According to statistics, men marry for love more often, and women marry for some benefits. Does it say that women are more mercenary in relations? By no means. On the same statistics, if there is a choice before Russian women to marry for love or for money, they choose love. If love has not arisen, but there is a sympathy and the candidate in is full of every possible advantages we can, having analyzed all positive points of a potential marriage to accept the offer. So all gossip about insidiousness of the Russian women thinking about some benefits in marriage are a little exaggerated.
Russian women marriage can be based on respect, on successful sex, even on quiet indifference to each other under condition of skill to come to agreements. Therefore one shouldn't, poorly understanding subtleties of love (and who in general can understand it) and understanding it in different ways, with readiness to entitle almost any union a marriage "for love", in which man and woman do not lose human look at sorting - out relationships. By the way, you can't know it for sure: perhaps, they also are not so delicate alone, as on public?
So, to understand, whether the marriage of this or that couple is based on love, can hardly be possible. You see nobody can tell what is going on in another person's mind. But it is useful to look inside your own soul and to understand, whether your marriage was born on love.
In short, if love exists, in addition still mutual it is already big luck. To start family with love is useful by way of prospects. However in itself the love - is a thin and imperceptible thing and sometimes escapes suddenly.
What remains then? Might-have-been hopes for love. Such abrupt turn: if the person marries wittingly, he always has some gains in this matter.
Though, on the other hand, what is the difference what is the basis of a marriage if the spouses feel happy in it? Even by the laboratory analysis you will not determine how many deliberate aspiration to material enrichment in a marriage in each of spouses, how many interests in mutual relation the love occupies, how many falls to friendship and so on. If there is a mutual trust, the sincere desire to see, hear and perceive each other, then, perhaps, it is not meaningful to analyze, whether it's a marriage for love or of convenience.