Damn...
My personnal thought : Don't get married. That way you won't lose everything in a divorce.
I heard that in Czechoslovakia (spelling ?) there was a saying about wedding because of the very high percentage of divorce : "Getting wed is signing a blank check." May be Pisis can confirm that ? Or may be it comes from an other country.
But anyway... That's not the point here.
Does anyone else here thinks that the "Russian bride" thing is something led by the Russian Mafia just like the stripper thing here ? May be you heard about it, a while back (under the "Chrétien's rule") the Federal gouvernment decided to give "free citizenship" to any female stripper from Eastern Europe wishing to move to Canada. (We were lacking of strippers back in the day.
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It ended up as a wave of teenage (15-17) kidnapping in countries of ex-USSR. The kidnapped teenagers were then given a fake passport ( saying that they were over 18 ), moved to Canada and then sold to Canadian pimps.
However, those (illegal) girls were not only working as strippers. They were also working as high-class escorts as well as street prostitutes.
When the gouvernment heard of that, they cancelled their "free citizenship program" for any newcommer, but left the citizenship to the ones already here.