Life / Child Adoption in Poland? [138]

2 friends have adopted children over the last couple of years and have been reasonably open about it. I think the problem could be with other children when they get to school - kids can be very cruel.

Love / Girl from Poland - how to bring her back [36]

Getting back to the original point - I married my Polish holiday girlfriend and have never regretted it, despite all the stresses and strains our enforced separations caused.

We were both students, her in Poland, me in England, but tried to meet up whenever possible - our longest separation was 12 months.

We met on holiday in France - and love blossomed.

Afterwards, I couldn't afford the exhorbitant airfares to Poland; she could to England (the black market exchange rate plus tickets sold to Poles in PLZ meant she could have come over every month) but she couldn't get UK visas (they picked on her because she didn't want to work illegally!).

Telephoning was a major problem because it went through the international operator. Once I got put through after 24 hours in a public phone box, only to find she'd gone out 5 minutes before! Another time, I got through to her only to discover she could hear me but I couldn't hear her. I kept up a monologue (in French, our common language) for 45 minutes!

Her letters to me arrived in 2 days because she would put UK stamps on them and give them to strangers in Okecie to post on arrival in England. My letters to her took 2-3 weeks, and were opened prior to delivery.

Anyone who's scared of making commitments is quite simply foolish. The advertising agencies hype up "freedom" as a lifestyle. What sort of freedom is that? Freedom to stay an overgrown teenager all your life then find out aged 30+ that you can't adapt to meet the strains of living with another person because you've grown stuck in your ways. Do you really want to be the oldest parent at school? Do you know both you and the woman in your life are going to be so super fertile that your advanced age will make no difference. Kids hatched from 35 year-old eggs have shorter, unhealthier lives by the way. Or are kids something you think's never going to happen to you ... you'll hit 45 and regret it bitterly and your life will look as empty as it really is. Are you going to be healthy all your life? Yes? Good. Then perhaps you don't need any back-up, ever, every man is an island, don't you know.

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [451]

But where do you have them tatooed?

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [451]

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Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [451]

Poles are very racially mixed, as are all humans.
In pre-history humans trekked the world both with seasonal migrations and long-term, long-distance movements.
You've got to bear in mind that humans didn't make it the Americas by hopping on a plane from Addis Adaba to LA - they walked to the Bering Strait about 18,000 years ago after spending 150,000 years elsewhere.

100% Polish - what does that mean? Racially, it means your racial mix may or may not be similar to people in your geographical area (do you really know your family 20 generations back?) - but that still means you are racially mixed, doesn't it? Let's face, you're probably part Albanian,Armernian, Georgian, Turkic, East Asian, Arab, south Asian and Native American as well as north European acclimatised to relatively sunless living - hence your pale skin to maximise vitamin D absorption.

If you like blondes, just say so - but go easy on the racial stuff, it really has been debunked by advances in mitchondrial DNA testing.