When you think of a Russian woman, the image of a stoic Baltic lady showing little emotion because of the harshness of life in Russia comes to mind. And publicly this is true. If you marry a Russian woman, she will be publicly reserved and demure. That adds to her charm, her desirability and gives her that mysterious and exotic quality that attracted you to seek out a foreign bride in the first place.

But, as the song says, behind closed doors it's another story. One word will describe your life with a Russian wife - passion. Now when you hear that word, one area of married life comes to mind and that is the bedroom. But passion is about more than just the bedroom. A Russian woman will bring that passion to everything she does in married life. To your Russian bride, her home and her marriage to you is top priority to her and everything she is about and does goes back to her deep desire to make a great home for you and the children you bear together.

But that passion also brings with it a fiery emotional system that will be explosive in lots of ways. That means there will never be a dull moment in your home when a Russian girl is your wife. You can't be afraid of tears when you have such a woman in your home. You will see her tears, her laughter, her possessiveness of you, her fierce "Mama Cougar" protectiveness of you, your home and your children and an intense desire to bring out the best in you.

A Russian woman will be the most feminine gal you will ever meet and that femininity will express itself into how she transforms your space into a real home and fills it with great cooking and lots of love and passion.

Russian women are also passionate in their beliefs and nobody will ever pose the challenge that a Russian bride will have no backbone. So your discussions will have the same fire and passion as your lovemaking and when there are disagreements, they will have the fury of a fireworks display. But this is one reason Russian marriages last a lifetime because when there is an issue in the marriage, she will confront it with fierce passion and you and your wife will hash it out with every ounce of energy in your body and in your soul. Nothing about you is unimportant to your Russian wife and she expects nothing but the best from you.

This is probably the best thing about having a passionate wife such as you will find in a Russian woman. Every man, deep down inside, looks for a woman that will find the best of him. There is a reason that behind every great man is a great woman because it is our wives that polish this rough stone called a man and turns him into a shining diamond.

You can expect to be challenged to be not just a man, but a prince and a king. You will literally become "a husband" in ways you may have never understood when your Russian bride begins to change you through her love and commitment to you.

This is a good thing. And when children enter your marriage, you will see that same passion and commitment to family in raising those little ones and making them children you and she will be proud to present to the world. These are values that are the best of what we expect from marriage. And when you find these values in a Russian woman, you will never want to let her go.