Alright, I found out what was bothering her. She didn't come out and say directly, but she did tell me that it had to do with the money she gave me and that it was no big deal, and that's all that she was going to tell me. Anyway, we went out tonight and had a great time and I felt so much better knowing a little bit more about what was bothering her.

So after I got back home tonight, I googled about Russian women and their view of money, and I found out that Russian women find it very difficult to talk about money. It is not something they discuss openly and freely like we do in America, and it certainly has no gender responsibilty on who makes the money in the household, and how it's spent. It's just offensive to talk about and discuss in their culture.

So she's only been here for 9 months while living the rest of her earlier years in Russia, so I can understand now why she felt it to be very difficult to talk about; being the cultural differences and all.

It all boiled down to a cultural differerence and a cultural miscommunication about issues and circumstances. When she knew that I was struggling financially, she was compassionate enough to help out, but it was difficult to do so because she may have felt that I was too proud to take her money or something, which is why she slipped it in my pocket whilst me not knowing that she did so, and her feeling like she would have offended me. This is my analogy I came up with, and it seems to make sence now with a little education on the subject.