My family is my two beloved sons: Maxim will soon turn 20 and Stepan is only a year and a half. I love my boys very much, they are wonderful. Maxim is a college student, he is the man of the family because the boys are growing up without a father. Maxim knows how to do all kinds of things: he can tile the bathroom walls, fix the electric cables in the house, repair shoes and furniture. It was my father, Maxim’s grandfather, who taught him all those skills. My father is the best in the world. He’s like the father to the boys. He not only helps me raise my sons, but also supports us financially. It’s very important as well. I work as a lab technician at the university and my salary is small, so without my father’s help I wouldn’t have been able to provide for my two children.

The history of my family is the story of people who were divided by distance or religion. The fate brought them together for a long and happy family life. And this is very much like people on TAU2 who are looking for their better half, except in the past there was no such excellent opportunity as using dating sites.

I love… I love the summer sunshine, the fresh sea breeze, the twinkling stars in the sky, the charming moonlight. I love to sit by a campfire in silence, listening to the dry firewood crackling in the flames, I love to look in the eyes of my close ones and smile at them. At this moment my heart is bursting with emotions. No, I’m not an ordinary person. Not everyone can share my feelings. I value friendship, never forgive betrayal, love my mum and believe in myself. My father is proud of me.

To many men and women, family and relatives are the most important thing in their lives. Most people pay attention to what a potential partner writes about himself or herself, what he or she tells about the family members. Telling about family traditions, family values helps make an impression of the person and how he or she will behave in marriage.

Now you have an opportunity to attract the attention of truly suitable potential partners to your profile. Just tell about the most important things in your life: your family and your expectations for the future family life.

Family is sacred, it’s the extension of one’s self, the extension through children. It’s not for nothing that the Russian word ‘family’ seems to be made of two words: ‘seven’ and ‘self’. But family is not just one’s continuation on the bodily level. There are many cases when blood relatives become blood enemies because they hold different opinions or beliefs. That’s why family is also a spiritual entity: the unity of interest, beliefs, ideas and actions. This is a place where one won’t be betrayed, where one can always count on a helping hand in hard times, where one can always get help…

To me, my family is my son Anton and my daughter Inna, my mother and father, my brother Aleksei and his wife Oksana and their two children, my niece Yulia and my nephew Andrei. These are my most important people, those who would always support me and help me out at hard times, those, with whom I would share my joy and to whose aid I would be the first one to come.

I’m living now with my 82 year old father and my 3 year old daughter Maria. Unfortunately, my beloved mother left us two years ago. We were very close with her, like best friends and I miss her very much. My daughter looks a lot like me, everyone says that she has my eyes: we both have blue eyes.

My family is my castle, my home front. There is no place for betrayal, hypocrisy or window dressing. It’s a place where one’s body and soul can rest, where one can just read a book, enjoy the company of the close ones or just kick one’s feet up.

At present my family consists of my mother Victoria, my son Roman, our cat Snezhka and myself. I’ve inherited some features from my mother, but I am a lot like my father, both in appearance and in character.

I was born and raised in the Ukraine, now I live in Russia. I have a small family, but I love all my family very much and am always glad to invite them for a visit.

I live with my daughter Marina, she is 19. I’m very blessed to have such a daughter, we understand each other perfectly. Sometimes the support of my child, of my little girl, is more valuable to me than all the treasures in the world.

After the publication of stories or interviews in the blog, their authors often send us very touching and positive letters. «This whole story sounds like a fairy tale… You’ve given me the wings» — this is what Olga from Minsk, who was featured in our My Family section, wrote to us. And she also shared her joy with us by telling about an event which was very important to all her family and friends: her daughter Violetta got married. Both mother and daughter look so happy on the photos!

When we meet someone for a serious relationship, we always try to find out more about this person’s family. To many men and women, family and relatives are the most important thing in life. The way of life and traditions of the family speak volumes about the person and his or her expectations for marriage.

To Olga, a music teacher from Minsk (Belarus), the ideal family means harmony in everything. That was the way her parents’ family (which was featured on several TV shows in Belarus) has always been…