We found this posting on the RWG forum from "Smooth Operator", and had to share it. This is an excellent article to look at when looking for a Russian bride, or even just deciding to get into Russian dating.

Rule #2: Always Remember Rule #1

Oddly enough, people already know this, but after getting involved with a beautiful woman, men often forget about their first responsibility to themselves, and they either bend this rule or forget it completely because they are so whipped. You must get yourself into the habit of first questioning everything you do, why you do it, and abstaining from doing anything detrimental to your life. People who understand Rule #1 will certainly agree with me, but unless they apply it to themselves daily it becomes merely a pep-up until they see a blonde with large breasts walk by. Mastering this rule would almost seem to make you self-centered, but this is good. Being self-centered means you are constantly looking out for #1, and that means you have successfully mastered this rule.

We are all creatures of habit, and you know what your habits are. There are good habits and there are bad habits. The good habits are things you relentlessly do to improve your life either because you have consciously committed them to yourself, or because you instinctively know this already. People who maintain these good habits follow Rule #2, as they are constantly aware of self-improvement. As people become more aware of what is good for their lives, bad habits gradually disappear. One personal goal in life is to attain a strong mind, body and soul. Excel in all areas in your life, because having the total package would maximize your chances of success anywhere, whether you seek penetration, marriage, or whatever.

Rule #3: Never Lose Control Of Your Emotions

This is precisely what professional daters and gold diggers are hoping will happen to you. They prey on men who are so emotionally weak that they will open up their life savings for them. They will play games with you, even sleep with you, all to get more money and gifts from you. It's all a game, and they just want your money. They will not care if you commit suicide after they break your heart.

Men who lose control of their emotions often do stupid things in the name of love. They buy cars, large diamond rings, apartments, furs, and other material goods. This is the critical point of any mission for the professional dater, certainly one you need to be wary of. Once you lose control of your emotions, you've lost the game. You will become an ASM (Air Supply mutha) and a very easy target for gold diggers. Once you fall in love with her, you are at her mercy, and your fate becomes a roll of the dice. Hopefully for your sake your chips will not fall on a gold-digger or professional dater, because in that case you would be a sitting duck, and not even God can help you.

If you are a man in complete control of your emotions, you will never fall in love so easily. As strong as your feelings may be for her, if you know she is not good for you, you are staying with her because you are madly in love. I do not care how deep her throat is, dude, if I were you I wouldn't stay with her if she prove to be a financial and emotional drain. You may think that she is "the one and only one," but realize you are declaring that in an infatuated state of mind. Though euphoric, falling in love is a dangerous state of mind that lowers your defenses and leaves you extremely vulnerable. Never, ever get yourself into this vulnerable state of mind soon after you meet Sexy Olga.

Rule #4: Pay Yourself First

As a man, your primary financial expectation is to become richer every year. At the end of every calendar year, do an annual report on yourself. You should be richer in terms of net worth at the end of every year. You certainly do not want to be fifty years old, bankrupt, overweight, bald, alcoholic, and delivering pizzas during the day and working the graveyard shift at 7-Eleven as a convenience store clerk. Those losers should be put to sleep.

You should have a retirement account set up (e.g., 401k, IRA, Roth IRA, etc.), and you must contribute the maximum each year. Consider this an absolutely necessary expense, because after the contribution deadline, that is a contribution year forever gone, and you will regret it twenty or thirty years later after you compute the math on the money your account would have grown to had you made the contributions you missed. You should have a six-figure net worth by the time you are 35, and seven figures by the time you are 50.

Not surprisingly, every man's sense of worth is invariably attributed directly to his financial net worth. A man with a large bank account is more confident than a man living on hundreds of thousands of credit-card debt. Money gives men confidence in themselves, as a man's large net worth would be a testament to his will. Because wealthy men are savvy enough to control their money and not let money control them, the issues of a Russian woman--or any other woman for that matter--is nothing to worry about. Compare the dispositions of stalwart millionaires to those of impetuous bar rats and you will know exactly what I mean. The professional dater or green-card girl may get a couple thousand dollars from the determined millionaire, but he will recover very soon and just laugh about it; the impetuous bar rat will be more prone to give her his life savings "in the name of love," to later regret it and do nothing more than drink away his frustration and misery.

Do not be such a fool. Your money is your money, money you've worked hard for to build, and you must work hard to protect it as well. No woman should have any say or influence to your nest egg, and if any Russian woman suggests you should tap into it so you can buy her a car or an apartment, close your fist and punch her squarely on the nose. That money is yours, not hers, and do not believe the baloney that "it is now our money."

When all is said and done, if you follow this rule you can take solace for the fact that even if you crash and burn, you still came out ahead for the year. Set an easily attainable goal at the end of every year, and strive for it. Production before penetration is the goal, not penetration before production. You produce so you can prosper, and prosperity is the foundation of your inner strength. Prosperity means financial freedom, and that power is quite astonishing.