  los angeles????i never met you dont know u and you want to meet my friends?Huh?Huh?Huh?Huh?Huh???

She has a point.

[Faux Pas]

For me too please  Just wanted to look how much the other pictures are photoshoped.

Hmm hmmm speaking not about this case but in general... I wouldn't like the idea to bother my friends by a complete stranger whom I didn't even meet myself. They would think I am having problems with my head at least. Fortunately I don't have friends in LA... errr in America 

I agree. No way would I bother my friends to meet a stranger, to satisfy the stranger's curiosity. Likewise I wouldn't  care anything about meeting my pen pal's friends. Incidentally, there was an instance to meet one of my wife's friends while we waited on the K-1 as she was visiting a nearby city. Fortunately I had a conflict and wasn't asked to meet her. I'm not one to seek out or need other opinions. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

[Doll]

Haha, apparently it is perfectly OK for me to fly half way around the world to meet/marry someone I don't know and have never met but it's not OK for me to meet her friends and more importantly, their husbands.

It is OK and up to you of you fly half way around the world, but it is not OK to bother her friends at all. Especially their husbands.

[ECOCKS]

Hmmm, since we don't really know the flow between them it's sort of hard to second guess this one.

If I was talking about a serious relationship with a gal and was weeks or months away from meeting, I wouldn't think anything odd if she asked to meet some of my friends in Kyiv. Likewise, meeting hers in LA since she had talked about them before as a reason she was interested in living outside the country.

Responding with outrage may give a good clue to her personality though.

[facetrock]

Jollyrats, You knew all the answers to your questions before you even asked them. But hopping on a plane to Thailand to meet a very hot woman can be oh so tempting

[GQBlues]

Yeah, I suppose it would've been far more honorable for JR to hire a private investigator and spy on this woman, or stick a screaming lowjack up her butt than to ask for an opportunity to meet people she knows to better bridge the gap in their association...

Maybe this is just a simple case of differences in respective societies'. If I had friends living in the same city with someone I was interested in in Russia, I'd jump at the opportunity. Although I can see her point of apprehension as well, but to fly off the handle like she seem to display is quite another matter.

But what gets to me is she feels quite alright to invite a stranger to meet her on a foreign land without due caution knowing she knows very little about the man, but yet be too far guarded to have people she knows to meet with the same man on a platonic level in their city.

[JR]

Doll, you are clueless.

GQ, you said it far better than I could have. It does speak to personalitlies.

Here's what it says to me. "Meet me in Thailand where we'll screw our brains out. To the extent that we'll pass on getting to really know each other. But I won't let you get to know anything about me two weeks before we meet, hell...you might learn who I really am!"

If the situation were reversed and I had friends in Pitr I would be pushing like hell for them to meet. I guess it's a difference in personalities and life's destinations.

[Doll]

Sure! 
More than one person told you it was NOT polite to bug people.
If you are scared so much then  don't go and don't write. If something stops you then there is something wrong.

[JR]

Sure! 
More than one person told you it was NOT polite to bug people.
If you are scared so much then  don't go and don't write. If something stops you then there is something wrong.

Thank you for accentuating my point

[Doll]

Seriously, JR, thousands of men and women meet every day. There is some certain risk but you can tell if you trust the person right away. If it doesn't feel right, like in your case, then don't go.
I probably don't know young people anymore but to insist in going to that place so soon is not right.
I could be wrong.

[JR]

 What happened to the girl from Tashkent, JR?

Good question Mila, I was asking myself the same thing. I was beginning to doubt my earlier impressions.

I finally got through to her on the phone. She wasn't answering because she lost her job and didn't have the money to pay for time. Her demeanor was very subdued. We are both still interested in meeting but she suggested we wait until maybe summer when she'll be settled into a new position. I am going sooner rather than later...

[Shadow]

JR, by not giving up on her you have shown her that you are serious.
And her request to postpone a meeting until she is back on her feet shows that she is serious as well. Don't write her off yet.

[UTRO]

Sorry JR, but don't you see a resemblance in your situation, with that of Lagot's, in which you advise him............

Assamena said it all, move on )))

???  :noidea:

[JR]

Sorry JR, but don't you see a resemblance in your situation, with that of Lagot's, in which you advise him............

???  :noidea:

No truthfully I don't. She sent me her home address without my requesting it and she scolds me when I don't call her, which I do but rarely get through.

[rambler]

Well the picture is Hot but ...  I am not a member anymore so cant see the small ones  ---  Wife wouldn't like it ----  but c'mon does this not ring alarm bells??

"very GENEROUS men"  plural  men GENEROUS men?   

[mies]

You are correct. The errors are inconsistent with Russian language.

My impression is the same.