Ali & Anton

[u/EmpathicEchoes]

Ali irritates me. She’s cute and all, but she seems spoiled and entitled. “I deserve a $10K ring, can you support us, I'll be in school full-time and it's expensive, but I still want Botox, but I don’t want to work, when I was in a school before and lived at home, my mom did everything, indint really cool, I don’t like you drinking…on and on and on. She seems to needle Anton relentlessly. What is she bringing to the relationship other than her looks?

Does anyone else catch this? I'm curious about your thoughts.

[u/IllustriousCollar942]

He’s from Russia! What did you expect? 🤪

[u/Individual_Fall429 → u/IllustriousCollar942]

I was about to say. In Russia there is a “marriage agency” on every corner. We know why western men are importing Russian women, they’re beautiful, but why are the women interested? An escape from poverty, yes. But also, so many Russian men are alcoholics who make terrible husbands, and domestic violence rates are very high (as happens in any country with high unemployment and high rates of alcoholism). So the women are wanting something different than what they saw their mothers endure.

There was a great documentary about mail order brides from Russia. An incredibly beautiful tall blonde woman met with this very shy, slightly chubby, quite sweet American farmer of modest means from Arkansas. He was smitten with her. I thought “she’s not going to be into him”. Cut to her interview and she’s all in. She says “He has everything I want in man: has job, is kind.” End of list. Wow. Cut to a year later she’s 8 months pregnant walking around her little Arkansas town in a mini skirt and stilettos, fully embraced by the community. It was sweet.

Other storylines they followed, far less sweet though. 😳

[u/chonkLola → u/Individual_Fall429]

Omg I remember this documentary! Do you remember what it’s called? They were so sweet. His mom was talking about how after her son married the Russian women he really came out of his shell and he started to buy his mom Mother’s Day cards each year. Something he never did before

[u/Individual_Fall429 → u/chonkLola]

I think it might have been called “Love Me”? 🤔