My mother is the person my father relies on. He wouldn’t be such a wonderful dad had she not stood by his side. Because it is the woman who makes a man the real man. There was a woman behind every legendary man. Think of Lord Nelson [...]]]> 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.

My mother is the person my father relies on. He wouldn’t be such a wonderful dad had she not stood by his side. Because it is the woman who makes a man the real man. There was a woman behind every legendary man. Think of Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, Petrarca and Laura, Buonaparte and Josephine, and other numerous examples. I am 41 and I know that I am yet to meet my Nelson.

I am a strong woman and was born to be by a strong man’s side. My friends tell me that I’m not only strong but also courageous, since not every woman in Russia has the guts to bear a child at 39 and without the father, too. My friends also say that with me they forget about their problems, worries and sorrows and start seeing the wonderful things in life and in people. Because our life is so wonderful. Look how happy a baby is to see a bug, a flower or a ray of sunlight. We were also babies once and could see the beauty. We’ve just forgotten that we are angels with a body of flesh and that every person is unique and Godlike.

We also have a cat named Sonya. She’s the best friend and playmate of my younger son Stepan. When he is crying, Sonya distracts him and all tears are forgotten. The cat is a great help to me, she’s the best nanny for Stepan. I have a lot of plants at home and Sonya likes to eat some of them. I dream about having a dog, too. Because dogs are the most reliable and loyal friends. A cat is independent, while a dog is loyal to its master. It’s so wonderful to come home and be greeted by your beloved pets.

In summer I often go with my children and my friends to spend some time by a lake. We have wonderful woods and lakes. We love to swim, to sit by a campfire at night, to go rollerblading in the summer and skiing in the winter. I try to have fun in my life. Because life is so short and it’s important to realise your potential fully.

Not To Have Lived Your Life In Vain

It happens in life that a door is shut right in front of your nose. But it’s important to remember that there are a lot of other doors which are waiting for you further along the road, and I’m ready to open each one of them, to try every key to them, but I won’t miss my own door.

I am grateful to my parents for always being by my side, always supporting me through the hard times. I am grateful to Fate for my children, for the health I’m enjoying, for the job I love and for the love that I’ve had in this life and the love which is still to come.

I wish you all to meet your wonderful better half. Because life is given to us to love and to be loved, to give each other smiles, laughter and joy. I wish you to live your life in such a way that at the end of it you can say, ‘Yes, I have things to remember and I have not lived my life in vain!’

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To me, my family means first of all my parents. My mother was a real Cossack girl from the Don river, one of those who were so skillfully described by Mikhail Sholokhov (a Nobel Prize winner) in his novel ‘And Quiet Flows the Don’. My father was from a family of Ukranian tanners, he came to the Don because of the great famine in the Ukraine in 1930’s. They had three children: myself, my sister and my brother. When I was a child, my grandmother Feodosiya also lived with us, she often told us about our great grandmother and great grandfather. Her stories were also full of warmth, jokes and humour even though their lives were not easy.

At the end of the 19th century, my great grandfather Nikolay had everything one could wish for. He [...]]]> 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.

My Family History

To me, my family means first of all my parents. My mother was a real Cossack girl from the Don river, one of those who were so skillfully described by Mikhail Sholokhov (a Nobel Prize winner) in his novel ‘And Quiet Flows the Don’. My father was from a family of Ukranian tanners, he came to the Don because of the great famine in the Ukraine in 1930’s. They had three children: myself, my sister and my brother. When I was a child, my grandmother Feodosiya also lived with us, she often told us about our great grandmother and great grandfather. Her stories were also full of warmth, jokes and humour even though their lives were not easy.

At the end of the 19th century, my great grandfather Nikolay had everything one could wish for. He was a Cossack, had a house, cattle, a big plot of land and was the father of five children. But his wife died while giving birth to their fifth child. At the funeral Nikolay got drunk, went outside, fell into a snowdrift and got frostbite, so that both his feet had to be amputated. The relatives and neighbours got tired of helping the big family and decided to find him a wife who would run the house. There was this young girl Sofia, whose father Moisei (a Jew who was the watchmaker of the village) died recently. And they all decided that Sofia should forget her Jewish roots, convert to Christianity and live like a proper Cossack girl.

She was baptised and brought to Nikolay’s house. The hungry children crowded around her and she rushed to the stove to cook something for them. Her cooking was very unusual but very tasty. Sofia became a good mother to the five children. People were saying that such a stepmother is better than some real mothers. In a year, in 1892, she bore a girl who was named Feodosia (Feo or Fenya for short) and who became my grandmother, the mother of my mother Nina. Sofia had no other children.

Feodosiya had dark curly hair and a pretty milk-white face with clear sky blue eyes, just like her father’s. She had angelic looks but a very mischievous character. I am very much like my mother and my grandmother in everything, both in looks and in character. I may be naïve in some things, but I’m always determined. Though, if one looks closer, I look like my father as well. It’s true that every person loves himself or herself and looks for the better half that is similar.

Having graduated from the military school in St. Petersburg, my grandfather Mikhail met the lively girl Feo at one of the parties (that was the way young people met before TAU2 was invented) and fell in love with her. They got married in 1910 and he was sent to serve in Ekaterinburg. They were given a house with a big plot of land, though not in the town itself, but in a village nearby where gold diggers lived. Cossacks were not allowed to dig for gold, but Feo was never the one to abide by the rules. Despite being almost permanently pregnant and nursing babies at the same time and against her husband’s orders, she got the necessary utensils and got to work. In the darkness of the night she dug hole after hole on their plot of land and covered them with wooden boards and tree branches for the day. She got lucky, and in two years she had panned quite a bit of gold. When they returned home, they sold the gold and bought a good house. My mother Nina was born there, in the Urals, in 1913, she was one of five children.

My family seemed to come right out of the Mark The Rich Man tale which my grandmother Feo used to tell us. Like any Christmas story, this tale had a sad beginning but a happy ending. Grandma wove the elements of all the Russian folk tales she knew into this story. We, the children, always listened to her with bated breath. Good always won the struggle against Evil, orphans found a family, hungry people were fed, freezing people were warmed up, sick people were cured and rich people were generous to those who were less fortunate. This tale has given me my role models for the rest of my life and taught me how people should be treated.

I learned to be a good host by watching my parents who always liked to invite people to our house even during the hard times — during the war and just after the war. They never got depressed, they had fun with their friends, sang songs and danced.

I am Very Proud of My Children

When I started my own family, I treated my husband and our children (two daughters and a son) the way I learned it in my kind and happy family when I was a child. Sometimes I had 30 guests come to a party at our place.

The revolution. Perestroika. The breakup of the Soviet Union… Unfortunately, Time takes away our loved ones… Now I live with my daughter Nina, who is the middle child.

My son Dmitry lives separately from us, but also in Rostov. He is a specialist in managing big companies. Unfortunately, the past year was a difficult one for our family, my son’s marriage broke up. My older daughter Natalya has been living in Saint Louis, USA, for almost 20 years. In 1992 she applied to 50 best universities of the USA and Great Britain. She was invited to Harvard, then she studied at the Washington University and got her doctorate in Law, worked as a lawyer and taught at the university. She married an American of German decent. I am very proud of my children, even though all of them are going through a hard time now.

What are my expectations on TAU2? Sometimes I think that it’s too late for me. It’s highly unlikely that I would meet a man with whom I could talk all night long like I used to talk with my late husband. But I have met some men on TAU2 whose interests are similar to my own, who want to write down their family history, like I have done. Now I want to publish my own book.

My daughter Nina is also registered on TAU2. I want her very much to find her better half here.

Whom am I proud of in my family? I’m proud of almost everyone, from my great grandfather and great grandmother to my children because all of my family members have found their own way in life, not an easy one, and based their family on loyalty, mutual honesty and sincerity.

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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.

I value friendship highly, I can accommodate the people around me without losing my dignity. Children are very fond of me, I can spend hours playing with them. I know a lot about child development, education, healthy habits, teaching English. I am a nice companion, reliable friend and the best mother for my child. I want to have more children. And I’m ready to start a family.

I love taking care of the people I love. And it doesn’t matter whether they are my parents, children or friends. I want to care for my beloved man, but where are you?

Every person has a family and those who don’t are dreaming about having one — to share joy and sorrow, to know that you’ll be given help in any situation… My family is the most valuable thing I have. I love my mother very much because she will always understand me and support me. I adore my sister and am very proud of her: she is a wonderful wife, an excellent mother [...]]]>

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.

I value friendship highly, I can accommodate the people around me without losing my dignity. Children are very fond of me, I can spend hours playing with them. I know a lot about child development, education, healthy habits, teaching English. I am a nice companion, reliable friend and the best mother for my child. I want to have more children. And I’m ready to start a family.

I love taking care of the people I love. And it doesn’t matter whether they are my parents, children or friends. I want to care for my beloved man, but where are you?

My Family

Every person has a family and those who don’t are dreaming about having one — to share joy and sorrow, to know that you’ll be given help in any situation… My family is the most valuable thing I have. I love my mother very much because she will always understand me and support me. I adore my sister and am very proud of her: she is a wonderful wife, an excellent mother of her children.

My parents are very happy people. They live all their lives together in harmony and love, respecting and understanding each other. I would also like to have such a life with my future husband. All my relatives on my father’s side of the family are workaholics, they are persistent in achieving their goals. My great great grandfather Afanasiy shook the hand of the tsar Nikolay himself. At the time he was serving in Moscow in Semenov’s regiment. His son Semen, my great grandfather, fell in the battle for Kursk, he was only 29 years old. I look like my forefathers a lot, but as for my personality traits, I’ve inherited them from my grandmother. My grandmother has a strong will and great endurance. It was the war that made her that way: my grandmother grew up in the besieged Leningrad.

My parents instilled the proper values in me. They always told me that I should respect not only myself, but also those around me. Since my little daughter Zlata came into my life, it’s become even better. We teach her to recite poems, she is very funny when singing or telling something. She makes up stories and things! That’s how wonderful my family is! And when I have my own family, I want it to be just as strong and harmonious, so that I would wake up feeling happy every day!

My Friends

I have a lot of friends and we see each other often. I prepare for the visits beforehand and think what I would do to make my friends happy: Shall I buy a gift? Shall I bake a pie? Or shall I make something with my own hands? But however great it is to visit with friends, there’s no place like home. Because home is the cosiest and calmest place in the whole world. Home is the gentle hand of mum and the strong hand of dad on my shoulder. Home is my own city and my own street where I know every little thing. It’s the parks, the museums and monuments, the old city and the newly built multi-storied buildings. It’s the chestnuts and bird cherry trees, the poplars and the aspens in my own yard.

Our Traditions

My family gets together often. For the New Year we bake special New Year pies with a surprise: one pie has a coin, another one is made salty and the third one is very sweet. While the whole family is gathered around the table and the clock is chiming midnight, everybody picks a pie from the whole lot of them piled on a dish. The one who gets the coin will be rich in the new year, the one who gets the salty pie will have hard life and the one who gets the sweet pie will have a merry and sweet year.

Every year on November 24 (this is my parents’ wedding anniversary) dad buys the biggest and ripest pineapple and our small but close-knit and happy family eats it. My parents have never told us why the pineapple is the main treat but my dad says that on this day he would always put a pineapple on the table even if he has to travel to the tropics to get it.

As soon as the spring comes, on the first warm weekend, we go to the woods. We make a bonfire and roast shashlik (shish kebab). We greet the arrival of spring, listen to birds singing and enjoy the fresh air. This tradition exists since I was born.

I Want To Wake Up Happy

I want to have a family in which everyone feels warm and cosy, where there’s peace, love and respect. It’s important for husband and wife to share the world-view, to learn how to find a compromise in difficult situations, to have common interests and hobbies. A family united by some common passion has a much more sturdy foundation than the one built on just the habit of co-habitation. The family traditions are also important: the pie recipe that goes back to great grandmother, the family celebrations, photographs and home videos.

And most importantly, one should understand that the close ones are near and are ready to share both joy and sorrow. Egotism kills the relationship. If the family members are not used to caring for each other, to sharing both good and bad times, to striving for mutual understanding, then it’s impossible to build a lasting relationship. Perhaps, there are no ideal families, because all of us have our own drawbacks and shortcomings, our own habits and opinions. But when people are striving for the ideal, it’s already a lot! It means that they have a real chance to achieve what they desire!

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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.

• First of all, tell about your family members, about the people who are dear to you, regardless of whether you live together or are separated by thousands of miles. Try to explain what ‘my family’ means to you.
• Do you keep in touch with your relatives? With which ones? Tell about your family gatherings. Do you have family traditions?
• Think of your ancestors. You must have someone in your family tree whom you are proud of. Tell about this person and why you respect him or her so much. Are you like your ancestor? In what ways?
• Tell about your friends. How often do you get together? What do you do? Do you prefer to visit your friends or to invite them to your place? What do you do when your friends come over? Do you have your own [...]]]> 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.

• First of all, tell about your family members, about the people who are dear to you, regardless of whether you live together or are separated by thousands of miles. Try to explain what ‘my family’ means to you.
• Do you keep in touch with your relatives? With which ones? Tell about your family gatherings. Do you have family traditions?
• Think of your ancestors. You must have someone in your family tree whom you are proud of. Tell about this person and why you respect him or her so much. Are you like your ancestor? In what ways?
• Tell about your friends. How often do you get together? What do you do? Do you prefer to visit your friends or to invite them to your place? What do you do when your friends come over? Do you have your own particular ways to have fun together?
• If you have pets, tell about them — they are also a part of your family, after all.
• Describe the ideal family you would like to have. What family members does it include? Who is the breadwinner? How are the chores divided between husband, wife and other family members? Which of your parents’ family traditions you would like to keep in your new family?

If you follow our guidelines, you will get a story about your family and friends, about the family traditions that you would like to keep in your new family, about your expectations of the future family life. Re-read your story and think whether it shows what kind of spouse you will be, what values will be the foundation of your future family life. Look through the family photo archive and pick the photos of your family members mentioned in your story: they will make a good illustration to the text. It would be good if the pictures show several generations of your family — together or separately. It would also be good if you and your family members are shown in a casual setting, for example, during a family celebration.

Right now you can think of your family: your parents, your grandparents, your great grandparents. Which one of them do you resemble — in appearance or character? Whose family values have you inherited? Which family traditions would you like to keep?

Send your story and photographs to blog@tau2.com. I will edit your story if necessary and then will send you the revised text for approval. If you like the revised version, your story will be published in My Family section of TAU2 Blog (blog.tau2.com) with a link to your profile.

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…

My family is my children. I have three children: two sons and a daughter. The older son and the daughter are already grown-up, independent people. They have got higher education, are working and have their own families. I live with my younger son Aleksei. He is 15 and goes to high school. I love my children and am proud of them.

I’m also proud of my relatives who had a difficult life full of hardship. My great-great-grandfather was from Czechoslovakia. Long ago, during the tsar rule, he fought for Russia serving in a Czech battalion. After the war he settled in the Crimea, in Simferopol, where my father’s family comes from. My mother’s mother was like the girl named Catherine from the play ‘Thunderstorm’ by Ostrovsky. She was born into a Cossack family. When she was 16, she was married off to a man [...]]]>

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…

My family is my children. I have three children: two sons and a daughter. The older son and the daughter are already grown-up, independent people. They have got higher education, are working and have their own families. I live with my younger son Aleksei. He is 15 and goes to high school. I love my children and am proud of them.

I’m also proud of my relatives who had a difficult life full of hardship. My great-great-grandfather was from Czechoslovakia. Long ago, during the tsar rule, he fought for Russia serving in a Czech battalion. After the war he settled in the Crimea, in Simferopol, where my father’s family comes from. My mother’s mother was like the girl named Catherine from the play ‘Thunderstorm’ by Ostrovsky. She was born into a Cossack family. When she was 16, she was married off to a man she didn’t love. She worked hard for her husband’s family and her mother-in-law was very harsh on her. After the revolution their family was dispossessed. My grandmother never said a word about her husband or any other relative until her death.

Our family has its traditions. Our favourite family holiday is the New Year. We start preparing for it well beforehand. We clean the house spotless, bake cakes and pies, cook all kinds of delicious food. And most importantly, we decorate a pretty live fir-tree. It has to be live because even the best artificial Christmas tree can’t replace the live aroma of the fir-tree which fills the whole house. This is a great event.

To be really happy I need a kindred soul with whom life would be easy and interesting, with whom I could share my deepest secrets, enojy the sunrise and create our world together.

To me, family is respecting the one I love and his interests, it’s trust, warmth in the relationship, attention to his needs, honesty and care. I dream about building the family in which love, mutual understanding, joy and happiness rule. A place where I can share everything, being sure of understanding and support. This is a journey to Paradise — together…

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My mother worked as a school teacher all her life, she taught Math. She is a very good teacher, with a God-given talent, as they say. My father served in the army, then worked as TV and radio sets repairman. My father knows everything about any technical device or cars. He is 71 now, but he’s very active, he has his own small business.

My daughter Inna will soon turn 24. She is very successful, she has a Bachelor’s degree and works for a famous Western company. Inna lives with her boyfriend, they are going to get married in 2012. They have a very tender relationship. Her boyfriend Anton is 31. I’m very glad that he is older than Inna. It’s very good for my daughter because he’s already a mature and serious person.

I live with my son Anton, he will soon turn 18. Anton studies at one of the best and most progressive universities in Russia. He was very keen to enter this particular university and put a lot of effort into achieving his [...]]]> 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.

My mother worked as a school teacher all her life, she taught Math. She is a very good teacher, with a God-given talent, as they say. My father served in the army, then worked as TV and radio sets repairman. My father knows everything about any technical device or cars. He is 71 now, but he’s very active, he has his own small business.

My daughter Inna will soon turn 24. She is very successful, she has a Bachelor’s degree and works for a famous Western company. Inna lives with her boyfriend, they are going to get married in 2012. They have a very tender relationship. Her boyfriend Anton is 31. I’m very glad that he is older than Inna. It’s very good for my daughter because he’s already a mature and serious person.

Soon orchids will bloom

I live with my son Anton, he will soon turn 18. Anton studies at one of the best and most progressive universities in Russia. He was very keen to enter this particular university and put a lot of effort into achieving his goal.

A fluffy cat named Fenya lives with us. She’s 12 years old. She is very willful, but very smart. We all love her very much. We have a lot of photos of our cat, there is even her portrait hanging on the wall. I love growing house plants. We have a lot of flowers at home. Soon roses and orchids will bloom.

My brother Aleksei and his family live in a country house. We often go to visit them: to talk, to get some fresh air, to make a barbeque, to play cards or lotto in the evening.

My daughter with her boyfriend come to visit us on weekends and we have family dinners together. We love to go to the theatre, movies or exhibitions together.

I Want To Give My Love

Family is the most important and valuable thing for every person. There is no one closer than your family members. In family life it’s very important to respect the opinion of another person even if you disagree sometimes. Mutual respect and mutual understanding in every thing are very important, as well as care and love, as this is what family is based on.

I would love to have a caring and loving man by my side, the man, to whom I could give my love, care and respect.

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My 43 year old brother Andrei lives separately with his wife Svetlana. They are expecting a child. I have a lot of cousins, we always support each other and are good friends. On weekends we all get together and have a barbecue: we have a small country cottage with a vegetable patch and a fruit garden. To get together at the country cottage is our family tradition.

I love to go to the sea. I often visit Turkey, it’s close to where I live and very comfortable. I have just returned from another vacation there with my child and my memories of the wonderful time there are still fresh. The sun, the palms, the sea — this is my element!

I take the relationship very seriously. I very much want to find my better half, it’s very important to me. I want to give my love, to care for my close ones and to be loved. I’m looking for the man who would be my shield, my support and just the most loved, the closest and the dearest person!

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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.

My father died a long time ago, I didn’t see him for thirty years, since I was three, as my parents were divorced. My mother is retired now, I will be very happy if she meets a worthy man and finds her happiness. My son is 17 now, he studies to become an auto mechanic. At his spare time he’s riding a bike with his friends.

Our pride is my grandfather Vyacheslav who fell for his country. He took part in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the rank of captain. He was in charge of a small group of soldiers — all that was left of their battalion, and for three days they held the line near Kamenetz-Podolski. He was killed the day before his military unit was disbanded. Posthumously, he was awarded the highest military award in the USSR, the Hero of the Soviet Union title. Stalin personally presented my late grandmother, as a widow of a military officer, with 70 hundred square metres of land. We don’t have family [...]]]> 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.

My father died a long time ago, I didn’t see him for thirty years, since I was three, as my parents were divorced. My mother is retired now, I will be very happy if she meets a worthy man and finds her happiness. My son is 17 now, he studies to become an auto mechanic. At his spare time he’s riding a bike with his friends.

Women-Lionesses and Their Pride

Our pride is my grandfather Vyacheslav who fell for his country. He took part in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the rank of captain. He was in charge of a small group of soldiers — all that was left of their battalion, and for three days they held the line near Kamenetz-Podolski. He was killed the day before his military unit was disbanded. Posthumously, he was awarded the highest military award in the USSR, the Hero of the Soviet Union title. Stalin personally presented my late grandmother, as a widow of a military officer, with 70 hundred square metres of land. We don’t have family traditions. We just give each other presents for holidays and birhdays and eat cake. We don’t approve of alcohol and cigarettes.

We have guests who come to visit: my friends, my mother’s friends and some neighbours (we live in a nine-storey apartment building). I have few friends, it’s very hard to find the true friend but I prefer quality to quantity: I don’t make friends just to have a lot of them.

In our family all females were born under the sign of Leo — even our cat Snezhka. She is just as proud and independent as her mistresses. She doesn’t snuggles up to just anybody, she can even hiss and strike out at a stranger. I am exactly the way that women born under the sign of Leo are supposed to be. When I read horoscopes, I feel like I was the one they studied to write that description.

I Will Make A Good Wife

There are no ideal people or ideal families. There are always some things that make life difficult. I would like to see a strong and independent man by my side. Mama’s boys should look somewhere else! The beloved of a woman-Lioness is a knight, a romantic, good looking, preferably tall, generous, loyal, ready to shower his woman with gifts and attention but leaving her some breathing space as well. The relationship with him is built on trust and mutual understanding. I will make a good wife: calm, kind, caring, ready to find a compromise. I will be loyal, honest and devoted if my husband is honest with me. This is the law for me: I hate betrayal! Though I can forgive my BELOVED one a lot.

I let the man to be the breadwinner. I will be happy to be a housewife, but if there’s a chance I would like to have my own little business — something to do with the animals, as I love them very much. In the family there should be equality. I won’t stand humiliations. If my husband has his own business and needs my help, I would be happy to do it. All family members should be helping each other.

There Should Be Only One Mistress In The House

I would like my mother to find her happiness as well. And, when leaving to join my future husband, I’ll be very upset to leave her alone! I would be very happy if my husband can solve this problem.

I would prefer to share the house only with my husband and my son and have all the other relatives living nearby. Because having two mistresses in one household inevitably leads to rows as they have different tastes and different habits. This leads to quarrels, fatigue, bad mood — and divorce. And I would love to find my man, my better half, and never part with him. I’m longing for warmth, peace in my soul and understanding.

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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.

Marina is quite independent, but I think that she still needs my attention and my support. She has passed the entrance examinations at the Architecture College. The classes have started and it’s very important to me that she shares her studies with me and tells about the interesting and difficult assignments that she gets. Sometimes she even asks for my advice on the best way to do her home assignment and I am very pleased with that. Hopefully, we will keep our close relationship and everything will be well between us.

My mother often visits us. She still lives in the Ukraine with my older brother and his family, but she visits us often. We have breakfast and dinner together. And this is very nice. My mother is 72, she lived through the Great Patriotic War. My mother has seven brothers and sisters, she was the youngest child in the family. Now they all have their own families, but they still keep in touch and help each other through [...]]]> 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.

Marina is quite independent, but I think that she still needs my attention and my support. She has passed the entrance examinations at the Architecture College. The classes have started and it’s very important to me that she shares her studies with me and tells about the interesting and difficult assignments that she gets. Sometimes she even asks for my advice on the best way to do her home assignment and I am very pleased with that. Hopefully, we will keep our close relationship and everything will be well between us.

My mother often visits us. She still lives in the Ukraine with my older brother and his family, but she visits us often. We have breakfast and dinner together. And this is very nice. My mother is 72, she lived through the Great Patriotic War. My mother has seven brothers and sisters, she was the youngest child in the family. Now they all have their own families, but they still keep in touch and help each other through hard times. I like this a lot.

I have a lot of friends, we go hiking and have a good time on the banks of Don or go to the seashore. We also often get together with the neighbours, I am lucky to have very good neighbours. They are just wonderful. It was their idea for me to register on TAU2.

I am a gentle, calm and easy going person. I like cooking, my borsch and meat dumplings are especially good. I love pets very much and have a cat.

I dream about meeting a loving man. So that we would care for each other, loved each other, were content and had a quiet family life and a cosy home. I would like to meet the man with whom I can wake up every morning feeling happy.

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This whole story sounds like a fairy tale… There were not many miracles like this one in my life! I am very grateful to you for your attention, care and the work you’ve done. I opened the webpage and couldn’t believe that all that is happening to me. It’s very nice, pleasant and touching. You’ve given me the wings — this is how I can describe my feelings now. And it doesn’t matter much whether my communication on the site will be successful and what it will lead to. I am communicating with people! It makes me happy and makes my life brighter. Over and over again, I want to say, Thank you all! You are the best!

I would love to share with you the photos of our most important family event. Violetta, Oleg and Music say hello to all of you and wish you all the best! Thank you for everything!

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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!

This whole story sounds like a fairy tale… There were not many miracles like this one in my life! I am very grateful to you for your attention, care and the work you’ve done. I opened the webpage and couldn’t believe that all that is happening to me. It’s very nice, pleasant and touching. You’ve given me the wings — this is how I can describe my feelings now. And it doesn’t matter much whether my communication on the site will be successful and what it will lead to. I am communicating with people! It makes me happy and makes my life brighter. Over and over again, I want to say, Thank you all! You are the best!

I would love to share with you the photos of our most important family event. Violetta, Oleg and Music say hello to all of you and wish you all the best! Thank you for everything!

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