The last week before the Great Fast coincided with pagan holiday of seeing off the winter and meeting of the spring, which was celebrated by all people of Europe in the pre-Christian period. The east Slavs called this holiday “Maslenitsa”. The rituals of Pancake Day, saved in the folk tradition up to our times, are associated with the pagan cults of ancestors, family relations and fecundity. The necessary dish of this Day is the pancakes – pagan symbol of the sun. It was considered, that the last week before the Great Fast should be brought in a funny way, because ahead there were 7 weeks of the strict behaviour and different limits. Every day of this week has some definite peculiarities and interesting customs...

Another way to evaluate whether family concerns about your marriage decision are valid or not is to know the seven danger signals of faulty mate selection. Here are the 7 warning signs that you are choosing the wrong mate:

You hear a lot about living a healthy lifestyle, but what does that mean? In general, a healthy person doesn't smoke, is at a healthy weight, eats healthy and exercises. Sounds simple, doesn't it? The trick to healthy living is making small changes...taking more steps, adding fruit to your cereal, having an extra glass of water...these are just a few ways you can start living healthy without drastic changes.

Dear Friends, Today I would like to publish a short post about an interesting dating statistics. Independent Russian dating experts found out that Ukrainian women are the most active mail order brides from the former Soviet Union looking for happiness abroad. 62,000 single beautiful women from Ukraine have a profile on different International dating sites!!!

You are probably wondering about how much you need to sleep in the day to feel good. I am no exception. Especially important this issue has become for me lately. Parents say they need to sleep 8 hours, in books written by seven, and recently saw on TV that Chinese scientists after a series of experiments and tests have found that sleeping only need 5.5-6 hours a day. But this topic is not so simple. Everything else depends on the activity during the day. So I decided to climb up on the internet to find a few more opinions on the matter and to conduct its own investigation of this matter.

Each person in your life to plant a tree, build a house and raise a child. In fact, a mysterious man system, but you can always find a way to solve any problem

88% of ladies think that flowers always will be the sign of romance. What is the best time to give and receive flowers?

Dear Friends, So, you’ve found an attractive Ukrainian girl on a dating site that you would like to know better. You write her an email but she doesn’t write back: why? Chances are your email was terrible, unnoticed, or both. But you can change that. Here are 5 ways to write the perfect first message:...

Each person has his own vocation. Vocation can not even be there is such a calling as "a vocation not have vocations." Someone is looking for his calling, someone has already found, and some even did not think about it.

Man and woman! We are so different and at the same time can we live one without each other? What do we need to find harmony, to learn to understand each other?

The Internet has changed our world view and attitude, and sometimes we have no idea how to get the information which interested us without the Internet.

Dear men, we start with the fourth point how to write the perfect first message to your Ukraine girl:...

Admiring someone from afar is easy; telling them that you find them beautiful can be incredibly difficult. If you’ve been looking for the perfect way to tell that special someone how you feel, here are some classic ways to share your feelings.

I can tell you some good tips for dating Ukrainian women. This is mainly because I am a Ukrainian woman (but you know this already ). Even though you are trying to find a perfect Ukrainian woman to date by going online, there are still rules that you must follow. In my opinion, these rules will help you a lot if you want to pursue dating one of these amazing women, and that includes me, too...

So you've found someone and things are heating up. In fact, you're starting to worry that you might be getting too fixated on your paramour. You felt an instant attraction, rushed into a relationship, and now feel constantly anxious and jealous. Is what you feel love or obsession? Read on to find out the difference.

Jealousy has long been viewed as an emotion that safeguards love. There are people who believe that the presence of jealousy in a relationship is an evidence of how much they care for someone, and how much they are cared for in return. However, this is also one of the primary factors why some relationships fail.

We are usually attracted to each other, but how can we understand the meaning and the extent of this attraction? The question is very simple… Here is my vision of it.

Women are often perplexed in their efforts to figure out what men really need to be happy and contented. At the end of the day, Eve's daughters simply shake their heads, shrug their shoulders, and tell themselves that men will always be a complex mystery. This shouldn't always be the case, however. Since the root of all misunderstandings between the opposite sexes is probably the fact that each party has their own misconceptions about each other, then it's time to set the facts straight. Once and for all, let us examine what men really expect from women.

Typical timid and shy guy would say: "There are lots of girls that I do know and see every-so-often. But I procrastinate to ask them out because I really don't know them that well. And the opportunity for approaching and having a chat with them would rarely ever present itself. The nicest girls who I'd like to go out with are in relationship or simply not interested."

Ukraine online dating becomes more and more popular all the time. Western men are looking for Ukrainian women and vice versa. The reasons for this are not always immediately clear. Here are some facts and myths about the world of Ukraine online dating.