Здравствуйте (Hello)
This is literally the only word I have been able to pick up in my first two weeks in Russia.
Hopefully that changes over the next month.
I’m staying in small city in the south called Krasnodar. My friends were alarmed when I told them I was going to be without my husband for such a long period. Concerns were partially raised about my duty to my husband as a wife most were surrounding his inability to function in the household without me. It was the implication of the thought that bothered me the most. I felt the insinuation to be one of a submissive nature. You are a wife, so that automatically means you are your husband’s fulltime babysitter, somehow. You are a wife so that inevitably means you are the only one in the house who can operate the dishwasher.
