US 50 Year Old Husband and Affair With a 22 Year Old Iraqi

Submitted by Kathleen (United States), Aug 11, 2007 at 12:31

You know I never thought I would be in this situation. Good marriage, loving husband, he would never do to me like others have done. He stated how he knew that the Iraqi women just want a US man to get them to the US and he was not that kind of guy. Well guess what. He comes home on leave from his job. He cracks up and admits. Oh he says he does not love her. It was a mistake and he will end it. She is now in Syria. Is he talking to her, who knows. He does not want a divorce. He is confused and does not know why.

I am so devasted and feel so lost and so used. Never have I ever been so not knowing if I will walk that morning from the bed to the kitchen . I want to trust him, but I have lost that as of now. I look for answers that I cannot find. I read and go over it in my head so much. What are the issues with getting her to the US? How hard? Does our government not put enough emphasis to these men what can happen to them? Do the Iraqi men care that a US man is having an affair with one of their women?

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