Hi ! My name is Anfisa. It is an ancient Greek name, which literally means "blossoming". I actually prefer communicating with real people to writing profiles, but I think I'd better give some sort of introduction so sit back and relax for a few minutes and I'll begin...

My name is Anfisa. I was born on November, 25, 1979. I'm 28 now. I have higher education (I finished Teacher's Training Coleege), I am a teacher by profession but at present I work as a secretary for one of the companies in Naberezhnye Chelny (Tatarstan Republic, Russia). I
can speak English not so much but enough to be able to talk on the phone. There is so much about me you will enjoy learning on a very personal level.

Letters are a wonderful way to learn about a person for a while, but nothing can substitute for a personal meeting and touching and intimate talks.

I am person who is happy with my life now. I would like someone to share it with and create a family with but all good things come to those who wait and are patient! I like myself and other people seem to like me also... People often say that I'm lovely (lol). I am also often told that I have a great sense of humor, I believe that I have the ability to make people smile and feel good about themselves. Not everyone obviously, but it is always nice when it happens! What else... I am a caring and honest person. I like socializing but I also like my own space.

People close to me would agree that I am responsible, sincere, kind, loving and loyal. Fidelity and trust are very important to me. I guess honesty is also one of the most important qualities and also the ability to forgive many smaller shortcomings to a really loyal and honest man. I
don't want only to take, but to give also, successful relationships are give and take exercising the fine art of compromise and communication. I'm definitely a one-man woman.

I believe a couple should function as a team in good times and bad times sharing all their thoughts, worries, hopes and aspirations. I think the closer people are the stronger they will be able to withstand whatever life throws at them.

I smile a lot when I'm around people who are optimistic, joyous and happy and if people who are not happy or sad are beside me they even start smiling . I'm quiet but with people I know well I enjoy talking . People who know me and my friends enjoy being around me. They say I'm a
nice, decent lady.

I sometimes have a child inside me but am serious when it is necessary. I love romance and special shared moments. I can be incredibly sensitive and sensual!

I am good with kids, I love their innocent outlook on life and on everything around them!

I enjoy all the beauty in nature, I like the outdoors and I believe there are many things you do I hope you will teach me about. I love traveling and learning more about other cultures, traditions and customs. I love taking pictures of different nice places and I like it when they have pictures of me taken.

I adore being by the coast. I'd love to go to some exotic island where there are a lot of palms and many other exotic plants and flowers, where the sea is crystal blue, where the sand is white and hot and I'd love to be there with my special man .

I do not have to say "wow" to know something is great! I worship the sun but like to feel rain on my face. I love sunsets, sunrises and a clear night starry sky.

I enjoy keeping myself fit (I am 169 cm tall and my weight is 53 kg) and attending fitness club.

I like to music of many types especially saxophone (Kenny G, Fausto Papetti), I enjoy reading, movies (I love comedies), dining out, etc.

I like cooking those dishes I can cook well: different kinds of soup, salads and meat things. My favorite special dish is a Ukrainian borsch and schi. When I was at school I used to cook soups when my father's friends came to visit him. When my Mom was not beside them they used to tell me that I cooked better than my Mom . Of course, I was pleased to hear it and next time I tried even harder to treat my family and friends to something delicious. By the way, I can make meat dumplings also and I believe my meat dumplings are delicious. My favorite food is salmon;
both fried or boiled.

I love keeping my home warm, clean and cozy.

I try to enjoy life to the fullest as much as possible while keeping an open mind and a positive attitude toward every situation that comes my way. I'm confident yet humble, I'm energetic, realistic, intelligent, wise and always strive to keep myself learning and improving in all aspects of my life. In a relationship I will always strive to be a best
friend, a great lover, and a loving partner.

Well... if you are still reading, I hope that is not too boring! It is a little boring doing it!

It's not easy to find a person you can live with but it's much harder to find the one you can't live without. To be able to find such a person you should take your chance and try. Did you read the book called "Alchemist"? If you did you should remember the advice of the Alchemist.
"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity."

Some women sit at home, waiting for luck to knock on their door. Obviously, I'm NOT this kind of woman! I know what I want and I don't give up that easily. I'm driven enough to know what I want and go after it!

I am a person driven from the heart. If you include honesty, feelings, good conversation and a sense of humor as your priorities there's a good chance we'll get on very well. It does not really matter where in the world you are, I would love to hear from you. And if a friendship becomes more... neither of us will hopefully be complaining then !

If love should come along then I sure won't complain but I am realistic enough to realize what love really is...

I do not want the illusion of happiness, love, faithfulness, and family life either. I am searching for true happiness in life. The kind of happiness and fulfillment that only comes from being with the person that you are supposed to be with.

I remember what I did dream about when I didn't even go to school yet. My friend and I used to sit on a small wooden bridge, look at the water, talk, make jokes, laugh and share our dreams with each other. We really enjoyed doing it! We talked about what husbands we would like to have in the future. You see I thought about it even when I was under 7 . I'm surprised to think about it now but it's true .

I am willing to Love, no matter what. No matter what. It is easy to sit in a chair and watch television about a love story. But it may not be so easy to actually be in a relationship, because those feelings are real. The disappointment and the joy, the agony and the ecstasy, the hope and the disappointment, the laughs and the pain. They are not actors that you watch and turn away from whenever you want. They are your husband and yourself. You can't just sit in a chair on the sidelines and watch
Life, but not live life. When you sit in a chair and watch a movie about a relationship, you don't want to actually experience a relationship. When you are actually living with a man and there is some tension you cannot just push the "OFF" button and make the relationship stop. Yin and Yang of life, the Good and the Bad, the Duality that is a part of
all life, and a part of EVERY life, yours and everyone.

I want to be in a relationship and have a man who I'll love and care for, I want to marry a man and to be with him day after day through the bad and through the good. I want to eat breakfast with my man, walk with him, call him just to hear his voice, and meet him at the front door
already smiling because I'm happy to see him and know he is my Everything, I want to be loved by my one and only man and to love him in so many ways. That's joy. That's love. That's something that EVERY woman prays to experience in her life.

Love is not just a feeling. Love is a behavior also. When you feel that rush, that sudden spurt of incredible joy, that fast heart beat, all that other passion, that is falling in love. But love is not just a feeling. Not real love. Real love is a consistent desire to extend yourself for the benefit of another person. Real love is deciding that
it won't always be good, but it doesn't matter, because enough is enough. Enough is as good as a feast. Real love is saying to yourself “This is enough."

Real love is a woman following her husband wherever he needs to go, making a true sacrifice for her man without constantly asking him to change his ways, but instead trying to change her own ways.

Where there is love, there will be an effort, because love is not about a feeling, it is about the effort, the behavior, the willingness to continue to love, even when love may be difficult. People who are IN love don't fall out of love when the relationship gets difficult. People who LOVE each other, on the other hand, may not always act very lovingly
toward each other, but they hang in there, they keep it going, because they KNOW that they are loved, truly loved, really loved, genuinely loved, and if they are just patient, if they just wait, the joy and the smiles and the passion and the love that makes the whole world go around will be back. Life is Yin and Yang. Dark and Light. Hot and Cold. Day and Night. Agony and Ecstasy. That is Life. It is also Love.

What I have been seeking in another is very simple, but it is so hard to find today in men anywhere. It is simply this a "Real Man" in the traditional historical sense that is desired by women here in Russia and other countries in the world.

A "Real Man" centers his life on the family and always puts it first, even before his career. If there is a lot of demand on a man's time because of his career so he needs to pay a lot of attention to it, that is okay, but at the same time he should not neglect his family. A "Real Man" is dependable, reliable, supportive, understanding and expects the same from his spouse and a Real Man accepts the best way for a man and a woman to become closer, work as a team is to talk with one another, share their thoughts, problems, joys and sorrows. A Real Man does not
hide from his problems by using drugs or drink to drown his sorrows, instead he faces those problems head on as a man (and all people should).

I want to be proud of my man because I can depend on him, not worry that he needs other women because he finds all the love, attention and devotion he needs at home and I know no matter where he goes he would always prefer for me to join him as he would miss me just as I would miss him when we are not together.

I do not ask you to be perfect (no one is) but if either of us is lacking in someway and we can improve ourselves, then we should help one another improve and we can do that in a nice way without being critical or disrespectful to one another about the way we are as people.

I believe there is a certain chemistry based upon appearance that is like a spark but finding a partner is a lot more than just some aspect of appearance. I think that attractiveness is subjective. I am sure that the attraction of a man and a woman goes beyond the obvious physical
attraction. Of course, the physical attraction must be there, and that is the first attraction a person sees in another. But a person can have beauty on the outside and be ugly on the inside. Both inside and out must go together, compliment each other. It is not difficult to see the outside beauty, but most are so consumed with seeing the outside, that they never go inside to see what a person really is, who they really are. There are many beautiful people in this world; some possess outward
beauty, some inward beauty. Few possess both. The person's heart and soul is what of great importance to me and are what I appreciate in people most of all. So, age, height and a pretty face are all just the states of mind. Give me your heart and I'll give you happiness, tenderness, consideration and care in return. If you will give me your
heart without holding anything back, I will gladly do the same.

A woman has a choice, just as a man does in what person they decide would make an ideal partner for them in life and a Real Man to me is not the finest physical specimen, the best looking, nor the richest. After all two people must live together so personality, honesty, reliability and affection/love between them grows out of that not just a person external appearance or what they own. If you are such a man then I will love you just for yourself, I need no other reason.

It is not up to me or to you to decide what to do in the future. It is up to us to decide that together because we need to understand from one another the priorities each of us assigns to certain things. However, if we take the time to talk about things as we should, then my first priority is to be supportive, loving and respectful of you in all ways.
Marriage is not just a 50-50% relationship as most people say. Sometimes it is a 60-40%, 70-30% or other percentage based on the time, place, need and circumstances where one person would need more or less support at any given time.

I see family life as a life of happiness and harmony. There will be good days, bad days, great days, and not so great ones. I believe a person should be willing to take them all as they come along. I was raised to believe that a family sticks together, supports each other and encourages each other. If you ever need encouragement, I'll be there for
you. A man and a woman in love turn a house into a home. I want to love and to be loved. I want to make my one and only man happy.

I would like to meet a nice, decent, reliable, educated man who is 30 - 45 years old and is capable of expressing true love. I dream of a kind, loving, respectable, loyal, responsible and a dependable man. I'll be happy with an energetic and enthusiastic man who has a good sense of
humor. I like it when a man enjoys keeping himself in decent physical condition and who is not indifferent to how he looks. The man I dream of is a good provider. I hope you are that man.

I hope you will be mature enough to love me just as I am. I can't help saying it again - I do not expect you to be perfect because nobody is. I will love you just as you are, with all his strengths and weaknesses. You will be very special in my eyes.

I am looking for love and happiness. Something important is missing in my life right now - a man I can love and care for in every way. It's not easy for a sensitive and delicate woman like me to be alone. I need to love and to be loved. I want to have a joyful and enduring marriage, and later to have a child.

I've held you close, but we've never embraced yet. I've seen the perfection in your soul, but I've never looked into your eyes. I know your emptiness, as my heart also awaits. I've felt the pain of your tears and the joy of your smile. I've known you all my life, yet we've never met. So I'll wait patiently for that glorious day when we finally
find each other. Two unique individuals are searching for that unexplainable link which will make their soul complete. So profound and mysterious that it may seem unattainable, yet the emotion is real. Is it possible the true challenge is not in the search but in knowing when you've found it.

I believe you will recognize me immediately since you know me from your dreams... I'm an elegant, slender and beautiful lady. I have a natural born class and I'm quite sophisticated without taking myself too serious... Sometimes I'm sportive or cozy relaxed...

My intelligent, smiling eyes are witnesses from my captivating personality... I have a rich culture and a noble life standard... My behavior is very feminine, kind and tender... because this is the "finishing touch of a real lady..."

Thank you for reading my profile! My dream is to meet you - a Real Man who will act accordingly when the time is right. I do not want to only write letters forever. I am not seeking a pen pal. I am seeking a husband. My man will come to visit me, to touch me, to enjoy me. He will never regret it.

Please, take the time to tell me about yourself. I know you have been waiting for me to do the very first step. Now it's your turn... Life is so short, let’s fill it with joy. Let's make it happier! Please write to me and you'll never regret it! I am looking forward to receiving your
letter !

posted on March 19, 2007

last updated on February 15, 2008